Isn’t the ending a tragedy?

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To quote the wife of the Parkinson's patient:

"I suggest you go upstairs to clean up,
and then write a note
to find a healthy woman.
I love my wife,
but if I can do it again, I won't do it.
No one will tell you.
This disease will steal everything that you love her,
her body, smile and memory,
sooner or later she will lose all mobility, and
finally she can’t even dress herself
and then becomes more interesting.
Clear her excrement.
Cold face, dementia. The disease
is not a disease, it is just a Soviet novel. "

The ending is like a fairy tale, and it cannot conceal the paleness of reality...

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Love & Other Drugs quotes

  • Maggie Murdock: I'm gonna need you more than you need me.

    Jamie Randall: That's okay.

    Maggie Murdock: [crying] No it's not! It isn't *fair*! I have places to go!

    Jamie Randall: You'll go there. I just may have to carry you.

    Maggie Murdock: ...I can't ask you to do that.

    Jamie Randall: You didn't.

  • Jamie Randall: Hey, Lisa.

    Bruce Winston: Her name's not Lisa.

    Jamie Randall: I know. I know. But, if everytime I say "Hey, Lisa", then eventually she'll come up to me and she'll be like, you know, "My name's not Lisa it's... Jennifer"... whatever, and I'll do a big apology and I'll say, "I thought you were the Lisa who was mad at me for not calling". And, from then on Jennifer, or whatever her name is, will think that I dated a girl who looked just like her... who I rejected. She'll develop this unconscious need to win my approval and from then on, it's cake.

    Bruce Winston: Damn!