Vanilla Sky (2001) - Quotes

Confronting Mortality and Life's Memories

Brian Shelby: My own death was in front of me, and you know what happened? Your life flashed before my eyes.

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The Pain of Solitude and Loneliness

Brian Shelby: You will never know the exquisite pain of the guy who goes home alone.

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The Dual Nature of Love

Brian Shelby: You can do whatever you want with your life, but one day you'll know what love truly is. It's the sour and the sweet. And I know sour, which allows me to appreciate the sweet.

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Promise of Reunion

Sofía Serrano: I'll find you again.

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A Secret Invitation to Connect

Sofía Serrano: Come here... I want to tell you a secret.

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A Misunderstanding of Affection

Sofía Serrano: I meant that to be your forehead.

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Life-Altering Realizations and Self-Doubt

Sofía Serrano: Holy God. This is going to change my life in a zillion different ways. I must be nuts.

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Optimism and Positivity in Life

Sofía Serrano: But I just think good things will happen, if you are a good person with a good attitude, don't you think?

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Embracing New Opportunities in Every Moment

Sofía Serrano: Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

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The Saddest Girl with a Martini

Sofía Serrano: I think she's the saddest girl to ever hold a martini.

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Another Life as Cats

Sofía Serrano: I'll tell you in another life when we are both cats.

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Embracing Delayed Gratification

David Aames: I am a pleasure delayer.

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Indifference to Divine Interruptions

David Aames: I don't care if God calls, I'm very, very busy.

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The Nature of Casual Relationships

David Aames: You keep the relationship casual, until the absolute breaking point. And then one evening or afternoon or morning, it could be months from now. Well, you know how it works

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A New Beginning for David Aames

David Aames: A new form of me began to take shape. I planned my reemergence, like the Normandy invasion. (Sofia, Sofia...) I'll just say it - I did my homework. I read every memo. Thomas Tipp was right: People will read again.

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Confronting Reality Through Alcohol and Regret

David Aames: [[w:Jack Daniels|Jack Daniels; [w:Frank Sinatra|Frank Sinatra] You're not blind. You're drinking ], and when you drink Jack, you start in with that... ], she shot me down, give me a cigarette, "King of Sad" thing.

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Desire for Authentic Living

David Aames: I want to live a real life... I don't want to dream any longer.

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Desire for awakening and relief from confusion

David Aames: I wanna wake up! Tech support! It's a nightmare! Tech support! Tech support!

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Intense Pain and Mental Struggle

David Aames: These? These are more than headaches. These are steel plates slicing through my every thought.

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The Price of Happiness After Trauma

David Aames: Doc, once you've been driven off a bridge at 80 miles an hour, somehow you don't invite happiness in without a full body search.

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Love Amidst Life and Death

David Aames: Look at us. I'm frozen, and you're dead. And I love you.

Confronting Loss and Identity in Vanilla Sky

David Aames: I remember. Somebody died. It was me.

A Regretful Moment of Loss

David Aames: I lost you when I got in that car. I'm sorry.

Confrontation on Perception and Reality

David Aames: Good. Because for a minute there I thought we were talking about A FUCKING MASK!!!

The Significance of Little Things

David Aames: The little things... there's nothing bigger, is there?

The Consequences of a Captivating Smile

David Aames: That smile's gonna be the end of me.

Dreams as a Source of Torment

David Aames: My dreams are a cruel joke. They taunt me. Even in my dreams, I'm an idiot who knows he's about to wake up to reality. If I could only avoid sleep. But I can't. I try to tell myself what to dream. I try to dream that I am flying. Something free. It never works...

The Illusion of Eternal Youth

David Aames: Isn’t that what being young is about, believing secretly that you would be the one person in the history of man that would live forever?

Finding Uniqueness in Unexpected Places

David Aames: I dug her completely. Some how I'd found the last semi-guy less girl in New York City.

Legacy of a Fearless Publisher

David Aames: [[w:21st century|21st century; [w:McDonald's|McDonald's; [w:TV Digest|the TV Digest] Primer on David Aames Senior. My father wasn't built for the ]. He never went to ], not once. He never watched television, and yet... his biggest magazine is still ]. He and my mother threw the grandest parties of the literary world. Ballooned. Jumped out of airplanes. He sought adventure. His autobiography is the manual... for every cutthroat publisher in New York City.