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Favorite episode of Private Practice

21 Tuesday Dec 2010

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3×10 The one in which Addison’s mother turned out to be a lesbian. Amazing quotes. I love how Addie was wearing no make-up and dirty hair all the time, that was so… human. Probably the best acting of Kate Walsh so far, and maaan, she looks amazing even without make-up. Dell’s storyline was touching too. Even the love scene with Addie and Sam wasn’t that bad, maybe because he pushed her away 🙂 I love when he says ‘No, not this way’ and Addie goes ‘Please…’ and then she apologies to him. That’s where their relationship should have ended not started ;( Pete was amazing when he pretended to be Dell when Heather was dying, maaan, I love that man. 🙂 And when he kidnapped Betsy to say goodbye to her mother, so touching. I have no idea why Cooper tries to screw up his relationship with Charlotte, ass. I loved when Bizzy asked Violet how many times has she seen her husband. And Violet says ‘Once or Twice’ and Bizzy asks ‘Once or twice?’. And Violet responds ‘Twice, I believe, twice.’ I truly love how Sheldon has become Addison’s therapist. Episode very well written. I’ve  already seen it thousand times.

Addie: I hate him so much. For breaking her heart… For forcing her to do this. He cheated on her for 40 years. She had no one. She had no one to talk to, no one to comfort her. Of course she turned to Susan.

Addie:I know what it’s like, okay… to be rejected, to have your heart broken, to… be lonely.

Sheldon: Well, maybe you need to get off the elevator.

Addie: Mother, I’m just…I’m so sorry about what happened, about what he did to you.

Addie: I’m wrong. Bizzy, don’t… He drove you to kiss another woman.
Bizziy: Susan… has been with me for 20 years.
Addie: Yes, I know.  She’s worked with us for ages, which is why it’s…
Bizzy: Susan has been with me for 20 years. So, uh… shopping and then lunch?
Addie: Mother…Sit down.
Bizzy: There was one girl in boarding school when I was 14. And then there was the one in Switzerland on holiday when I was 17, but those don’t count. It was cold, and we were girls. Then I met Susan.
Addie: And the captain? Did you ever love him? Oh, my… Bizzy, why did you marry him?
Bizzy: We’re from Connecticut. My father is a Bradford Forbes.
Addie: Okay, so… let me get this straight. You were the cheating whore, not dad?
Bizzy: I’m gonna go. If you’re gonna talk like that, I’ll go. You have no idea how difficult it was.
Addie: Oh, come on, Bizzy. How hard could it have been? I mean, nothing was expected of you. All you had to was order the housekeeper around, run your charities and screw your husband every Wednesday night. How complicated is that?
Bizzy: You have no idea. You don’t know me. You don’t know me. You don’t know anything. You don’t know one single thing about me. I could have done things. I could have… been things. But I’m a Forbes. So I got married because that was what I was supposed to do. And I chose your father because he asked and he was nice and he seemed like he wouldn’t suffocate me. And by the time I realized my mistake, I had children. So I made a life. I did what I could with what I had. And I may not have been in love with your father, but I loved him. I do love him. And I loved you and your brother. And so instead of doing what I wanted to, which was run or slit my wrists, I threw birthday parties and I smiled and I kept my mouth shut. And I raised you and your brother, and you both turned out brilliantly. Susan was for me. Susan was the one thing that was for me. My children took everything else. And I’m sorry, but until you have a child, you have no idea what it’s like to be a mother. You have no idea the sacrifices a woman makes when she has children. So don’t you dare judge me.

Addie: Just give me one good reason why my entire childhood was a lie… one good reason.
Captain: We were trying to protect you and Archer.
Addie: Really? Because I’m a cheater, Archer’s a cheater. We’re all these awesome cheaters. So, you know, that’s a bunch of crap… protecting us. I want a good reason.
Captain: She’s the love of my life. We’ve been married for 40 years… 40 years. My entire adult life, she has been at my side. I love her. She’s my best friend. She’s my… everything. It’s not her fault, you know? She didn’t know. We didn’t know. And when we did… She’s the love of my life. It’s complicated. Love is complicated.
Addie: Being a lesbian is not a choice. She’s not going to change her mind. Hell, she’s practically screwing Susan right under your nose.
Captain: The mouth on you…you know… she sleeps with one woman. I sleep with all the rest. So what?!
Addie: And that’s good enough for you? My entire life, I thought she was this poor, pathetic woman. I thought it was my|job to cover for you. And it made me hate you. I mean, don’t you understand? I hated the wrong parent. I… my cheating? I thought I got it from you. But now I know that you’re the poor, pathetic one, because you love her, and she loves someone else. But you stay. This is like some pathetic, sad, afterschool special, which is just awful, because now, now I hate you both.

My favourite ShondaLand characters

08 Wednesday Dec 2010

Posted by Joanne in amy brenneman, Kate Walsh, private practice, tv series

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Characters from Private Practice/Greys Anatomy mixed all together, in a particular order.

1. Addison Montgomery

2. Violet Turner

3. Charlotte King

4. Meredith Grey

5. Arizona Robbins

6. Izzie Stevens

7. Naomi Bennett

8. Teddy Altman

9. Callie Torrez

10. Cristina Yang

11. Cooper Friedman

12. Derek Shepard

13. Pete Wilder

14. Sheldon Wallace

15. Alex Carev

1. Addie is always going to be my favorite, yes, she’s pretty annoying in 4th season. I can’t stand her with Sam, he made her weak. Though she always reminds me that even a successful woman, is just a woman, and falls for the wrong guys, just like anybody else. Favorite Addie’s episode, definitely the one when she finds out her mother’s gay. That was a very good acting, best drama scene from season 3, and Kate looks gorgeous without makeup. The other episode is of course the one when she and Sam found the couple while hiking, before the woman died she said she’s gonna name her Addison, that was incredible. Addie was the best character in season 1 and season 2, and best ever on Greys.

3. Violet – I’ve always loved Violet. She’s an amazing friend, a shrink, and she’s gorgeous. Amy Brenneman is an amazing actress. I loved how Violet went crazy in 3rd season, I get that, wish I didn’t. She almost died because of some psycho bitch. I loved how she couldn’t take care of her baby because of what happened to her. I always loved her, and she made season 3 my favorite.

3. Charlotte…favorite scene on the airplane, when she cried in Cooper’s arms, I love when she has pangs of conscience, every time she has some weak moment. And after what happened to her in season 4, she broke me and I’m starting to like her even more.

Private Practice s04e10

04 Saturday Dec 2010

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Yesterday’s Private Practice that was wow, something. Poor Charlotte. Coop’s quote:

My girlfriend gets attacked. She wants to go home, I take her home.
She wants to go to work, I drive her.
I found out she wasn’t just attacked, she was raped.
She tells me she doesn’t want to I.D. The guy, I say, “okay, don’t I.D. The guy.”
I’m cheerful, I’m attentive, I make breakfast for her every morning.
My job right now is good man in the storm. I get that. I’m good with that.
I want that. But the charlotte I fell in love with… Is gone.
She doesn’t exist anymore. The laughing, the sharing in the good and bad of the day, Holding each other—That’s all over.
It’s like… It’s like she’s dead. It’s like Charlotte is dead, and I have the
good-man-in-the-storm job. I am the fiancé of the victim.
My job is to hold up the corpse that was once Charlotte and smile.

Private Practice Season 4 Episodes 1-5

22 Friday Oct 2010

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I love reviewing my favorite TV series, so that’s what I’ll start doing on here.

Private Practice 4.01

My favorite scenes include: Amelia trying to light up a cigarette, and Addison throwing her cigs out, then at cementary everyone recalling what happened to them last year and Violet’s : What the hell is going on with the world? Then Violet announced her and Pete are getting married, which was a little bit inappropriate. Later some awful couple left their child in the car in full heat, wanting another child to repair their mistake, some guy wanted a kidney from his mentally challenged brother. Then we had the wedding, or ratherViolet changing her mind at the altar, and fleeing! Thankfully, Pete calmed her down and they finally married.

6/10

Private Practice 4.02

I liked the second episode more than the first one. AddiSam is getting on my nerves big time. I love the merging practices thing! William died and Naomi made a beautiful speech. Episode also featured a mother giving marijuana to her autistic kid. I’m so sorry for Violet/Coop, their friendship’s amazing, why do they have to stop spending so much time together. Stupid marriages. Addie told Nay about her and Sam. My favorite storyline was with a woman named Jane who caught off her penis, that was heartbreaking! Good episode!

10/10

Private Practice 4.03

Sam almost killed the guy who hit Maya and Dell last season, when he showed up to apologize,  Sam’s reaction was perfect. He yelled:

“Some things don’t deserve to be forgiven!”

This episode included a flashback of Addison and Sam’ surgery residency. We now know why Sam quit surgery (because he let the pedophile die). Addison looked so innocent with that brown hair. Amelia got a job at the practice. Pete risked loosing his licence by helping his friend carry out an illegal operation. Violet was amazing this ep. I just looooved Naomi’s speech about Addie:

“You’re selfish, Addison. You always have been. The tunnel vision that makes you a great surgeon also makes you a crappy friend… You’re a cheater, and while Sam and I aren’t married anymore, you knew what you were doing was wrong, and so you lied to me…Every day you didn’t tell me about the two of you, you lied, because you knew telling the truth would be hard…And you’re a coward…You’re my best friend. But when I look at you now…I just want to slap you across the face.”

10/10

Private Practice 4.04

Violet was exceptionally amazing this episode. I was so pissed off at Pete for not letting her adopt Betsey, and at the rest of the characters for not wanting to adopt her too. They’ve been saying they are all one big family, so how the so called family can’t take care of a little girl? It’s awful to say, but now Betsy should end up in an abusive family, just to explain why on Earth none of them took her in. The scene with Violet spilling the sodas to make Betsy feel better, broke my heart. And when she begs everyone to take care of Dell’s daughter, everyone pretended not to hear her. It was hard to glue myself together after this. And the last scene when they all leave in slow motion with that amazing song in the background! One of the most tearful, best episodes we’ve had.

Violet: She brought her back to the only family that she has left.
Violet: We’re not placing betsey in the system. Everybody in her life has abandoned her.
Violet: Help. She needs help, which Dell would’ve given any one of us without a second thought… If he were still alive.

Violet: Hey, I was looking for you. Feel like getting a snack?
Betsey: This is my daddy’s office. He used to have crayons And paper.
Violet: Yeah. I remember. You two had a lot ofun in here. You know, he loved you so much. And I know that when|someone you love goes away, It feels icky. And it’s confusing because you have all these feelings that you don’t understand. But I want you to know that… All of us here care about you… So much… And that you can|tell anything to me. Okay? Anything at all.
Betsey: Where am I gonna sleep tonight?
Violet: How about you come home with me?

Violet: Pete! Pete, lucas is not in his crib!
Betsey: My daddy and I used to watch cartoons together. I thought maybe lucas would like them.
Betsey: Can I stay with you forever?

Violet: Oh, just to see her smile… She’ll need daily therapy, at least at the beginning, But I think we could see real improvements in a few months.
Pete: Wait. You want her to stay with us?
Violet: I think we should adopt her.
Pete: Violet, that’s not a|good idea for any of us.
Violet: When you think about it,We are exactly who should be doing this, ’cause I’m a therapist, and– and even more than that, I get Betsey.That sense of being damaged? I know what that can turn into. We’re building a family. And there’s no reason that Betsey can’t be a part of that. We can do this.
Pete: Can we?
Violet: Absolutely. You don’t think I can do this. You don’t think I have it in me after… I’m fine. I am fine now.
Pete: Violet, I’m not– she’s a child.
Violet: She needs someone. She needs us. And I am fine.

Violet: I need to ask if anyone here is willing to… take Betsey. Please. Because I can’t, and, um…One of us needs to step up. Please.

Betsey: Don’t you want to take care of me?
Violet: I love spending time with you.
Betsey: Where will I go?
Violet: I don’t know exactly. But… Here’s what I hope will happen. I hope that you will get to go to a home, A home with a mom and dad Who have always wanted a little girl, A mom and dad of your very own, Who will love you so much Because they’re gonna see how special you are. And that will be better for you than living with us, Because your new family… They have been waiting Just for you. Doesn’t that sound good?

Violet: We did a bad thing here. You all know it. We did a bad thing.

10/10

Private Practice 4.05

I feel so sorry for the guy who spent 30 years in prison, I get why he wanted to stay in jail. But when he threatened Violet, that left me uneasy. Dr. Rodriguez is here, I already ship him with Addie! I am so tired of AddieSam. Everybody wants Sheldon, but I understand what he meant when he said that he would eventually fall for Amelia, and she’d avoid him. Addie and Charlotte arguing, neve gets old! Pete’s acting like an ass, first he doesn’t want Betsy, now he’s mad Violet’s spending time with her patients.

Charlotte: I’m not the mommy type. I don’t like kids, and I don’t want kids. They’ll like you more than they’ll like me. I’m not…What if I end up like my mother, drunk at noon, Hating the rug rats I’m supposed to love, Screwing up our kid damaging them? See? Now you’re gonna leave me. This is why I didn’t want to talk about this.
Cooper: Charlotte, I’m not leaving you.

Sheldon: Let me tell you how this would go. Uh… We’d sleep together. And at first, it would be just for kicks, But enentually, I’d fall for you, hard. And then you would do wh women like you–the bad girls, The ones who like it dirty, And nasty, and a-a little bit kinky You know, the ones withererious daddy issues do, You’d run. You’d avoid me. You’d be intentionally mean to me. My savior complex would kick in, So I’d chase you, keep calling you, let you use me for sex On the nights when you were drunk or bored. But you’re too damaged to appreciate the fact That I’m a good guy and I could actually care. And then one day, I’d show up at your apartment with flowers or something Trying to woo you, only to find you on your couch Screwing somguguy ten years younger than me.

10/10

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About me

I am the dark and twisty Meredith Grey, the mad Dexter Morgan, hoping to grow up to be a little more like the wise, but fun Nora Walker. I am an aspiring filmmaker. My favorite actresses are Jodie Foster, Sally Field and Julianne Moore. Favorite genre – psychological drama. I watch anything with a sexual or mental abuse plot. I used to be a horror freak. I am obsessed with Grey’s Anatomy, SVU and many more. My other interests include making oil and pencil portraits and wildlife conservation. I cannot say no to beautiful landscapes, travel, Aussie accent, TV/film quotes and avocados. I have recently moved back from Australia to the UK. I’ve been running this blog for the last 9 years. Here I comment on films and episodes I watch. Enjoy! – Joanne

currently following on tv

currently (re)watching

dexter final season

shows I need to catch up on

Feud
Transparent
Gentleman Jack

will watch at the cinema

Last films watched at the pictures that I loved

the substance
blink twice

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my twitter bios

15.04.2011 ‘You forgot the number one rule about remakes: never fuck with the original.’ (Scream 4)

01.06.2011 ‘We need to become doers.’ 2×16 ‘You’re a doer, remember?’ 5×22 (Greys)

5.08.2011 “It’s just… Meredith always makes me think screwed up people have a chance.” (Greys)

9.10.2011 ‘You be wowed, I’ll be drunk.’ (The Big C)

10.11.2011 ‘George is dead and Izzie is gone and we’re all different. We’re different.’ (Greys)

17.12.2011 ‘I thought I was headed in the right direction. My Dark Passenger back behind the wheel. But if I was so sure I knew where I was going…How did I get so lost?’ (Dexter)

23.01.2012 ‘You’re drowning, Grey.’ (Greys)

18.11.2012 ‘You’re a serial killer and I’m more fucked up than you are.’ (Dexter)

7.05.2013 ‘I think my antidepressants just kicked in.’ (The Big C)

10.05.2015 ‘The sad widow is my friend. My best friend.’ (Greys)

My tumblr titles

10.10.10 – ‘Like I said, I’m screwed.’ (Greys)

15.04.11 – ‘It’s just a good story.’ (Greys)

22.06.11 – ‘I should have fought for you, Violet.’ (Private Practice)

20.12.11 – ‘I am a father, a son, a serial killer.’ (Dexter)

8.08.12 – ‘You have to pick the girl who lives.’ (The Big C)

5.10.12 – ‘You are my person. You will always be my person.’ (Greys)

10.11.12 – ‘Thirty second dance party. Dance or you’re fired.’ (Greys)

19.02.13 – ‘There’s nowhere on Earth I’d rather be right now.’ (Castle)

29.07.13 – ‘The family that kills together.’ (Dexter)

15.01.15 – ‘Let’s go home.’ (Parenthood)

20.05.2015 – ‘The sad widow is my friend, my best friend.’ (Greys)

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favourite film and tv quotes

‘When I lived in Porpoise Spit, I used to sit in my room for hours and listen to ABBA songs. But since I’ve met you and moved to Sydney, I haven’t listened to one Abba song. That’s because my life is as good as an Abba song. It’s as good as Dancing Queen.’ (Muriel’s Wedding)

‘I used to think about
your life in New York. I tried to imagine your room. I kept track of the time difference, so I  knew when you were awake and when you were asleep.’ (Disobedience)

‘Nothing’s clean, Howard. But we do our best, right?’ (The Aviator)

‘No, I’m not quitting. I don’t quit things.’
‘No, actually you do. Your mother quit your father. Your father quit you. You quit your boyfriend and if I read your hospital chart correctly you quit your life momentarily on a couple of occasions. You quit. It’s what you know how to do.’ (Greys)

‘Where the hell was I that year?’
‘Your were watching television’. (Everybody Loves Raymond)

‘It’s impossible to worry about anything else when there’s blood coming out of you.’
(Short Term 12)

‘I wanted it to happen. And when we were girls… Even then, it was the same. It’s always been this way! I have always wanted it.’ (Disobedience)

‘Sometimes it’s easy, sometimes you play games in your head. You make up someone, someone good.’ (Greys)

‘There comes a moment when our lives change forever. The moment we admit our weaknesses, the moment we rise to a challenge, the moment we accept a sacrifice, or let a loved one go. And sometimes the change in our lives is an answer to our prayers.’ (Desperate Housewives)

‘Yesterday I went to the movies all day by myself. One after the other. I’ve never done that before. I had a really happy day.’ (Doing Time for Patsy Cline)

‘I just need something to happen. I need a sign that things are going to change. I need a reason to go on. I need some hope. And in the absence of hope, I need to stay in bed a feel like I might die today.’ (Greys)

‘She saved me my whole life. Without her, I’m nothing.’ (The Favourite)

‘Don’t wonder why people go crazy. Wonder why they don’t. In face of what we can lose in a day, in an instant, wonder what the hell it is that make us hold it together.’  (Greys)

‘Bree sobbed quietly in the restroom for five miutes, but her husband never knew, because when Bree finally emerged, she was perfect.’ (Desperate Housewives)

‘I am not food, you cannot just eat and eat.’ (The Favourite)

‘I don’t love him.’
‘Of course you do.’
‘No!’
‘Don’t take me for a fool Olive,  I’m many things but I’m not a fool.’
‘I know that, you’re brilliant.’
‘Don’t you see, it’s over. Whatever this is, was, it’s over.’
‘I love You.’ (Professor Marston and the Wonder Women)

‘At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing, is reason enough to celebrate.’ (Greys)

‘Many years ago, a neighbour and a good friend of ours took her life, and that left us all heartbroken and perplexed. But somehow, when I was alone in that hotel room, I forget about all the pain that she caused. In those awful moments, I thought maybe she had the answer.‘ (Desperate Housewives)

‘What happened last year when you fell in the water?’
‘I almost drowned. Do you think I did that for kicks?’
‘You put your hand in a body cavity that contained unexploded ammunition.’
‘I was trying to save a patient!’
‘Why is it that every other person in that room had the sense to hit the deck? You know people run away from this line between life and death. You seem to stand on it and wait for a strong wind to sway you one way or the other. You’re careless with your life. You’re not slitting your wrists but you’re careless. Probably because your mother told you you were a waste of space on this planet. The problem is you believed her. And if you don’t want out one of these days you’re going to die because of it.’  (Greys)

‘This is the street where I used to live and these were the people with whom I shared my life. I met them the day they moved in. And I saw what they brought with them. Beautiful dreams for the future. And quiet hopes for a better life. Not just for themselves, but for their children, too. If I could, would I tell them what lies ahead? Would I warn them of the sorrow and betrayal that lie in store? No. From where I stand now, I see enough of the road to understand how it must be traveled. The trick is to keep moving forward, to let go of the fear and the regret that slow us down and keep us from enjoying a journey that will be over too soon. Yes, there will be unexpected bends in the road, shocking surprises we didn’t see coming, but that’s really the point. Don’t you think?’ (Desperate Housewives)

‘Was your life not working when you let that slip out from under you?’
‘When are you going to stop suggesting that I’m suicidal?’
‘When you start acting like someone that wants to be alive.’
‘Give me my chart.’
‘Why?’
‘Because I’m not suicidal, and if it says that I am, then it’s wrong.’ (Greys)

‘There is nothing wrong with me.’
‘Then show me your arm.’ (Degrassi)

‘Look, my whole life, I have been the freak. The girl who nobody picked for dodgeball. The girl who didn’t have a mom. The girl who dressed funny because it was her dad buying her clothes. And then, tonight I looked at these people, and I thought maybe there’s a future where I don’t have to be a freak. Maybe I can be who I am and that’s okay.’ (Everything Sucks)

‘Dr, I have been this way since…since I can remember. There is no cure.’ (American Horror Story)

‘He was so crazy about me, I couldn’t breathe. So we tried drinking our way back into love, but it never made sense in the morning. So I ran. And every time I came back, he was here. And he was still crazy about me.’ (My Blueberry Nights)

‘Bree van de Kamp had always wanted to live her life with elegance and grace. That is also how she wanted to die. Her plan was to pour herself a glass of her favorite chardonnay, put on her most stylish nightgown and leave behind a note on embossed stationery.’ (Desperate Housewives)

‘All we have is this moment. The future is just a fucking concept that we use to avoid being alive today. So be… here…. now.’ (Six Feet Under)

‘On the train coming here, we were in the same cart, I saw you, you were reading and you feel asleep. I didn’t dare to look at you, you were so beautiful, it was scary. Afterwards,  I couldn’t stop thinking about you. It made me smile. Then I thought of all the men who would get to hold you, who’d make you laugh. How lucky they were.’ (Enemy at the Gates)

‘It was a good day. Maybe even a great day. Even when it was hard, I was the me in my head. There was a moment when I thought I cant do this, I cant do this alone. I close my eyes and imagine myself doing it, and I did, I blocked out the fear, and I did it.’ (Greys)

‘There comes a time when we must expose our weaknesses. When our secrets can no longer remain private, when our solitude can no longer be denied, when our pain can no longer be ignored, but sometimes we feel so alone that a weakness we thought we’d overcome suddenly becomes too strong to fight.’ (Desperate Housewives)

‘Why did you get married, Esti? Why didn’t you just leave? So everything was all right when I left?’
‘No. I was ill.’
‘What sort of ill?’
‘In my head.’
‘If I had to sleep with a man, why not with our best friend?’
‘Oh, Esti…’
‘It hasn’t been a complete disaster.’
‘And that’s enough?! Do you have to have sex every Friday?’
‘It’s expected.’
‘It’s medieval. What happened to you?’
‘Nothing. You happened to me. And then I started teaching and that became important. I give them ambition.’
‘To do what? Push out seven babies and be a good wife?’
‘Don’t. Don’t. I help them to value themselves.’
‘Okay, but what about you?’
‘That is me. And you? Are you happy?’
‘Yes, I am.’
‘Have you been with other women?’
‘No. Not really. And you?’
‘No.’
‘But, Esti… Do you still
only fancy women?’ (Disobedience)

‘OK, then, listen. Let’s not get caught.’
‘What are you talkin’ about?’
‘Let’s keep goin’!’
‘What d’you mean?’
‘Go.’
‘You sure?’
‘Yeah. Yeah.’ (Thelma & Louise)

‘She let me live at Nora’s house. She let me believe that I was a part of their family. I fell in love with that family. What am I supposed to do, just sit there, pretend I’m related to them? I was happy. For the first time in my life I was happy.’ (Brothers and Sisters)

‘You will be left all alone with your bitterness and your rage and your knowledge that you loved her and she loved you and you threw it away for them.’
‘Do you love her?’
‘Yes.’
‘And Have you always?’
‘Yes.’
‘So then ask her.’
‘Olive, will you forgive me?’ (Professor Marston and the Wonder Women)

‘No razors, no scissors, no fucking freedom.’
(Short Term 12)

‘You can’t take a picture of this. It’s already gone.’ (Six Feet Under)

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