Tom: People should be able to say how they feel - how they really feel - not, you know, some words that some strangers put in their mouths.
Narrator: There's only two kinds of people in the world. There's women, and there's men. Summer Finn was a woman.
Summer: All we ever do is argue! Tom: That is bullshit!
Narrator: Tom walked to her apartment, intoxicated by the promise of the evening. He believed that this time his expectations would align with reality...
Summer: We've been like Sid and Nancy for months now. Tom: Summer, Sid stabbed Nancy, seven times with a kitchen knife, I mean we have some disagreements but I hardly think I'm Sid Vicious. Summer: No I'm Sid. Tom: Oh, so I'm Nancy... [Pancakes arriv...
Narrator: The quote in Summer Finns Yearbook was a line from one her favorite bands, Belle and Sebastian. It reads "Color my life with the chaos of trouble."
Rachel Hansen: You know, my friends are all in love with you. You know, it's like we said. Plenty of other fish in the sea. Tom: [Looks at a group of twelve year old girls who wave at him and giggle] Thanks. But, uh, those are guppies. Rachel Hansen:...
Tom: This is lies. We are liars. Think about it. Why do people buy cards? It's not because they want to say how they feel. People buy cards because they can't say they feel or are afraid to. And we provide the service that let's them off the hook. Yo...
Narrator: For Tom Hansen, this was the night where everything changed. That wall Summer so often hid behind - the wall of distance, of space, of casual - that wall was slowly coming down. For here was Tom, in her world... a place few had been invited...
Rachel Hansen: PMS? Tom: What do you know about PMS? Rachel Hansen: More than you, Tom.
Tom: People buy cards 'cause they can't say how they feel, or they're afraid to. We provide the service that lets them off the hook.
Summer: There's no such thing as love, it's fantasy...
Vance: [talking to camera] I've been happily married for 30 years. She's the light that guides me home. [pause] Vance: Yes, it is from one of our cards. [pause] Vance: No, someone else wrote it. Doesn't make it less true.
Tom: That was actually my nickname in college. They called me "Perfectly Adequate" Hanson. [Starts to take a drink of wine] Summer: They used to call me "Anal Girl". [Tom nearly gags on his drink from that and looks at her like "What?"] Summer: I was...
Summer: You guys need anything? Tom: [provocatively] Oh, I think you know what I need. Summer: [looks at Tom, quizzically] Tom: [quietly] Some toner.
Tom: Paul, seriously... Paul: Did you bang her? Tom: No. Paul: What, hum job? Hand job? Tom: Man, no. No jobs. I'm still unemployed. We - we kissed.
McKenzie: Hey, don't you have like 20 cards to write by Friday? Tom: Nope, all done. McKenzie: Really? Well, could you help me with mine? Because I'm running out of ways to say "Congratulations". So far, I've got: "Congrats", "Good job" and "Well don...
McKenzie: Love... shit, I don't know. As long as she's cute and she's willing, right? [Turns serious] McKenzie: I'm flexible on the cute.
