Narrator: This is a story of boy meets girl. The boy, Tom Hansen of Margate, New Jersey, grew up believing that he'd never truly be happy until the day he met the one. This belief stemmed from early exposure to sad British pop music and a total mis-r...
Author's Note: The following is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Especially you Jenny Beckman. Bitch.
Narrator: If Tom had learned anything... it was that you can't ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence, that's all anything ever is, nothing more than coincidence... Tom had finally learned, there are no miracles. The...
Tom: I love how she makes me feel, like anything's possible, or like life is worth it.
Tom: Do you ever do this, you think back on all the times you've had with someone and you just replay it in your head over and over again and you look for those first signs of trouble?
Vance: [reading a card that Tom has written] Roses are red, violets are blue... Fuck you, whore!
Rachel Hansen: Just because she likes the same bizzaro crap you do doesn't mean she's your soul mate.
Rachel Hansen: Look, I know you think she was the one, but I don't. Now, I think you're just remembering the good stuff. Next time you look back, I, uh, I really think you should look again.
Tom: People don't realize this, but loneliness is underrated.
Tom: Look, we don't have to put a label on it. That's fine. I get it. But, you know, I just... I need some consistency. Summer: I know. Tom: I need to know that you're not gonna wake up in the morning and feel differently. Summer: And I can't give yo...
Tom: It's these cards and the movies and the pop songs, they're to blame for all lies and the heartache, everything.
Tom: She took a giant shit on my face. Literally. Alison: Literally? Tom: Well, no, not literally. That's disgusting. What's wrong with you?
Narrator: Most days of the year are unremarkable. They begin and they end with no lasting memory made in between. Most days have no impact on the course of a life.
Paul: Robin is better than the girl of my dreams. She's real.
Summer: Well, you know, I guess it's 'cause I was sitting in a deli and reading Dorian Gray and a guy comes up to me and asks me about it and... now he's my husband. Tom: Yeah. And... so? Summer: So, what if I'd gone to the movies? What if I had gone...
Summer: I just... I just woke up one day and I knew. Tom: Knew what? Summer: ...What I was never sure of with you.
Tom: Darling... [Summer looks up at him] Tom: I don't know how to tell you this, but... there's a Chinese family in our bathroom.
