From No One Knows About Persian Cats by Bahman Ghobadi
From The Flower of My Secret
Employer: Leo, we hired you to write love stories.
Leo: There's a love story in the novel.
Alicia: Where? I couldn't find it anywhere.
Leo: The restaurant owner who can't forget his ex-wife.
Alicia: The one who hires a hit-man to kill his mother-in-law so he can go to the funeral, see his ex-wife and convince her to come back to him?
Leo: Yes. That one.
From Hard Candy
Jeff Kohlver: You were coming on to me!
Hayley Stark: Oh, come on. That's what they always say, Jeff.
Jeff Kohlver: Who?
Hayley Stark: Who? The pedophiles! 'Oh, she was so sexy. She was asking for it.' 'She was only technically a girl, she acted like a woman.' It's just so easy to blame a kid, isn't it! Just because a girl knows how to imitate a woman, does NOT mean she's ready to do what a woman does.
[pause]
Hayley Stark: I mean, you're the grown up here. If a kid is experimenting and says something flirtatious, you ignore it, you don't encourage it! If a kid says 'Hey, let's make screwdrivers!' You take the alcohol away, and you don't race them to the next drink!
DIANE: You know, when I was a child I always
imagined I’d marry the man I fell in
love with, have a son and daughter who
loved me as much as I hated my mother,
then die tragically and suddenly,
young and beautiful. Later, when
Vincent left me, I imagined I’d finally
be happy.
LENNY: I guess you’ve never lost your imagination.
“
| — | From Happiness (1998) by Todd Solondz |
