“Let me tell you something about women. Women would have us believe that they are the victims; That we break their hearts for sport. That’s crap. They say they want romance, they say they want true love, but all they want is a check list. Is he perfect? Is he handsome? Is he a doctor? [...]
“The big strong brave men, that we’ve all been reading about in novels and watching in movies since we’ve been nine years old – -that’s a fallacy. They don’t exist. Men are not strong. Men are not brave. Men, are afraid. Even if they have a moment in a hotel elevator and it’s totally romantic [...]
“My love was a privilege that you abused. I have withdrawn that privilege. You are out of my heart. I wish you nothing but unending guilt.” – Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
“Am I not allowed to be happy or something? I’ve been living alone and alone and alone. That’s my life. This is the only girl I’ve ever loved and I’m not supposed to do anything about this? When am I supposed to be happy? Why does everyone else get to be happy?” – Funny People
“Dwayne told me. Chuck told me. Even Rachel told me. I heard about it from everybody. You gotta stop talking about it. It’s like ‘the Sopranos.’ It’s over. Find a new show.” – Forgetting Sarah Marshall
“You know, I’m so glad I never got involved with you. I just would have ended up being some woman you had to get up out of bed and leave at 3:00 in the morning and go clean your andirons, and you don’t even have a fireplace, not that I would know this.” – when [...]
“From now on, you stay away from me. I have wasted thousands and thousands of kisses on you. Kisses I thought were special because of your eyes and your smile and your lips and all your color and life. I thought that was the real you when you smiled. But now I know that you [...]
“Go for it? You can do it? That’s not inspirational; that’s suicidal! If pickles goes for it right there that’s a dead cat. Lies, were liars think about it, why do people buy these things? It’s not because they wanna say how they feel, people buy cards cause they can’t say how they feel or [...]
“You told me you couldn’t believe in someone who didn’t believe in you. I believed in you. I always believed in you. You just didn’t believe in me.” – Pretty in Pink
“I felt like I had to get out of there because I might really care about you, and it scared me so much because that meant that you could hurt me. And maybe I didn’t feel ready to like someone that much.” – How to Deal
“You can’t navigate me. I might do mean things, and I might hurt you and I might run away without your permission and you might hate me forever, and I know that that scares the shit out of you, because I’m the only real thing that you have.” – Reality Bites
“Maybe the deepest part of who we are is what scares us or breaks our hearts and we don’t want to share that with anyone, and when we do, we don’t want to lose those people.” – Another Woman’s Husband
“Well, what aren’t you scared of? You live in this safe little world where no one challenges you and you’re scared shitless to do anything else but defend yourself cause that would mean you’d have to change. You’re afraid that I won’t love you back, and you know what? I’m afraid, too.” – Good Will [...]
“I’m not gonna do it, because it’ll hurt! Sometime or other there’ll be, you know ‘It’s not working.’ Or ‘I need my space.’ Or whatever it is and it will end and it will hurt, and I won’t do it.” – Last Chance Harvey