He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that tw...
Raleigh: [after reading a private investigator's research on Margot's background, which reveals she's been a smoker since she was 12, she married a man in Jamaica at 19, has had numerous affairs and one-night stands with men and women, including Eli ...
Margot: Do you send my mother your clippings and your grades from college? Eli: Please stop belittling me. You never gave me the time of day til I started getting good reviews. Margot: Your reviews aren't that good. Eli: But the sales are.
Richie: Did you tell Margot about that letter I wrote to you? Eli: Why? Did she mention it? Yes, I did. Why would have she repeated that, I wonder? Richie: Well, I would ask you the same question. Eli: Rightly so.
Eli: How's Richie? Margot: I don't know. I can't tell. Eli: Yeah, me neither. He wrote me a letter. He says he's in love with you. Margot: What are you talking about? Eli: That's what he said. I don't know how we're supposed to take it.
Richie: Are we still friends? Eli: What? Richie: Are we? Eli: Of course. How can you even ask me that? Richie: Doesn't matter. Eli: Doesn't matter? It does matter. Richie: I heard about you and Margot. Eli: [long pause] I'm sorry.
Eli: I'm worried about you, Richie. Richie: Why? Eli: Well, actually, Margot is, for some reason. But I did find it odd when you said you were in love with her. She's married you know. Richie: Yeah. Eli: And she's your sister. Richie: Adopted.
I'm really not a celebrity; I'm just a teacher.
I hated the royal wedding.
Eli: I'm not in love with you any more. Margot: I didn't know you ever were. Eli: Let's not make this any more difficult than it already is. Margot: OK. Eli: OK, what? Margot: OK, I'm not in love with you either. Eli: Yes, I know, you're in love with...
Training Video Girl: [in Japanese] Hello, everyone in Class B! Teacher Kitano: [clapping happily] Ok, hello! Training Video Girl: You are the lucky class chosen for this year's Battle Royale! [welcoming hand gesture] Training Video Girl: Congratulati...
On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.
At her funeral, Diana's brother observed, 'Of all the ironies about Diana, perhaps the greatest was this--- a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted person of our modern age.
How can you sleep at a time like this?” she asked, but the only answer was a low snore. She looked at him suspiciously. In the short time she had been with him, she had never before heard him snore. “You’re faking,” she said. “No. I’m rea...
Papa had always told Justine that guns had a remarkable capacity to focus the mind. She couldn’t say with any confidence that her actions had cleared the minds of the drunken louts before her, but she’d sharpened their attention. They gaped at he...
Tennis Match Commentator #1: That's 72 unforced errors for Richie Tenebaum. He's playing the worst tennis of his life. What's he feeling right now, Tex Hayward? Tex Hayward: I don't know, Jim. There's obviously something wrong with him. He's taken of...
Eli: What'd you say? Richie: Hmm? Eli: What? Richie: I didn't say anything. Eli: When? Right now? [a pause] Eli: I'm sorry, don't listen to me. I'm on mescaline. I've been spaced out all day. Richie: Did you say you're on mescaline? Eli: I did, indee...
Chas: Please don't get in the middle of this, Mr. Sherman. This is a family matter. Margot: Don't talk to him like that. Henry Sherman: Call me Henry. Chas: I prefer Mr. Sherman. Ethel: Call him Henry. Chas: Why? I don't know him that well. Ethel: Yo...
Ethel: Raleigh says you've been spending 6 hours a day locked in here, watching television and soaking in the tub. Margot: [lying in the bath] I doubt that. Ethel: Well, I don't think that's very healthy, do you? Nor do I think it's very intelligent ...
[Chas Tenenbaum and his sons enter his mother's house with several bags] Etheline Tenenbaum: Chas? What's going on? Chas: We got locked out of our apartment. Etheline Tenenbaum: Well, did you call a locksmith? Chas: Uh huh. Etheline Tenenbaum: Well, ...
Richie: Read it back to me so far, Pietro. Cote d'Ivoire Radio Operator: [speaks with an Italian accent, his words are shown in subtitles] "Dear Eli, I'm in the middle of the ocean. I haven't left my room in four days. I've never been more lonely in ...
