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Lou Get in. What are you doing? What the fuck? You're going to ride in a rickshaw!

Margot A dog is like a starter for a kid.

Lou No, a dog is like a starter for a cow...or a bigger animal.

Margot I'd like to make a date to kiss you.

Daniel Well... my schedule's fairly flexible.

Margot Is it flexible in 30 years?

Daniel 30 years?

Margot I'd like to see you at the lighthouse in Louisbourg. I'd like to meet you there. I'll be 58, I don't know how old you'll be...

Daniel I'll be 59.

Margot I'd like to see you there, on this date, at... 2PM. Eastern Standard time. August 5th, 2040, I'd like to kiss you. Until then, I'm married. But after 35 years of being faithful to my husband I think I'll have earned one kiss from you.

Geraldine Life has a gap in it. It just does. You don't go crazy trying to fill it like some lunatic.

Daniel I've been thinking about that airport fear of yours, of being in between things. I think I kinda hate it too. I know it's kind of the nature of being alive, but I'd like to avoid it wherever possible. I don't think I wanna be in between things.

Margot I'm married.

Daniel Oh. That's too bad.

Daniel That's too bad cause I live right here.

Margot Oh shit.

Margot I'm afraid of being afraid.

Daniel That sounds like the most dangerous thing in the world.

Lou Maybe you should take a shower. It'll make you feel better.

Margot I don't want to take a shower.

Lou Just do me a favor, ok?

Margot You?

Lou Yeah.

Margot Every — ?

Lou Every day.

Margot There's no —

Lou There's no problem with the water. There's nothing to get fixed. I thought when we're 80, I'll tell Margot I've been doing this her whole life, and it'll make her laugh. As kind of a long-term joke.

Margot Sometimes I'm... walking along the street and a shaft of sunlight falls in a certain way across the pavement and I just wanna cry. And then a second later, it's over. I decide because I'm an adult, to not succumb to the momentary melancholy; and I thought that sometimes with Tony, she just had a moment like that. A moment of not known how or why, and she just let herself go into and there was nothing anyone could do to make it any better. It was just her and the fact of being alive, colliding.

Lou At least I have my testicles.

Daniel You seem restless, in a kind of permanent way.