I think we all know that when you fall in love the emptiness kind of drifts away. So all that I'm saying is that when you fall in love like you guys the emptiness drifts away because you find something to live for, each other. And the way I've seen you two looking into each other's eyes all day long I can tell that you're going to live for each other for the rest of your lives. - Robbie Hart
Remember alcohol equals puke equals smelly mess equals no one likes you. - Robbie Hart
I don't think anyone could sing more than that kid. I think I saw a boot come out of him. - Robbie Hart
I feel like I'm doomed to wonder the planet alone forever. - Julia
And they can't drink without a fish. - Julia
You gotta get married before your hips start spreading and you get facial hair. - Julia's mom
I'm just trying to get someone to play with your ding-dong. - Sammy
Well I have a microphone and you don't, so you will listen to every damn word I have to say! - Robbie
You know it's funny. Some of us will never find true love. Like, take for instance... me. And I'm pretty sure that guy right there. And that lady with the sideburns. And basically everybody at table nine. But the worst thing is that me, fatty, sideburns lady, and the mutants at table nine, will never, ever find a way to better the situation because apparently, we have absolutely nothing to offer the opposite sex. - Robbie
Sir, one more outburst, I will strangle you with my microphone wire. - Robbie
Women got a thing about marriage. If you want to stay with them, eventually you're gonna have to marry them at some point. No big deal. There she is, the girl that finally beat me into submission. - Glenn
I think it's the little things that count. - Julia
The right one. I always just envisioned the right one being someone I can see myself growing old with. - Julia
Saturday, April 4, 2009
The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants
Carmen: I’d like to think that fate had a hand in what happened that summer. That it was the pants’ destiny to find us. Where they come from and why they chose us, well, that will always be a mystery. But perhaps that was part of their miracle, that they sensed in that moment how much we needed them, how much we needed some little bit of faith to hold onto, when it seemed like everything we believed in was about to slip away. But wait a minute, I’m getting ahead of myself. We’d been a foursome for as long as I could remember. In fact, we were a foursome before we were born. Our mothers met at a prenatal aerobic class. They really didn’t have anything in common, except their due dates. The first one out of the gate was Bridget. The rest of us followed within the week. Bridget liked to take charge. And you know what? Sometimes that worked in our favor. And that’s how it always was with us: give and take. But mostly give. We were there for each other to understand the things that no one else in the world could. There were some things we would never make sense of. And we were there for those too. We were there for the things we couldn’t face alone. Or the ones we didn’t want to face at all. Together, it was as if we formed one single, complete person. Wild, unstoppable Bridget. Shy and beautiful Lena. Tibby the rebel. And me, Carmen the writer. We were 16 and had never been apart and all that was about to change.
Priest: Grief is never an easy burden to bear. And as we mourn the loss of this beloved wife, mother and friend… it only make her choice that much more unfathomable. What measure of despair compels one to commit such an act? We can only take comfort in the face that she is in a better place now… than she found here among us.
Carmen: 1. Each sister is going to keep the pants for a week.
Tibby: 2. No picking your nose while wearing the pants.
Bridget: 3. When sending the pants, we should write a letter detailing the most exciting thing that has happened to us while wearing the pants.
Carmen: 4. When it happens and we re unite we will document it on the pants themselves
Lena: 5. Any removal of the pants must be done by the wearer herself
Carmen: 6. We will never ever wash the pants
Tibby: 7. No double cuffing. Double cuffing is tacky
Carmen: 8. Tucking your shirt and wearing a belt at the same time
Bridget: 9. You can never say you look fat while wearing the pants
Lena: 10. Pants = love.
Bridget: Love your sisters and love yourself
Lena's Yia Yia: We guard you like a jewel.
Tibby: Human existence at its lamest.
Lena: I’ve never known that kinda of faith. It makes me so sad that people like Kostas and Bridget who have lost everything can still be open to love while I, who have lost nothing, cannot.
Eric: I don’t know if I’ve ever seen anyone with that much intensity. Ever. You know it’s more than that. You scare the hell outta me.
Bridget: Single minded to a point of recklessness.
Bailey: You know what I like most about the stars? You look at them, all of them up there and you just know there’s gotta be something more than...
Tibby: Life?
Bailey: There has to be.
Tibby: Are you scared?
Bailey: Not of dying, really. It’s more that I’m afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I’m supposed to be to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I’m afraid of what I’ll miss.
Lena: Bridget just lights everything up. She makes everything more fun. And Carmen is brilliant, but she doesn't know it. And Tibby marches to her own drum. I’m kinda jealous of her. Because she knows who she is. I think I know who I wanna be.
Lena: All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way.
Kostas: Some people show off their beauty because they want the world to see it. Others try to hide their beauty because they want the world to see something else.
Carmen: And you know what, Lydia? Just forget about the dress. We can tell everybody that Carmen's Puerto Rican. And it never occurred to you she might be built differently. Or that, unlike you and your daughter, she has an ass that the tailor didn't have enough bolts of material to cover, or better yet, just tell everyone there is no Carmen. Carmen doesn't exist!
Carmen: And why are you giving me this hypocritical lecture about treating people decently when you walk around screaming, “Screw the world” because that’s easier than feeling something?
Tibby: She drives you crazy. We’ll be doing interviews, right? Talking to people, and she’ll just jump in out of nowhere and start asking these questions. She’ll ask them anything she wants about their lives, like she’s trying to get to know them or something.
Bridget: It happened just how I imagined it always would. So why do I feel this way, Lena? How can something that’s supposed to make you feel so complete end up leaving you so empty. I just wish so much I could talk to my mom. I need her and that scares me.
Tibby: Well, maybe sometimes it’s easier to be mad at the people you trust. Because you know they’ll always love you, no matter what.
Lena: Papou, I need to say something to you. You can pretend that you don't understand me, but I know you do. People have always said to me that I take after Yia Yia, that I have her face and her smile but what no one ever sees is that there’s this whole other part of me that is just like you. Quiet and stubborn and afraid of showing too much. And then I met someone who changed everything and he showed me I can take a chance, even if it’s only for a moment. You had that same moment once, when you met Yia Yia. And you risked everything for it. That was your chance, Papou. And I’m asking not to have mine.
Dear Tibby, my heart is too full to write about this now. And you won’t believe I’m saying this but I really think the pants did bring this to me. We were right all along, Tibby. The pants are magic. And I know if you let them, they’ll bring you some too. All my love, Lena.
Carmen: You’ve never known, because I’ve never been able to tell you. You should’ve warn me, but it’s more than that. I feel like some outsider who doesn’t even belong to you anymore. It’s like you’ve traded me for something that you thought was better. I want to know why. Are you ashamed of me? Are you embarrassed? Just tell me what did I do wrong? Why did you leave? Why did you have to go? And then tell me that we were gonna be closer? But that never happened.
Tibby: You were right and I was wrong. But I’m wrong about most people. So...
Bailey: The important thing is you always change your mind about them.
Tibby: You just have to believe.
Bailey: They’ve already worked their magic on me. They brought me to you.
Bailey: ] Hey, it's me, Bailey. You don't have to use this in your movie or anything, although now that I think of it, fainting in Wallman's does kind of qualify me as a loser. But then again, wearing a price sticker on your forehead probably makes you one, too. Ya know, I don't know, Tibby, maybe the truth is there is a little bit of loser in all of us, you know? Being happy isn’t having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it’s about stringing together all the little things, like wearing these pants, or getting to a new level of “Dragon’s Lair” and making those count for more than the bad stuff. Maybe we just get through it and that’s all we can ask for.
Carmen: As hard as it is to be sad about it, don’t you think maybe it’s harder not to be?
Bridget: I just want to feel good and happy and alive because if I feel alive then it doesn’t seem like she’s dead. And if I’m not sad, then it proves that I’m not like her.
Carmen: You don’t have to prove that to anyone. You have a strength in you that your mom never had. As much as she wanted to, she couldn’t find it.
Bridget: Problem is I wanted it for all the wrong reasons. And all the things that I was trying to run away from just ended up catching up with me that much sooner.
Bridget: Rule number 11: in the event of an emergency, the pants will automatically go to the sister in need regardless of the schedule.
Dear Bridget, I guess I was kidding myself to think that when the pants arrived they were somehow going to make everything better. I mean, I don’t blame them for what happened, but anyway I do hope they bring you better luck than they did me, and even more than that, Bee, may they bring you good sense. I know it sounds boring but trust me, from experience, a little common sense; it’s not such a bad thing, Bee. Wear them well. Love you, Carmen.
Carmen: I felt like I was living in some freak show known as “The Land of the Blonds.” And guess who was the freak? It was horrible. Okay, Paul, he doesn’t talk. He didn’t say a word. And Krista, she’s this perky little… nightmare. Her and her mom are like Sunshine Twins on uppers except when, God forbid, something happened with the wedding plans. Because, Tibby, I don’t think there was a single conversation that didn’t revolve around flowers, or hors d’oeuvres menus, or guest lists or tablecloths.
Yia Yia: He makes you drunk. You made promise to me. Does that mean nothing to you too? It does not mean nothing to break the hearts of those who love you? You call that nothing? In this life, family is the most precious gift we are given. The most sacred. Turn your back on them, and that is when you truly have nothing.
Carmen: It would be easy to say that the pants changed everything that summer. But looking back now, I feel that our lives changed because they had to. And that the real magic of the pants was in bearing witness to all of this and in somehow holding us together when it felt like nothing would ever be the same again.
Carmen: Some things never would be.
Lena: But we knew now that no matter how far we traveled on our own separate paths...
Bridget: Somehow we would always find or way back to each other.
Tibby: And with that, we could get through anything.
Bridget: To us, who we were and who we are. And who we’ll be.
Tibby: To the pants.
Lena: And the sisterhood.
Carmen: And this moment and the rest of our lives.
All: Together and apart.
Priest: Grief is never an easy burden to bear. And as we mourn the loss of this beloved wife, mother and friend… it only make her choice that much more unfathomable. What measure of despair compels one to commit such an act? We can only take comfort in the face that she is in a better place now… than she found here among us.
Carmen: 1. Each sister is going to keep the pants for a week.
Tibby: 2. No picking your nose while wearing the pants.
Bridget: 3. When sending the pants, we should write a letter detailing the most exciting thing that has happened to us while wearing the pants.
Carmen: 4. When it happens and we re unite we will document it on the pants themselves
Lena: 5. Any removal of the pants must be done by the wearer herself
Carmen: 6. We will never ever wash the pants
Tibby: 7. No double cuffing. Double cuffing is tacky
Carmen: 8. Tucking your shirt and wearing a belt at the same time
Bridget: 9. You can never say you look fat while wearing the pants
Lena: 10. Pants = love.
Bridget: Love your sisters and love yourself
Lena's Yia Yia: We guard you like a jewel.
Tibby: Human existence at its lamest.
Lena: I’ve never known that kinda of faith. It makes me so sad that people like Kostas and Bridget who have lost everything can still be open to love while I, who have lost nothing, cannot.
Eric: I don’t know if I’ve ever seen anyone with that much intensity. Ever. You know it’s more than that. You scare the hell outta me.
Bridget: Single minded to a point of recklessness.
Bailey: You know what I like most about the stars? You look at them, all of them up there and you just know there’s gotta be something more than...
Tibby: Life?
Bailey: There has to be.
Tibby: Are you scared?
Bailey: Not of dying, really. It’s more that I’m afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I’m supposed to be to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I’m afraid of what I’ll miss.
Lena: Bridget just lights everything up. She makes everything more fun. And Carmen is brilliant, but she doesn't know it. And Tibby marches to her own drum. I’m kinda jealous of her. Because she knows who she is. I think I know who I wanna be.
Lena: All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way.
Kostas: Some people show off their beauty because they want the world to see it. Others try to hide their beauty because they want the world to see something else.
Carmen: And you know what, Lydia? Just forget about the dress. We can tell everybody that Carmen's Puerto Rican. And it never occurred to you she might be built differently. Or that, unlike you and your daughter, she has an ass that the tailor didn't have enough bolts of material to cover, or better yet, just tell everyone there is no Carmen. Carmen doesn't exist!
Carmen: And why are you giving me this hypocritical lecture about treating people decently when you walk around screaming, “Screw the world” because that’s easier than feeling something?
Tibby: She drives you crazy. We’ll be doing interviews, right? Talking to people, and she’ll just jump in out of nowhere and start asking these questions. She’ll ask them anything she wants about their lives, like she’s trying to get to know them or something.
Bridget: It happened just how I imagined it always would. So why do I feel this way, Lena? How can something that’s supposed to make you feel so complete end up leaving you so empty. I just wish so much I could talk to my mom. I need her and that scares me.
Tibby: Well, maybe sometimes it’s easier to be mad at the people you trust. Because you know they’ll always love you, no matter what.
Lena: Papou, I need to say something to you. You can pretend that you don't understand me, but I know you do. People have always said to me that I take after Yia Yia, that I have her face and her smile but what no one ever sees is that there’s this whole other part of me that is just like you. Quiet and stubborn and afraid of showing too much. And then I met someone who changed everything and he showed me I can take a chance, even if it’s only for a moment. You had that same moment once, when you met Yia Yia. And you risked everything for it. That was your chance, Papou. And I’m asking not to have mine.
Dear Tibby, my heart is too full to write about this now. And you won’t believe I’m saying this but I really think the pants did bring this to me. We were right all along, Tibby. The pants are magic. And I know if you let them, they’ll bring you some too. All my love, Lena.
Carmen: You’ve never known, because I’ve never been able to tell you. You should’ve warn me, but it’s more than that. I feel like some outsider who doesn’t even belong to you anymore. It’s like you’ve traded me for something that you thought was better. I want to know why. Are you ashamed of me? Are you embarrassed? Just tell me what did I do wrong? Why did you leave? Why did you have to go? And then tell me that we were gonna be closer? But that never happened.
Tibby: You were right and I was wrong. But I’m wrong about most people. So...
Bailey: The important thing is you always change your mind about them.
Tibby: You just have to believe.
Bailey: They’ve already worked their magic on me. They brought me to you.
Bailey: ] Hey, it's me, Bailey. You don't have to use this in your movie or anything, although now that I think of it, fainting in Wallman's does kind of qualify me as a loser. But then again, wearing a price sticker on your forehead probably makes you one, too. Ya know, I don't know, Tibby, maybe the truth is there is a little bit of loser in all of us, you know? Being happy isn’t having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it’s about stringing together all the little things, like wearing these pants, or getting to a new level of “Dragon’s Lair” and making those count for more than the bad stuff. Maybe we just get through it and that’s all we can ask for.
Carmen: As hard as it is to be sad about it, don’t you think maybe it’s harder not to be?
Bridget: I just want to feel good and happy and alive because if I feel alive then it doesn’t seem like she’s dead. And if I’m not sad, then it proves that I’m not like her.
Carmen: You don’t have to prove that to anyone. You have a strength in you that your mom never had. As much as she wanted to, she couldn’t find it.
Bridget: Problem is I wanted it for all the wrong reasons. And all the things that I was trying to run away from just ended up catching up with me that much sooner.
Bridget: Rule number 11: in the event of an emergency, the pants will automatically go to the sister in need regardless of the schedule.
Dear Bridget, I guess I was kidding myself to think that when the pants arrived they were somehow going to make everything better. I mean, I don’t blame them for what happened, but anyway I do hope they bring you better luck than they did me, and even more than that, Bee, may they bring you good sense. I know it sounds boring but trust me, from experience, a little common sense; it’s not such a bad thing, Bee. Wear them well. Love you, Carmen.
Carmen: I felt like I was living in some freak show known as “The Land of the Blonds.” And guess who was the freak? It was horrible. Okay, Paul, he doesn’t talk. He didn’t say a word. And Krista, she’s this perky little… nightmare. Her and her mom are like Sunshine Twins on uppers except when, God forbid, something happened with the wedding plans. Because, Tibby, I don’t think there was a single conversation that didn’t revolve around flowers, or hors d’oeuvres menus, or guest lists or tablecloths.
Yia Yia: He makes you drunk. You made promise to me. Does that mean nothing to you too? It does not mean nothing to break the hearts of those who love you? You call that nothing? In this life, family is the most precious gift we are given. The most sacred. Turn your back on them, and that is when you truly have nothing.
Carmen: It would be easy to say that the pants changed everything that summer. But looking back now, I feel that our lives changed because they had to. And that the real magic of the pants was in bearing witness to all of this and in somehow holding us together when it felt like nothing would ever be the same again.
Carmen: Some things never would be.
Lena: But we knew now that no matter how far we traveled on our own separate paths...
Bridget: Somehow we would always find or way back to each other.
Tibby: And with that, we could get through anything.
Bridget: To us, who we were and who we are. And who we’ll be.
Tibby: To the pants.
Lena: And the sisterhood.
Carmen: And this moment and the rest of our lives.
All: Together and apart.
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