[Ellie, the true author of many classmate assignments turned in, comes up to Mrs. Geselschap's front desk to turn in her own assignment]

Mrs. Geselschap: Six different takes on Plato. Impressive.

Ellie Chu: [maintaining the pretense] Just the one.

Mrs. Geselschap: That's what I tell the bartender.

Ellie Chu: How come you never turn me in?

Mrs. Geselschap: And have to read the actual essays they'd write?
Ellie Chu: I'm Ellie Chu.

Aster Flores: Yes, I know. You've only been playing my dad's services every Sunday for, like, four years. You're his favorite heathen. He can't handle mediocre accompanists, even if they ARE saved.
Ellie Chu: The good thing about being different is that no one expects you to be like them.
Paul Munsky: So when does the dating start?

Ellie Chu: This IS dating.

Paul Munsky: No, dating's burgers and-and fries and shakes, and maybe another order of fries.
Ellie Chu: Aster Flores thinks you're into abstract art and repressed British literature.

Paul Munsky: Yeah.

Ellie Chu: None of that is you.

Paul Munsky: It could be. I started reading that Remains of the Day book.

Ellie Chu: Really?

Paul Munsky: Yeah. I fell asleep a few times, but I'm still reading it. That's gotta count for something.
Paul Munsky: What was your mom like?

Ellie Chu: Young, funny, dead.

Paul Munsky: No, before she died.

Ellie Chu: Young, funny... .. fun.
Ellie Chu: Gravity is matter's response to loneliness.
Colleen Munsky: Mommy wants you to know, in case you ARE gay, Mommy still loves you.

Paul Munsky: I'm not gay, Mom.

Colleen Munsky: Thank God.

Paul Munsky: I might... want to change our sausage recipe, though.

Colleen Munsky: Are you insane? I LOVE that recipe!

[strikes Paul with her purse]
Ellie Chu: Is this really the boldest stroke you can make?
Paul Munsky: Go to the dressing room. I-I'll toss you some things.

Ellie Chu: But you're a dude.

Paul Munsky: I have a sister.

The Half of It Quotes

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The Half of It short comments

Ulices 2022-03-25 09:01:22

My mother once told me: The first people were spherical people, two individuals glued back to back, with two faces, eight hands and feet. Zeus and the gods were worried that humans were too powerful and disrespectful to the gods, so they split the spherical man in half. So each of us has been looking for the other half who is compatible with us. But they are still afraid, throwing us into a sea of people, making us lost, wrong, regretful, tired, compromised, and surrendered after repeated cycles. But there are always two people who are not afraid of the wind, not afraid of the fast rain, do not look to the future, do not recite the past, just hope that at that moment, they can embrace each other with tears and say that sentence... If there is a chance, think of that day. , When my daughter grows up, I will sit on the sofa, watch those classic love movies, and tell her these words.
Reginald 2022-03-11 08:02:00

The part where the piano on the stage changes to the guitar is so abrupt... (especially the reaction at the bottom) I like the ending