Pearl Madison quotes from The United States of Leland (2003)

Pearl Madison

Just because what you did was wrong doesnt mean that giving up on your life is right.

Pearl Madison

Love is when you can't get somebody out of your mind. When they are your first thought in the morning and your last thought at night. Maybe it's not in your heart but it is in your head.

Pearl Madison

I'm only human, man.

Leland

It's funny how people only say that after they do something bad. I mean, you never hear someone say, "I'm only human" after they rescue a kid from a burning building.

Leland

You know what the funny thing about earthquakes is? After an earthquake you see people pulling other people out of broken down buildings and people hugging and junk because they saw a little girl's shoe in the middle of the road and no little girl around. Then a couple days later they forget all about it...

Pearl Madison

Well it still shows you that there's goodness in people.

Leland

During earthquakes at least...

Leland

How do you see the world, bro?

Pearl Madison

Full of possibilities. I think that good things abound positive things. What about you?

Leland

Hmm... I think there are two ways to see it. One's like what you said, where our lives are ok. And maybe stuff's wrong but you don't see it.

Pearl Madison

What's the other way?

Leland

When you see what's really there.

Pearl Madison

The sadness?