Joel: Is there any risk of brain damage?
Howard: Well, technically speaking, the operation is brain damage, but it’s on a par with a night of heavy drinking. Nothing you’ll miss…
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Joel: Sand is overrated. It’s just tiny, little rocks.
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Clementine: You know me, I’m impulsive.
Joel: That’s what I love about you.
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Joel: [in the house on the beach] I really should go! I’ve gotta catch my ride.
Clementine: So go.
Joel: I did. I thought maybe you were a nut… but you were exciting.
Clementine: I wish you had stayed. Joel: I wish I had stayed to. NOW I wish I had stayed. I wish I had done a lot of things. I wish I had… I wish I had stayed. I do.
Clementine: Well I came back downstairs and you were gone!
Joel: I walked out, I walked out the door!
Clementine: Why?
Joel: I don’t know. I felt like I was a scared little kid, I was like… it was above my head, I don’t know.
Clementine: You were scared?
Joel: Yeah. I thought you knew that about me. I ran back to the bonfire, trying to outrun my humiliation.
Clementine: Was it something I said?
Joel: Yeah, you said “so go.” With such disdain, you know?
Clementine: Oh, I’m sorry.
Joel: It’s okay.
[Walking Out]
Clementine: Joely? What if you stayed this time?
Joel: I walked out the door. There’s no memory left.
Clementine: Come back and make up a good-bye at least. Let’s pretend we had one.
[Joel comes back]
Clementine: Bye Joel.
Joel: I love you…
Clementine: Meet me… in Montauk…
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Mary: How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d.
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Clementine: *Too many guys think I’m a concept, or I complete them, or I’m gonna make them alive. But I’m just a fucked-up girl who’s lookin’ for my own peace of mind; don’t assign me yours. *
Joel: I remember that speech really well.
Clementine: I had you pegged, didn’t I?
Joel: You had the whole human race pegged.
Clementine: Hmm. Probably.
Joel: I still thought you were gonna save my life… even after that.
Clementine: Ohhh… I know.
Joel: It would be different, if we could just give it another go-round.
Clementine: Remember me. Try your best; maybe we can.
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[Clementine is leading Joel out onto the frozen Charles River]
Joel: I don’t know. What if it breaks?
Clementine: What if? Do you really care right now?
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“grown-ups are, like, this mess of sadness and phobias.”
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“...Change your heart
Look around you
Change your heart
It will astound you
I need your lovin’
Like the sunshine
Everybody’s gotta learn sometime…”
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“From the wrinkles on my forehead
To the mud upon my shoe
Everything’s a memory
With strings that tie to you
In my dream I’m often running
To the place that’s out of you
Of every kind of memory
With strings that tie to you…”
( “Ethernal Sunshine of the Spotlless Mind”)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UwJtDRQkoE
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“Someone will remember us… even in another time.”
