–What are you nuts?
–It’s been suggested.
…she was just a girl
…the perfect ending to this piece of shit story!
1/_That’s the oldest trick in the stalker book
2/_There’s a *stalker* book?
1/_Will you do me a favour and clean the god-damned hair off the soap when you’re in the shower…. gross
2/_Yes, of course… gross
1: That is the oldest trick in the stalker book.
2: Really? There’s a stalker book? Great! I gotta read that one.
Howard: I came here to work! This is a one time mistake!Mary: Yeah, I’m just a stupid girl with a stupid crush!(stops car abruptly)Howards wife: don’t be a monster Howard, tell the poor girl. (to Mary)You can have him, you already have….(drives off)
By morning, you’ll be gone.
Carrie, I’m making a birdhouse.
Clementine : I apply my personality in a paste.
Clementine : I wish you’d stayed.
Joel : I wish I’d stayed, too. NOW I wish I’d stayed. I wish I’d done a lot of things. I wish I’d… I wish I’d stayed… I do.
Clementine : I’m gonna marry you… I know it!
Joel : Ummm… okay…
Clementine : Joel, hide me in your humiliation!
Clementine : Joel, I’m not a concept. Too many guys think I’m a concept or I complete them or I’m going to make them alive, but I’m just a fucked up girl who is looking for my own peace of mind. Don’t assign me yours.
Joel : I remember that speech really well.
Clementine : I had you pegged, didn’t I?
Joel : You had the whole human race pegged.
Clementine : Probably.
Joel : I still thought you were going to save me. Even after that.
Clementine : Joely, don’t ever leave me.
Joel : You’re pretty… you’re pretty… pretty…
Joel : Mierzwiak! Please let me keep this memory, just this one.
Clementine : Joely? What if you stay this time?
Joel : I walked out the door. There’s no memory left.
Clementine : Come back and make up a goodbye at least, let’s pretend we had one… Goodbye, Joel.
Joel : …I love you…
Clementine : …Meet me in Montauk…
Clementine : Let me show you something… come on…
Joel : I think I heard a crack.
Clementine : It’s not gonna crack, or break, or… it’s so thick!… Show me which constellations you know.
Joel : Um… oh… I don’t… know any.
Clementine : Show me which ones you know!
Joel : Okay… okay… oh! There’s Osidius.
Clementine : Where?
Joel : Right there… see? Sort of a swoop and a cross, Osidius Emphatic.
Clementine : You’re full of shit, right?
Joel : Nope. Osidius, right there, swoop and cross.
Clementine : Shut the fuck up!
Clementine : You married?
Joel : No.
Clementine : Let’s move into this neighborhood!
Joel : I do sorta live with someone though.
Clementine : Male or female?
Joel : What? Female… female…
Clementine : At least I’m not barking up the wrong tree!
Clementine : You’re not a stalker, or anything, right?
Joel : I’m not a stalker. YOU’RE the one that talked to me, remember?
Clementine : That is the oldest trick in the stalker book.
Joel : Really? There’s a stalker book? Great, I gotta read that one.
Clementine: Can I borrow a piece of your chicken?
Joel: And then you just took it, without even waiting for an answer. It was so intimate.
Clementine: Joelie, what if you stayed?
Clementine: Joely?
Joel: Yeah Tangerine?
Clementine: Am I ugly?
Joel: Uh-uh.
Clementine: When I was a kid, I thought I was. I can’t believe I’m crying already. Sometimes I think people don’t understand how lonely it is to be a kid, like you don’t matter. So, I’m eight, and I have these toys, these dolls. My favorite is this ugly girl doll who I call Clementine, and I keep yelling at her, You can’t be ugly! Be pretty! It’s weird, like if I can transform her, I would magically change, too.
Clementine: This is it, Joel. It’s going to be gone soon.
Joel: I know.
Clementine: What do we do?
Joel: Enjoy it.
Clementine: This is kinda warped!
Clementine: You’re kind of closed mouthed, aren’t you?
Joel: Sorry, my life isn’t that interesting. I go to work. I go home. I don’t know what to say.
Clementine: Does that make you sad? Or anxious? I’m always anxious thinking I’m not living my life to the fullest, you know? Taking advantage of every possibility. Just making sure that I’m not wasting one second of the little time I have.
Clemintine: Sometimes I think people don’t understand how lonely it is to be a kid. Like you don’t matter.
clemtine: (looks at a picture joel drew of her on a skeleton’s body)you made me look…skinny
Constantly talking isn’t necessarily communicating.
Drink up, young man. It’ll make the whole seduction part less repugnant
Everybody’s got to learn sometime.
He stole her underwear….he stole her underwear!
How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d;
I apply my personality in a paste.
I can’t remember anything without you
i don’t need nice. i don’t need myself to be it, and i don’t need anyyone to be it at me
I love being bathed in the sink
I think your name is magical.
I’m crawling out of my skin!
I’m making a birdhouse!
i’m not a concept , i’m just a fucked up girl looking for her own piece of mind don’t assign me yours
It’s a birthmark!
Joel : I can’t remember anything without you.
Clementine : That’s sweet, but try.
Joel : I could die right now, Clem. I’m just… happy. I’ve never felt that before. I’m just exactly where I want to be.
Joel : I had a really nice time last night.
Clementine : Nice?
Joel : I had the best fucking night of my entire fucking life, last night!
Clementine : Thaaaat’s better!
Joel : Is there any risk of brain damage?
Howard : Well, technically speaking, the operation is brain damage, but on a par with a night of heavy drinking. Nothing you’ll miss.
Joel : Look at it out here, it’s all falling apart. I’m erasing you and I’m happy!
Joel : By morning, you’ll be gone.
Joel : My God, there’s people coming out of your butt.
Joel : Wait.
Clementine : Why?
Joel : I don’t know. Just wait… for a while.
Joel : I don’t see anything I don’t like about you.
Clementine : But you will! But you will, and I’ll get bored with you and feel trapped, because that’s what happens with me.
Joel : Okay.
[last lines]
Clementine : Okay.
Joel : Okay.
Joel: Constantly talking isn’t necessarily communicating.
Joel: I’m just happy, Clem. I’ve never felt that before. I’m exactly where I want to be.
Joel: Is there any risk of brain damage?
Howard: Well, technically speaking, the operation is brain damage, but on a par with a night of heavy drinking. Nothing you’ll miss.
Joel: Is there any risk of brain damage?
Howard: Well, technically speaking, the operation is brain damage.
Joel: Sand is overrated.
Joel: What if it breaks?
Clementine: What if? do you really care right now?
Joel: [narration as Clementine acknowledges him by raising her coffee mug] Why do I fall in love with every woman I see that shows me the least bit of attention?
Joel: [narration as Clementine acknowledges him by raising her coffee mug] Why do I fall in love with every woman I see that shows me the least bit of attention?
Oh my God I love this kitchen
Oh my God, there’s people coming out of your butt
Patrick : Mary hates me. I’ve never been popular with the ladies.
Stan : Maybe if you stopped stealing their panties.
Patrick: Can I help you with anything?
Joel: Ummm no, I’m good.
(pause)
Patrick: what are you doing here?
Joel:…I don’t really know what you’re asking me.
Please let me keep this memory
Sand is over-rated. It’s just a bunch of tiny rocks.
Sand is so overrated. It’s just tiny little rocks.
She’s gonna be drunk and stupid now
That is the oldest trick in the stalker book
That’s Paaaaatrick…Baaaby Boy.
The only Valentine’s Day cards I get are from my mother
The plane crashed. I didn’t crash the plane.
what if he wakes up all half-baked?…half-baked…:::laughs::: mmm that sounds really good
Where’s the self-help section?
Wish me happy Valentine’s Day when you call, that’d be nice…
You’re kinda closed-mouthed are’nt you?
[as Joel and Clementine eat out, he thinks about the other glum-looking couples in the restaurant:]
Joel: Are we like couples you see in restaurants? Are we the dining dead?
[Clementine and Joel have broken into an empty house on the Montauk beach]
Joel : I think we should go.
Clementine : No, it’s our house! Just tonight…
[she looks at an envelope on the counter]
Clementine : …we’re David and Ruth Laskin. Which one do you want to be? I’d like to be Ruth, but I can be flexible.
[Clementine is leading Joel out onto the frozen Charles River]
Joel : I don’t know. What if it breaks?
Clementine : What if? Do you really care right now?
[Clementine is trying to comfort baby Joel by showing him her crotch]
Clementine : My crotch is still here, just as you remembered it.
Joel : Yuck!
[Hammering noises in the background]
Rob : Fuck!
Carrie : Rob, give it a rest.
Rob : Carrie, I am making a birdhouse.
[Mary reads to Dr. Mierzwiak out of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations; the lines are from Alexander Pope’s poem Eloisa to Abelard]
Mary : How happy is the blameless Vestal’s lot! / The world forgetting, by the world forgot / Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! / Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d.
[Patrick and Stan are discussing Patrick’s new relationship with Clementine, whose memory they had erased the week before]
Patrick: Well, when we were doing her last week, I fell in love with her.
Stan: You fell in love with her? She was unconscious.
Patrick: Yeah, but she looked so beautiful… I stole her panties as well.
Stan: You what?
Patrick: Her panties. Well, I mean, they’re not… I mean, they were clean and everything.
[trying to comfort baby Joel]
Clementine: Hey Joel, look, it’s my crotch. Just like you remember.
Joel: Yuck.
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