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“When you wear black clothes and someone asks whose funeral it is, look around the room and tell them you haven’t decided yet.” – Shane, P.I.
“Everything’s a romance. Every good story worth telling has a romantic element – it’s what makes us want to watch them, want to be them.
“There’s no problem so awful that you can’t add some guilt to it and make it even worse.”
“As a black man, I hope one day I have as many rights as a gun.” – Gabriel Eze
“We’re taught that parents are the ones we’re supposed to trust to protect us, and if they do their jobs right, we get to learn self-reliance in a safe and secure environment. But when they screw up – and boy, do they screw up – parental betrayal is possibly the worst thing a person can ever go through. When the person you trust most in the world tells you you’re shit, you either believe them, or you break.”
“Whatever words get said in the heat of anger, or cold fear, or even calm conversation, it is your choice to believe them, and your choice to give them meaning. Because you know what? They are just words, and the only power words have over us is the power we give them.”
“We have trouble believing the good things people say – how smart, or interesting, or remarkable we are – but we have no trouble totally owning the bad stuff. If I’m going to give words any power at all, I’m going to make damn sure it’s the ones that light me up like a sunrise, you know?”
Characters who don’t change and grow with each life experience turn into caricatures. They’re cardboard cutouts of people who eventually become boring because they’re predictable. But to grow you need to take risks, and this thing with the hunkster was the first real risk I’ve seen you take in a long time. Gamora takes risks, no matter how scared she is, and that’s what makes her interesting. Be Gamora, Shane. Take the risk.”
“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.” – Fiona Archer
“I have a dirty mind, and right now you’re running through it naked.” – Gabriel Eze
“Best friends don’t care if your house is clean – they care if you have wine.” – Sandra Greene
