(one)
"It's Guzmin. He is more than a doorman."
"He will never be calling you"
"I'm an independent woman. I don't need anyone to help me to make up my mind."
"You are a very bright woman with PhD. I'm only thinking of your interests."
"You have made such a big thing out of protecting me from all this bad men, and now it's like you're encouraging me to live life alone."
"But you're no longer alone"
"I was never looking at the men, Maggie. I was looking at your eyes."
(two)
When Cupid is a prying journalist.
"That's not love. That's guilt. Love is trust. That's all it is. That's the only currency, and you broke it."
"Sometimes you realize that true love in its absolute form has many purposes in life. It's not actually just bringing babies into the world or romance or soul mates or..even lifelong companionship. The love we had in past,unfinished,untested,lost love, seems so easy, so childish to those of us who choose to settle down. But actually it's the purest, most concentrated stuff."
(three)
Take me as I am, whoever I am
"Surely, there's someone out there who will take me for who I am. One human being who accepts the two people in you. You can't show only one part of yourself to someone. That's Hollywood. That's Gilda. And it's beautiful but it can't last."
(Four)
rallying to keep the game alive
“I hate who I am with you now. I catch myself sometimes looking at you, and I'm just waiting for you to fuck up. It just seems easier to be you. I envy you, I envy your life and how you get to be. It just looks a lot more fun. I know there's things that you worry about, too. They seem like small things and I get to carry around all the big heavy shit, you just let me do it. You just let me take that role because I'm good at it. Maybe I don't want to be good at it., you know? Maybe I don't wanted that role. Maybe you never cared enough about me to stop and ask me if I wanted it. I think you pushed me away, I think you've always pushed me away from your life and the fun staff and like you never ask me to come out with you to your parties or premieres or, like I wouldn't like it.'oh I hate those people cause they're such assholes' and I'm so sensible. I think you tried to separate me from the fun stuff in your life because you knew if you saw me there, you would realize that that's where I should be. And then you have to feel bad about it. You made it impossible for me to be a part of your life, Dennis. So don't act surprised when I say that we have nothing in common, because you engineered that."
(five)
"At the hospital, an interlude of charity."
(six)
so he looked like dad, it was just dinner, right?
"I can't believe you would reduce our relationship to a cold calculation."
" aren't you a little old to be crying?"
"Why can't I cry. Why can't I have emotions with this?because I'm older?it's bullshit that,you know,older people have..have it together. It's more of the same. You're just trying to figure it out."
(seven)
"hers was a world of one"
special actor: Ed Sheeran (Mick)
"You're probably right, I've never contributed much to anything. In LA I just got so sick of the money and the waste next to the poverty and the suffering and the fucking cars puking out this shit. I thought if I don 't change the way I live.. I'm gonna be the biggest hypocrite alive."
"That's admirable."
"'Be the change you want to see' and all that.. But I don't realized, no one is seeing this. I don't blog. I don't have kids to be an example To. I'm invisible , like all these homeless people in the park."
"The truth is I'm terrified of this. I don't know if I'm ready. I'm so anal and neurotic. I can barely stand anyone in my house,never mind a baby. A baby? I don' t know."
(Eight)
the race grows sweeter near its final chapter.
"Every time we passed each other in the house, Ken made a point of stopping to kiss me or squeeze my shoulder or stroke my hand. I never had that in my life before, and sometimes it irked me, but now I think it's the thing that I will miss the most. He and I often told each other, 'we are so lucky.' and we were. Even for old people, can be surprisingly bountiful. Many of you know that Ken and I met when we were running . The geriatric Olympics, he called it. You know, in the beginning, I chased him and then he chased me, and finally we found a way to run in lockstep. And the tough uphill bits, the bits with illnesses and setbacks went a little easier, and the pleasant downhill parts were that much more joyful. And now Ken has run the course."
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