Quotes from Patrick Marber

I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

That's the most stupid expression in the world. 'I fell in love'—as if you had no choice. There's a moment, there's always a moment; I can do this, I can give in to this or I can resist it. I don't know when your moment was but I bet there was one.

I love everything about you that hurts.

Where is this love? I can't see it, I can't touch it. I can't feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words, but I can't do anything with your easy words

Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.

Dan: I love you. • Alice: Where? • Dan: What? • Alice: Show me. Where is this 'love'? I can't see it, I can't touch it, I can't feel it. I can hear it, I can hear some words but I can't do anything with your easy words.

Have you ever seen a human heart? It looks like a fist, wrapped in blood! Go fuck yourself!

I know who you are. I love you. I love everything about you that hurts.

I don't love you anymore. Goodbye.

Alice: I don't love you anymore. Goodbye. Dan: Since when? Alice: Now. Just now.

I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over.

What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.

I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.

DAN What do you want? ALICE To be loved. DAN That simple? ALICE It's a big want.

Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave.

We arrive with our...'baggage' and for a while they're brilliant, they're 'Baggage Handlers.' We say, 'Where's your baggage?' They deny all knowledge of it...'They're in love'...they have none. Then...just as you're relaxing...a Great Big Juggernaut arrives...with their baggage. It Got Held Up. One of the greatest myths men have about women is that we overpack.

She was...disarming.

Larry: She doesn't want to be happy. Dan: Everybody wants to be happy. Larry: Depressives don't. They want to be unhappy to confirm they're depressed. If they were happy they couldn't be depressed anymore. They'd have to go out into the world and live. Which can be depressing.

I am waiting for a man to come in here and fuck me sideways with a beautiful line like that

Men want a girl who looks like a boy. They want to protect her but she must be a survivor. And she must come...like a train...but with...elegance.

Thank God life ends—we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will kill us...our bones will outlive us.

Deception is brutal, I'm not pretending otherwise.

Dan: You've ruined my life. Anna: You'll get over it.

Alice: Is it because she's successful? Dan: No. It's because... she doesn't need me.