A scene from Monster 2003
Aileen

Everybody just thinks I'm this bad shitty **** person, and all I'm **** tryin' to do is survive, you know?

Thomas

I know. I know what you do for a living. It doesn't bother me. I know you didn't dial it up on a goddamn telephone. That's where you landed. That's what you had to do. What you're feeling right now is just guilt, over something you had absolutely no control over. You know how many of us came back from the war? And almost killed ourselves because we felt exactly the same thing you do, right now.

Aileen

Yeah?

Thomas

Yeah. And they'll never get it. They'll never get it now, they never got it then, and they sure as hell won't get **** circumstance!

Aileen

****, man, circumstance, that's exactly it, that's exactly it. You know I feel like I never even had a **** choice.

Thomas

You never did. But you gotta live. You gotta live.

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