Charlie Quotes
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"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."
"It's nice to have things to look forward to."
"I can see it. This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story. You’re alive. And you stand up and see the lights and the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And you’re listening to that song in that drive with the people you love most in this world. And in this moment I swear… we are infinite."
"There'll be no more of this wash wash morning and night."
"Wait! Wait! We can't leave the bed there!"
"Put some flowers in the graveyard. How come you call them that, Riley? I don't get it. There here ain't the kind of flowers you lay on the ground, these here are sky flowers. Way up in heaven..."
"[Near End] Sky flowers don't work no more."
"[walking into Chapman Academy] Look at this place. It's Princeton for preschoolers."
"[while leading Miss Harridan into his house] Is there anything I can get you to drink? Coffee, tea, water, eye of newt?"
"If you don't stop it with that Star Trek stuff, I'm gonna push you in that sticker bush."
"Any boob can run a day-care center, but it takes a family to raise some kids and that's what we're gonna be from now on: a family."
"[as he and Itchy prepare to ram Carface's door in with a Christmas tree] Steal Timmy's money, huh?! Drop me in the trash, huh?! Shoot me up the chimney, huh?! Okay, that's it! Now, we're gonna deck his halls!"
"My entire life, I've been nothing more than a stepping-stone to every relationship I've ever been in. There's always been a next guy who's better than me. For once in my life, I want to be that next guy. I've never said this to anybody before in my whole life. Cam... I love you. I love you, Cam."
"See you in six months for a routine stabbing."
"Because the truth is, Sophie, I am madly, deeply, truly, passionately in love with you."
"It's over! Done! We've found Nemo!"
"(about Juliet) I would have grabbed her from that blasted balcony and been done with it."
"(to Sophie) So, isn't your future fiance starting to get a tad lonely?"
"[to Carol] Seeing isn't believing, believing is seeing."
"Oh my god, baby. I wish you were here with me right now. I got Dave's jeep and I'm driving on the PCH. And the sun is about to set. It is fucking unbelievable."
"You know I haven't encountered a single mosquito since I've been here? It's like a no-mosquito-zone. They're outlawed or something."
"Dave told me this awesome thing about L.A. No, listen. He says the whole town is like this blank canvas, and whatever you bring to it, that's what it is. It's just this random collection of neighborhoods where it's always sunny and it basically reflects wherever you're at back at you. So if you're happy, L.A. is great. If you're not, L.A. sucks. But it has nothing to do with Los Angeles. Because, get this, there's no such thing!"
"What good is paying out the nose to live here if we never take advantage of it? We might as well live somewhere else and just, visit every once and a while and actually do things. Y'know? Like hit the Met. Take in a Broadway show. Carnegie Deli. Wow, that's a really big sandwich. I don't know if I can eat all that."
"Did you know that my three most financially successful years in New York City were when I was dealing pot?"
"I just wanna feel like the crap I put myself through is... I don't know. I'm just tired."
"Oh okay, so we're definitely not just taking off clothes then, gotcha'."
"It's all bullshit except the pain. The pain of hell. The burn from a lighted match increased a million times. Infinite. Now, ya don't fuck around with the infinite. There's no way you do that. The pain in hell has two sides. The kind you can touch with your hand; the kind you can feel in your heart... your soul, the spiritual side. And ya know... the worst of the two is the spiritual."
"[They all raise their glasses to The Queen] You know what the Queen said? If I had balls, I'd be King."
"You know something? She is really good-lookin'. I gotta say that again. She is really good-lookin'. But she's black. You can see that real plain, right? Look, there isn't much of a difference anyway, is there. Well, is there?"
"Ahoy there! Do you want to play Hide-and-Seek?"
"No, no. Not Daddy. I'm the nice fish who wants to be your friend, okay?"
"Oh, thank goodness you're here! I spied a shiny tuppence down this here runoff but more fool me, my arm has become trap-ped. Perhaps you might see about sourcing some lubrication, that I might slip free? I need something greasy to slip me out of here!"
"Rightio chaps, ready for one last tug tugaroo? Grab ahold of my for'arm. On my mark... three, two, one... Heave! Ho!"
"What's this! 'Twas nary a tuppence! 'Twas a threepence! Pray tell, young threepence, where best to spend ye? What ho, what luck, a wishing well! Godspeed, young threepence!"
"Do I smell quail? Oh I see, twas but a tomato! Hoo hoo, more fool me. 30-love, Herbert, 30-love!"
"I hate you.'My sister said it different than she said it to my dad. She meant it with me. She really did.'I love you,' was all I could say in return."
"I see it as symbolic. The label no longer fits. His emotional parsimoniousness just got sucked away by the beautiful blue sky. I lean forward and reach my hand behind my back, then take my sign off, and I toss it out the window, too. I am no longer an ex-stripper's daughter, either. I have gone from invisible Vera Dietz to invincible Vera Dietz."
"As I load my shirt into the washer for the night, I daydream about making a sign and hanging it around my neck. I could wear it to school tomorrow. It could read, I MISS CHARLIE KHAN."
"Incidentally, I only have one cavity, and as much as my dentist asks me to, I just can't bring myself to floss."
"It's a blip, not a catastrophe."
"Mr. Grace sounded like a very small child, helpless, hopeless. I had made him fuck himself with his own big tool, like one of those weird experiences you read about in the Penthouse Forum. I had taken off his witch doctor's mask and made him human. But I didn't hold it against him. To err is only human, but it's divine to forgive. I believe that sincerely."
"As I load my shirt into the washer for the night, I daydream about making a sign and hanging it around my neck. It could read, I MISS CHARLIE KHAN.As I drive home, I picture other signs- one for everyone who has a secret. Bill Coro's would say, I CAN'T READ, BUT I CAN THROW A FOOTBALL. Me. Shunk's would read, I WISH I COULD TOSS YOU ALL ON AN ISLAND BY YOURSELVES. Dad's would read, I HATE MYSELF FOR NO GOOD REASON."
"As I drive home, I picture other signs- one for everyone who has a secret. Bill Corso's would say, I CAN'T READ, BUT I CAN THROW A FOOTBALL. Mr. Shunk's would read, I WISH I COULD TOSS YOU ALL ON AN ISLAND BY YOURSELVES. Dad's would read, I HATE MYSELF FOR NO GOOD REASON.My Idea grows."
"Craziness is only a matter of degree, and there are lots of people besides me who have the urge to roll heads. They go to stock-car races and the horror movies and the wrestling matches they have in Portland Expo. Maybe what she said smacked of all those things, but I admired her for saying out loud, all the same--the price of honesty is always high. She had an admirable grasp of the fundamentals. Besides, she was tiny and pretty."
"She's familiar. My only familiar thing in a world of inconsistency and confusion."
"Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be."
"Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow."