Closer quotes

View Quote Dan: I want Anna back.
Larry: She's made her choice.
Dan: I owe you an apology. I fell in love with her. My intention was not to make you suffer.
Larry: So where's the apology, ya ****.
Dan: I apologize. If you love her you'll let her go so she can be happy.
Larry: She doesn't want to be happy.
Dan: Everybody wants to be happy.
Larry: Depressives don't. They want to be unhappy to confirm they're depressed. If they were happy they couldn't be depressed anymore. They'd have to go out into the world and live. Which can be depressing.

View Quote It's a lie. It's a bunch of sad strangers photographed beautifully, and... all the glittering assholes who appreciate art say it's beautiful 'cause that's what they wanna see. But the people in the photos are sad, and alone... But the pictures make the world seem beautiful, so... the exhibition is reassuring which makes it a lie, and everyone loves a big fat lie.

View Quote Dan: At six, we stand round the computer and read the next day's page, make final changes, put in a few euphemisms to amuse ourselves...
Alice: Such as?
Dan: He was a convivial fellow-meaning he was an alcoholic. He valued his privacy-gay. He enjoyed his privacy-raging queen.
Alice: What would my euphemism be?
Dan: She was... disarming.
Alice: That's not a euphemism.
Dan: Yes, it is.

View Quote Larry: Tell me your name. [throws down a note]
Alice: Thank you. My name is Jane.
Larry: No, not that, your real name. [throws down another note]
Alice: Thank you. My name is Jane.
Larry: Your real name! Tell me your real name! I know your name is Alice! [throws down the rest of his money]
Alice: Thank you. My real name is plain Jane Jones.

View Quote Alice: **** me.
Dan: Again? We have to get up at 6.
'Alice: How can one man be so endlessly disappointing?
Dan: That's my charm.

View Quote Dan: I fell in love with her, Alice.
Alice: Oh, as if you had no choice? There's a moment, there's always a moment, I can do this, I can give in to this, or I can resist it, and I don't know when your moment was, but I bet there was one.

View Quote Anna: I haven't even seen you for a year.
Dan: Yes you have...
Anna: Only because you've stalk me outside my studio.
Dan: I never stalk, I lurk. and when I'm not there, you look for me.
Anna: How do you know if you are not there?
Dan: Because I am there, lurking from a distance.

View Quote Dan: When I get back, please tell me the truth.
Alice: Why?
Dan: Because I'm addicted to it. Because without it, we're animals. Trust me.

View Quote Alice: I hate you.
Dan: I'm sorry.
Alice: Irrelevant!

View Quote Alice: Why do you love her? Is it because she is successful?
Dan: No, it´s because she doesn't need me!

View Quote Anna: Why is the sex so important?
Larry: Because I'm a ****ing caveman!

View Quote Where is this love? I can't see it, I can't touch it. I can't feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words, but I can't do anything with your easy words.

View Quote Dan: I don't wanna hurt you.
Alice: So why are you?

View Quote Alice: I'm not a whore.
Larry: I wouldn't pay.

View Quote Dan: Didn't fancy my sandwiches?
Alice: Don't eat fish.
Dan: Why not?
Alice: Fish piss in the sea.
Dan: So do children.
Alice: I don't eat children either.