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| KEY QUOTES THE AWFUL TRUTH GRACE: “I hate my creative writing teacher…He like publicly humiliates me." DIMITRI: “It isn’t! It ISN’T fair! Who you love, who you hate, who changes your life, none of it’s fair.” GRACE: “And I kind of prefer Grace to Gracie.” DIMITRI: “You know who I think about a lot? Proust. Proust and Emily Dickenson. I mean, they were so scared they never even left their rooms. You don’t have to become the bravest person who ever lived. Just the bravest writer.” ACTING OUT DIMITRI: “Grace. Everything means something.” DESTINY TURNS ON THE RADIO DIMITRI: "I have heard of…flirting." DIMITRI: “Chemistry?” GRACE: “Yeah, where…you know...Where it seems like you belong with someone…or something.” DIMITRI: “I think…you are PERFECT for this.” DIMITRI: “Careful, we wouldn’t want to let that guard down. Then where would we be?” DIMITRI: “I like this…this music. It’s, it’s all broken in, you know, like an old…chair. You can just curl up in it, rock.” CHAOS THEORY DIMITRI: “I’ll be Orlando.” GRACE: “To you I give myself, for I am yours.” DIMITRI: “If there be truth in sight, you are my Rosalind.” TOUGH LOVE GRACE: "How can you say Tad is doing an excellent job and not say ONE WORD TO ME?!" DIMITRI: “You remain in complete and total control at every moment and the audience is very impressed. But I don’t believe one word you say.” GRACE: "Why does she love [Orlando]?" DIMITRI: “Because he’s got no friends, no future, no hope, and he’s beginning to believe that the world might…might be better off without him.” DIMITRI: “Because you’re afraid. You’re afraid that you might FEEL something that you haven’t planned.” GRACE: “Well, if that’s what you’re waiting for, for me to just come out on stage and bare my soul or something, forget it. I’m not doing it.” DIMITRI: "I myself am a fraud. But you.are.not. You’re the real deal." DIMITRI: “Tonight you let everything inside you actually show. Which I believe is the only thing in the world worth doing. Although I’ve never been willing to do it…myself. So how did you do it? Do you know? I mean, what made tonight so different?” GRACE: “You. You made it different. What you said." "It doesn’t have to be a secret.” GRACE: “Can I taste it?” |
| GAY/STRAIGHT ALLIANCE GRACE: “And I guess I’m just the kind of person that people just assume…can walk.” GRACE: “Wait, that’s not…I mean I don’t think that that’s what poems should be. See, I just read these poems by this other person. And they just showed you like his entire life. How he thought and felt about everything. And it made you realize how you felt about everything.” GRACE: “See, in your car the other day I just felt like there was this…connection, that I couldn’t put into words, and then you put it into words. You did it for me. Look, I did something which I obviously shouldn’t have done, okay, but I’m glad I did it, because now I know…that I’m not alone. And that, is such an amazing thing…to know.” |
| DIMITRI: “Hey, try to remember these things during school hours next time, okay?” GRACE: “What I am saying is that if it's within your power to give someone hope, someone who really needs it, and instead you turn your back on them, I just think that's really horrible." GRACE: “I don’t care about the stupid dance. I don’t care about the Gay/Straight Alliance.” DIMITRI: “I know you don’t.” GRACE: “What else do you know?” DIMITRI: "If circumstances were different, I'd like nothing more than to be your friend. I'd WANT you to drop by my house. I'd lend you my book of poems I wrote when I was in my twenties which I'm now embarrassed by. I'd want you to call me August and not Mr. Dimitri and we would sit and talk for hours, but we CAN'T do that. We.can't.be.friends." |
| DIMITRI: "You'd better get out of the car now." GRACE: "Why?" EXPERIENCE IS THE TEACHER INSCRIPTION FROM DIMITRI: "For the girl with the loneliest eyes. Love always, August." DIMITRI: (About the film Rashomon) "You can really see how each person has their own view of what happened.” DIMITRI: (After hearing) "Some part of me knew that something like this might happen. But I needed my life to change and I used you to change it. Which doesn't mean I won't miss you...Read 'On Love.'..It's in that book I gave you. Read it. More than once." DIMITRI: “Don’t worry. You’ll figure out your ending.” |