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The performance of it. The awkwardness of it, the drama of it. The moment you realise someone wants your body … Not so much the feeling of it.
Now we’re thirty and angry.
I just want to cry … all the time.
he’s obviously not happy. Happy people wouldn’t do things like that.
That’s the very reason why they put rubbers on the end of pencils.
because people make mistakes.
You’re not born sad.
Some people are.
People make mistakes.
No. She turns and runs away down the street.
You already know what you’re going to do. Everybody does.
You’ve already decided what you’re going to do.
You know what you’re going to do.
Women are born with pain built in. It’s our physical destiny. Period pains, sore boobs, child birth, you know. We carry it within ourselves throughout our lives. Men don’t. They have to seek it out. They invent all sorts of gods and demons and things so they can feel guilty about things, which is something we do very well on our own. Then they create wars so they can feel things and touch each other, and when there aren’t any wars they play rugby. We already have it all going on in here, inside.
People are all we’ve got.
What was that? FLEABAG What? PRIEST Where did … Where did you just go? FLEABAG What? PRIEST You just went somewhere.
Fleabag looks at the camera in panic. PRIEST There. There. Where did you just go? FLEABAG Nowhere.
That you’re doing … it’s like you disappear.
With all the love I have for her. I don’t know … where to – put it now.
FOR FUCK’S SAKE STOP THAT. I don’t think you want to be told what to do at all. I think you know exactly what to do. If you really wanted someone to tell you what to do, you’d be wearing one of these.
I think you know how to love better than any of us. That’s why you find it all so painful.
Love is awful! It’s awful. It’s painful. It’s frightening, it makes you doubt yourself, judge yourself, distance yourself from other people in your life. Makes you selfish. Makes you creepy. It makes you obsessed with your hair. Makes you cruel. Makes you say and do things you never thought you would do.
It’s all any of us want and it’s hell when we get there. So no wonder it’s something we don’t want to do on our own.
And love isn’t something that weak people do. Being a romantic takes a hell of a lot of hope. I think what they mean is … When you find somebody that you love … It feels like hope.
You know the worst thing is … That I fucking love you.
It’ll pass.
