Abandon Quotes

Embry Larkin This is the spirit dissolving in the music carrying up to God. Open up and let her rip. Don't perform... create. Say, Muse, I hate you, but I hate you on my knees. Scream, I am the infantile center of the goddamn universe! Everyone!

Female Interviewer How many pennies do you think it would take to fill this room?

Katie With or without us in it?

Embry Larkin Why won't you yell....Come on I dare you.

Male Interviewer Tell us about a problem you've encountered.

Katie My guidance counselor tried to keep me from applying to good schools. I thought she was my friend. She said she understood me and that I would be happier staying close to home, junior college or secretarial school. She hated me.

Male Interviewer What action did you take?

Katie I invited a senator who attended college here to speak at our school.

Male Interviewer And what was the result?

Katie I got a strong letter of recommendation from a U.S. Senator, was accepted early decision and they gave me lots of financial aid.

Male Interviewer And what did you learn from this experience?

Katie Truthfully?

Male Interviewer Of course.

Katie Mrs. Castleman was a sneaky bitch. It was the first time I was betrayed by someone I trusted. I looked up to her. I didn't come close to understanding the depth to which she resented me. I learned that people who help me, who invest in me become my partners, and my success is their success that relationships are symbiotic. I learned responsibility based on others faith in me. I hope to be able to pay some dividends to those investors.

Katie Do you know where Harrison is?

Embry The tree hugger? I don't really keep tabs on him

Katie Have you seen him lately?

Embry Wouldn't you like to know?

Katie You piss me off like nobody else, you know that?

Embry Yeah?

Katie Yeah.

Embry What are you gonna do about it, I want you to come away with me to the country house.

Katie Where is Harrison?

Embry I'll tell you at the country house.

Samantha Harper They want Vietnamese orphans... and engineers. God, why wasn't I born a Vietnamese orphan?

Samantha Harper I'll have a double order of escape fantasy and a side order of running away.

Embry Larkin You have no grace.

Embry Larkin I won't make stupid threats but your not gonna run away with this guy because wherever you go, I can follow you.... even if it's to the woods in New Hampshire.

Embry Larkin Sopranos, this piece was written by monks who believed in God. They're singing not to other monks but to God. They're singing about God to God. And you think I'm a tough audience.

Amanda Word is, you slaughtered it. I talked to Brian whose brother dates that cold fish, Susan. Did you really call some lady a bitch?

Katie Slight exaggeration.

Amanda Yeah, they saw sixty people and liked exactly two - you and a North Korean girl who speaks eight languages.

Katie They said that?

Embry Larkin I go away for a while a look what happens. You let the whole place fall apart.

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