Happiness Campaign: Quotations
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kataylaWelcome to my Happiness Campaign! The premise is simple: I share some of my favorite fandom things in hopes of bringing happiness to my flist and anyone else who stumbles across my journal.
I'm a word person, so, for me, one of the best things about TV shows is a good quote. I have 81-page document on my computer with quotations from TV shows, books, and movies. That's rather a lot to share, so I decided to pick out some of my absolute favorites . . . and still had 18 pages! So I got really ruthless and tried to pick only the quotes that would make sense even to people unfamiliar with the show (I also cut out later Buffy and Angel quotes, so as to not to spoil my beloved![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
torigates).
Here's what I ended up with:
Vaughn: This watch belonged to my father. It’s broken now, but it used to keep perfect time. And when he gave it to me, he said, “You could set your heart by this watch.” It stopped October 1. The day we met.
“Passage, Part 1,” Alias
Jack: Sydney Bristow, my daughter, has come to believe that when I look at her, I see the embodiment of all my flaws. This afternoon, when I learned she may have been exposed to a life-threatening disease, I realized she might die believing that. But nothing could be further from the truth. When I look at her, when I look at the little girl who raised herself to become one of the most extraordinary human beings and one of the finest agents I’ve ever had the privilege of knowing, I see only the promise of my own redemption. Turning myself in was the only way I could think of to make that clear to her. To prove that despite my limited abilities as a father, I love her more than I could ever say.
“Salvation,” Alias
Buffy: I don’t know what I’m supposed to say.
Giles: You needn’t say anything.
Buffy: Be simpler if I could just hate him. I think he wanted me to. I think it made it easier for him to be the villain of the piece. Really he was just scared.
Giles: Yes, I suppose he was.
Buffy: Nothing’s ever simple anymore. I’m constantly trying to work it out. Who to love or hate, who to trust. It’s just like the more I know, the more confused I get.
Giles: I believe that’s called growing up.
Buffy: I’d like to stop then, okay?
Giles: I know the feeling.
Buffy: Does it ever get easy?
Giles: You mean life?
Buffy: Yeah. Does it get easy?
Giles: What do you want me to say?
Buffy: Lie to me.
Giles: Yes, it’s terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true. The bad guys are easily distinguished by their point horns or black hats. And, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies and everybody lives happily ever after.
Buffy: Liar.
“Lie to Me,” Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Spike: You’re not friends. You’ll never be friends. You’ll be in love till it kills you both. You’ll fight and you’ll shag and you’ll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you’ll never be friends. Love isn’t brains, children, it’s blood, blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love’s bitch, but at least I’m man enough to admit it.
“Lover’s Walk,” Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Angel: You still my girl?
Buffy: Always.
“Enemies,” Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy: Believe it or not, Jonathan, I understand about the pain.
Jonathan: Oh, right, because the burden of being beautiful and athletic, that’s a crippler.
Buffy: You know what? I was wrong. You are an idiot. My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it, sometime more than I can handle. And it’s not just mine. Every single person down there is ignoring your pain because they’re too busy with their own. The beautiful ones, the popular ones, the guys that pick on you, everyone. If you could hear what they were feeling . . . the loneliness, the confusion. It looks quiet down there. It’s not. It’s deafening.
“Earshot,” Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Joey: We talk like we know what’s going on, but we don’t. We don’t have any idea. Look, we’re really young and we’re going to screw up a lot. You know, we’re going to keep changing our minds and sometimes even our hearts. And through all of that, the only real thing we can offer each other is forgiveness. And I couldn’t do that. Or at least I did it too late. Don’t let yourself get so angry that you stop loving because one day you will wake up from that anger and the person you love will be gone.
“Homecoming,” Dawson’s Creek
Jen: My Grams is dating a 60-year-old African American man whose name is Clifton Smalls.
Joey: What? I guess that’s a good thing?
Jen: It is. Actually, it’s a really great thing. Do you want to know why?
Joey: I guess so.
Jen: It’s a great thing because it means that no matter how many good looking boys consistently disappoint us or how many times we’re convinced that this universe is going to begin and end with one of these moronic losers that someday, when all of this crap is over with, there might be our very own Clifton Smalls waiting for us.
“Cigarette Burns,” Dawson’s Creek
Jackie: Oh, Rose, have something to eat.
Rose: 200,000 years in the future, he’s dying, and there’s nothing I can do.
Jackie: Well, like you said, 200,000 years, it’s way off.
Rose: But it’s not, it’s now. That fight is happening right now. And he’s fighting for us! For the whole planet! And I’m just sitting here eating chips!
Jackie: Listen to me. God knows I have hated that man, bur right now I love him, and do you know why? ‘Cause he did the right thing. He sent you back to me.
Rose: But what do I do every day, Mum? What do I do? Get up, catch the bus, go to work, come back home, eat chips, and go to bed, is that it?
Mickey: That’s what the rest of us do.
Rose: But I can’t!
Mickey: Why, ‘cause you’re better than us?
Rose: No, I didn’t mean that! But it was. It was a better life. And I don’t mean all the traveling and seeing aliens and spaceships and things, that don’t matter. The Doctor showed me a better way of living your life. You know, he showed you, too. That you don’t just give up. You don’t just let things happen. You make a stand. You say no. You have the guts to do what’s right when everyone else just runs away! And I just can’t . . .
“The Parting of the Ways,” Doctor Who
Ephram: I think you’re wrong, though.
Amy: About what?
Ephram: I think you can know. I think you can know when someone is right. I think you can have a soulmate. I think maybe you can have more than one, but I think there’s definitely a limited number of people out there that you can really be with.
Amy: What? I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Ephram: You have a soulmate, Amy. And once you get all of this other crap out of your head and just trust that, you’ll know who it is. He’ll probably be standing right out in front of you. Because the guy who’s lucky enough to get to be with you . . . he won’t walk away too easily.
Amy: Why would you think that?
Ephram: Because he gets to be with you.
“Goodbye, Love,” Everwood
Meghan: You know what I was thinking, though?
Felicity: What?
Meghan: That when we don’t need men is exactly when we should get together with them.
“The Aretha Theory,” Felicity
Lorelai: Did you mean all those things you said about marriage?
Luke: What things?
Lorelai: You really want me to repeat them to you?
Luke: No. I guess, for some people, marriage, you know, isn’t the worst thing in the world. I mean, it’s probably better than being hobbled or something like that.
Loreai: And people can evolve together, don’t you think?
Luke: Maybe.
Lorelai: Yoko and John Lennon did. They just got closer and closer as the years went by. At the end, they had the same face.
Luke: It got a little spooky.
Lorelai: But cool.
Luke: Yeah, they were lucky. I guess if you can find that one person, you know, who’s willing to put up with all your crap, and doesn’t want to change you or dress you or, you know, make you eat French food, then marriage can be all right. But that’s only if you find that person.
Lorelai: Yeah, if you find that person.
“Red Light on the Wedding Night,” Gilmore Girls
Alex: For a kiss to be really good, you want it to mean something. You want it to be with someone you can’t get out of your head. So that when your lips finally touch, you feel it everywhere. A kiss so hot and so deep you never want to come up for air. You can’t cheat your first kiss, Nicole. Trust me, you don’t want to. Because when you find that right person, a first kiss is everything.
“Something to Talk About,” Grey’s Anatomy
Cristina: I was right. I swear, I really believe what I did was right. I-I don’t want you to forgive me. Frankly, I, I’d find it patronizing if you did because while I know I was right, you think I’m wrong. Which doesn’t matter. Because . . . I’m in this. I’m in this for the long haul. And I’m in this to finish the race. So if that means I don’t win this one, then fine. I don’t win. You win. I’m talking. See? I’m talking first. You win.
“Great Expectations,” Grey’s Anatomy
Derek: You left without me. Now you’re not talking to me. I was a jerk. Sometimes boyfriends can be jerks. It doesn’t mean you stop talking. You get that I’m saying “I’m sorry,” right?
Meredith: You yelled at me for no reason and then you walked away and now you show up here.
Derek:Of course I showed up. Why wouldn’t I? You don’t trust me?
Meredith: I do.
Derek: Okay, well, this is how it works. You fight sometimes and somebody apologizes.
Meredith: Well, how am I supposed to know that?
Derek: You’ve never done this before.
Meredith: No, I’ve never done this before.
Derek: Hm. Okay. All right. Well, this is . . . from now on, you can expect that I’m going to show up. Even if I yell, even if you yell, I’m always going to show up. Okay?
Meredith: Okay.
“Great Expectations,” Grey’s Anatomy
Sister Augustine: I don’t want to die. Why has he left me?
Chase: I was in seminary school. They asked us once what our favorite passage was. I chose First Peter, chapter one, verse seven. “The trials only test your faith to see whether or not it is strong and pure. Your faith is being tested, as fire tests gold and purifies it.”
Sister Augustine: “And your faith is far more precious to the Lord than mere gold. So if your faith remains strong after being tested, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day of his return.”
Chase: He hasn’t left you. The only thing in the way of you knowing he’s there is your fear. You have a choice, faith or fear. That’s the test.
Sister Augustine: Choosing faith doesn’t mean I won’t die.
Chase: But it will affect how you experience your death and, therefore, your life. It’s up to you.
Sister Augustine: Why did you leave seminary school?
Chase: That test. You passed. I didn’t.
“Damned If You Do,” House
Rose: It’s a fine line between denial and faith. It’s much better on my side.
“Whatever the Case May Be,” Lost
Bevin: I know people think I’m stupid. But I’m not dumb. I just let you and the other girls have your way because that’s how you need it to be. But I think Carl’s right. Pretty soon we’re all going to graduate and I can start over. But it’ll be harder for the people who need this place to make themselves so special. People who use high school to build themselves up and then find out that the real world doesn’t care so much about who you were in high school. People like you. Okay. So, what are we going to do for our pictures?
“Pictures of You,” One Tree Hill
Dr. Cox: Relationships don’t work the way they do on television and in the movies. “Will they? Won’t they?” And then they finally do and they’re happy forever, give me a break. Nine out of ten of them end because they weren’t right for each other to begin with, and half the ones that get married get divorced anyway, and I’m telling you right now, through all this stuff, I have not become a cynic, I haven’t. Yes, I do happen to believe that love is mainly about pushing chocolate-covered candies, and, you know, in some cultures, a chicken. You can call me a sucker, I don’t care. Because I do. Believe in it. Bottom line is couples that are truly right for each other wade through the same crap as everybody else, but the big difference is they don’t let it take them down. One of those two people will stand up and fight for that relationship every time, if it’s right and they’re real lucky. One of them will say something.
“My Bed Banter & Beyond,” Scrubs
JD: You know, when you start med school, they warn you that you’re going to have to make sacrifices. But I guess that means different things to different people. Like giving up something you really want now for something you’ve wanted your whole life. Or spending less time on yourself so you can spend more time with someone you love. At some point, you might even have to give up your own sense of safety and well-being. But after a while, it doesn’t feel like you’re giving up anything at all.
“My Sacrificial Clam,” Scrubs
Scully: Well, it seems to me that the best relationships, the ones that last, are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
“The Rain King,” The X-Files
I'm a word person, so, for me, one of the best things about TV shows is a good quote. I have 81-page document on my computer with quotations from TV shows, books, and movies. That's rather a lot to share, so I decided to pick out some of my absolute favorites . . . and still had 18 pages! So I got really ruthless and tried to pick only the quotes that would make sense even to people unfamiliar with the show (I also cut out later Buffy and Angel quotes, so as to not to spoil my beloved
torigates).Here's what I ended up with:
Vaughn: This watch belonged to my father. It’s broken now, but it used to keep perfect time. And when he gave it to me, he said, “You could set your heart by this watch.” It stopped October 1. The day we met.
“Passage, Part 1,” Alias
Jack: Sydney Bristow, my daughter, has come to believe that when I look at her, I see the embodiment of all my flaws. This afternoon, when I learned she may have been exposed to a life-threatening disease, I realized she might die believing that. But nothing could be further from the truth. When I look at her, when I look at the little girl who raised herself to become one of the most extraordinary human beings and one of the finest agents I’ve ever had the privilege of knowing, I see only the promise of my own redemption. Turning myself in was the only way I could think of to make that clear to her. To prove that despite my limited abilities as a father, I love her more than I could ever say.
“Salvation,” Alias
Buffy: I don’t know what I’m supposed to say.
Giles: You needn’t say anything.
Buffy: Be simpler if I could just hate him. I think he wanted me to. I think it made it easier for him to be the villain of the piece. Really he was just scared.
Giles: Yes, I suppose he was.
Buffy: Nothing’s ever simple anymore. I’m constantly trying to work it out. Who to love or hate, who to trust. It’s just like the more I know, the more confused I get.
Giles: I believe that’s called growing up.
Buffy: I’d like to stop then, okay?
Giles: I know the feeling.
Buffy: Does it ever get easy?
Giles: You mean life?
Buffy: Yeah. Does it get easy?
Giles: What do you want me to say?
Buffy: Lie to me.
Giles: Yes, it’s terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true. The bad guys are easily distinguished by their point horns or black hats. And, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies and everybody lives happily ever after.
Buffy: Liar.
“Lie to Me,” Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Spike: You’re not friends. You’ll never be friends. You’ll be in love till it kills you both. You’ll fight and you’ll shag and you’ll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you’ll never be friends. Love isn’t brains, children, it’s blood, blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love’s bitch, but at least I’m man enough to admit it.
“Lover’s Walk,” Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Angel: You still my girl?
Buffy: Always.
“Enemies,” Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy: Believe it or not, Jonathan, I understand about the pain.
Jonathan: Oh, right, because the burden of being beautiful and athletic, that’s a crippler.
Buffy: You know what? I was wrong. You are an idiot. My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it, sometime more than I can handle. And it’s not just mine. Every single person down there is ignoring your pain because they’re too busy with their own. The beautiful ones, the popular ones, the guys that pick on you, everyone. If you could hear what they were feeling . . . the loneliness, the confusion. It looks quiet down there. It’s not. It’s deafening.
“Earshot,” Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Joey: We talk like we know what’s going on, but we don’t. We don’t have any idea. Look, we’re really young and we’re going to screw up a lot. You know, we’re going to keep changing our minds and sometimes even our hearts. And through all of that, the only real thing we can offer each other is forgiveness. And I couldn’t do that. Or at least I did it too late. Don’t let yourself get so angry that you stop loving because one day you will wake up from that anger and the person you love will be gone.
“Homecoming,” Dawson’s Creek
Jen: My Grams is dating a 60-year-old African American man whose name is Clifton Smalls.
Joey: What? I guess that’s a good thing?
Jen: It is. Actually, it’s a really great thing. Do you want to know why?
Joey: I guess so.
Jen: It’s a great thing because it means that no matter how many good looking boys consistently disappoint us or how many times we’re convinced that this universe is going to begin and end with one of these moronic losers that someday, when all of this crap is over with, there might be our very own Clifton Smalls waiting for us.
“Cigarette Burns,” Dawson’s Creek
Jackie: Oh, Rose, have something to eat.
Rose: 200,000 years in the future, he’s dying, and there’s nothing I can do.
Jackie: Well, like you said, 200,000 years, it’s way off.
Rose: But it’s not, it’s now. That fight is happening right now. And he’s fighting for us! For the whole planet! And I’m just sitting here eating chips!
Jackie: Listen to me. God knows I have hated that man, bur right now I love him, and do you know why? ‘Cause he did the right thing. He sent you back to me.
Rose: But what do I do every day, Mum? What do I do? Get up, catch the bus, go to work, come back home, eat chips, and go to bed, is that it?
Mickey: That’s what the rest of us do.
Rose: But I can’t!
Mickey: Why, ‘cause you’re better than us?
Rose: No, I didn’t mean that! But it was. It was a better life. And I don’t mean all the traveling and seeing aliens and spaceships and things, that don’t matter. The Doctor showed me a better way of living your life. You know, he showed you, too. That you don’t just give up. You don’t just let things happen. You make a stand. You say no. You have the guts to do what’s right when everyone else just runs away! And I just can’t . . .
“The Parting of the Ways,” Doctor Who
Ephram: I think you’re wrong, though.
Amy: About what?
Ephram: I think you can know. I think you can know when someone is right. I think you can have a soulmate. I think maybe you can have more than one, but I think there’s definitely a limited number of people out there that you can really be with.
Amy: What? I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Ephram: You have a soulmate, Amy. And once you get all of this other crap out of your head and just trust that, you’ll know who it is. He’ll probably be standing right out in front of you. Because the guy who’s lucky enough to get to be with you . . . he won’t walk away too easily.
Amy: Why would you think that?
Ephram: Because he gets to be with you.
“Goodbye, Love,” Everwood
Meghan: You know what I was thinking, though?
Felicity: What?
Meghan: That when we don’t need men is exactly when we should get together with them.
“The Aretha Theory,” Felicity
Lorelai: Did you mean all those things you said about marriage?
Luke: What things?
Lorelai: You really want me to repeat them to you?
Luke: No. I guess, for some people, marriage, you know, isn’t the worst thing in the world. I mean, it’s probably better than being hobbled or something like that.
Loreai: And people can evolve together, don’t you think?
Luke: Maybe.
Lorelai: Yoko and John Lennon did. They just got closer and closer as the years went by. At the end, they had the same face.
Luke: It got a little spooky.
Lorelai: But cool.
Luke: Yeah, they were lucky. I guess if you can find that one person, you know, who’s willing to put up with all your crap, and doesn’t want to change you or dress you or, you know, make you eat French food, then marriage can be all right. But that’s only if you find that person.
Lorelai: Yeah, if you find that person.
“Red Light on the Wedding Night,” Gilmore Girls
Alex: For a kiss to be really good, you want it to mean something. You want it to be with someone you can’t get out of your head. So that when your lips finally touch, you feel it everywhere. A kiss so hot and so deep you never want to come up for air. You can’t cheat your first kiss, Nicole. Trust me, you don’t want to. Because when you find that right person, a first kiss is everything.
“Something to Talk About,” Grey’s Anatomy
Cristina: I was right. I swear, I really believe what I did was right. I-I don’t want you to forgive me. Frankly, I, I’d find it patronizing if you did because while I know I was right, you think I’m wrong. Which doesn’t matter. Because . . . I’m in this. I’m in this for the long haul. And I’m in this to finish the race. So if that means I don’t win this one, then fine. I don’t win. You win. I’m talking. See? I’m talking first. You win.
“Great Expectations,” Grey’s Anatomy
Derek: You left without me. Now you’re not talking to me. I was a jerk. Sometimes boyfriends can be jerks. It doesn’t mean you stop talking. You get that I’m saying “I’m sorry,” right?
Meredith: You yelled at me for no reason and then you walked away and now you show up here.
Derek:Of course I showed up. Why wouldn’t I? You don’t trust me?
Meredith: I do.
Derek: Okay, well, this is how it works. You fight sometimes and somebody apologizes.
Meredith: Well, how am I supposed to know that?
Derek: You’ve never done this before.
Meredith: No, I’ve never done this before.
Derek: Hm. Okay. All right. Well, this is . . . from now on, you can expect that I’m going to show up. Even if I yell, even if you yell, I’m always going to show up. Okay?
Meredith: Okay.
“Great Expectations,” Grey’s Anatomy
Sister Augustine: I don’t want to die. Why has he left me?
Chase: I was in seminary school. They asked us once what our favorite passage was. I chose First Peter, chapter one, verse seven. “The trials only test your faith to see whether or not it is strong and pure. Your faith is being tested, as fire tests gold and purifies it.”
Sister Augustine: “And your faith is far more precious to the Lord than mere gold. So if your faith remains strong after being tested, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day of his return.”
Chase: He hasn’t left you. The only thing in the way of you knowing he’s there is your fear. You have a choice, faith or fear. That’s the test.
Sister Augustine: Choosing faith doesn’t mean I won’t die.
Chase: But it will affect how you experience your death and, therefore, your life. It’s up to you.
Sister Augustine: Why did you leave seminary school?
Chase: That test. You passed. I didn’t.
“Damned If You Do,” House
Rose: It’s a fine line between denial and faith. It’s much better on my side.
“Whatever the Case May Be,” Lost
Bevin: I know people think I’m stupid. But I’m not dumb. I just let you and the other girls have your way because that’s how you need it to be. But I think Carl’s right. Pretty soon we’re all going to graduate and I can start over. But it’ll be harder for the people who need this place to make themselves so special. People who use high school to build themselves up and then find out that the real world doesn’t care so much about who you were in high school. People like you. Okay. So, what are we going to do for our pictures?
“Pictures of You,” One Tree Hill
Dr. Cox: Relationships don’t work the way they do on television and in the movies. “Will they? Won’t they?” And then they finally do and they’re happy forever, give me a break. Nine out of ten of them end because they weren’t right for each other to begin with, and half the ones that get married get divorced anyway, and I’m telling you right now, through all this stuff, I have not become a cynic, I haven’t. Yes, I do happen to believe that love is mainly about pushing chocolate-covered candies, and, you know, in some cultures, a chicken. You can call me a sucker, I don’t care. Because I do. Believe in it. Bottom line is couples that are truly right for each other wade through the same crap as everybody else, but the big difference is they don’t let it take them down. One of those two people will stand up and fight for that relationship every time, if it’s right and they’re real lucky. One of them will say something.
“My Bed Banter & Beyond,” Scrubs
JD: You know, when you start med school, they warn you that you’re going to have to make sacrifices. But I guess that means different things to different people. Like giving up something you really want now for something you’ve wanted your whole life. Or spending less time on yourself so you can spend more time with someone you love. At some point, you might even have to give up your own sense of safety and well-being. But after a while, it doesn’t feel like you’re giving up anything at all.
“My Sacrificial Clam,” Scrubs
Scully: Well, it seems to me that the best relationships, the ones that last, are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
“The Rain King,” The X-Files
