Celine: It's amazing what perverts we've become in the past nine years.
Celine: The concept is absurd. The idea that we can only be complete with another person is evil! Right?
Jesse: You realise that most of the people that you meet are trying to get somewhere better, they're trying to make a little bit more cash, trying to get a little more respect, have more people admire them. It's just exhausting.
Jesse: Oh, God, why didn't we exchange phone numbers and stuff? Why didn't we do that?
Celine: Because we were young and stupid.
Jesse: Do you think we still are?
Celine: I guess when you're young, you just believe there'll be many people with whom you'll connect with. Later in life, you realise it only happens a few times.
Jesse: And you can screw it up, you know, misconnect.
Jesse: I don't have any permanent place here. You know, in eternity, or whatever. And the more I think that, I can't go through life saying that this is no big deal. I mean, this is it! This is actually happening. What do you think is interesting, what do you think is funny, what do you think is important? You know, every day is our last.
Jesse: Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we wouldn't learn a thing.
Celine: The concept is absurd. The idea that we can only be complete with another person is evil! Right?
Jesse: Maybe what I'm saying is, is the world might be evolving the way a person evolves. Right? Like, I mean, me for example. Am I getting worse? Am I improving? I don't know. When I was younger, I was healthier, but I was, uh, whacked with insecurity, you know? Now I'm older and my problems are deeper, but I'm more equipped to handle them.
Jesse: I have this idea of my best self, and I wanted to pursue that even if it might have been overriding my honest self.
Jesse: I'm designed to feel slightly dissatisfied.
Jesse: We're just living in a pretense of a marriage responsibility, and all these ideas of how people are supposed to live.
Celine: Memories are wonderful things, if you don't have to deal with the past.
Jesse: Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we'd never learn anything.
Celine: I see it in the people that do the real work, and what's sad in a way is that the people that are the most giving, hardworking, and capable of making this world better, usually don't have the ego and ambition to be a leader.
Celine: Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.
Celine: Were you there in Vienna, in December?
