Look Both Ways Quotes Flashcards
I suppose everyone has to witness something ghastly one day.
Meryl
My dad died two weeks ago. Why isn’t my picture on front of the paper? Why isn’t everybody who loses somebody on the front bloody page?
Meryl
There’s always this stuff in the paper about a brave battle with cancer but then you’re also supposed to accept it and have a nice everybody gather round and hug each other death.
Nick
It doesn’t matter how he died. Your father’s death was not the sum of his life.
Joan (Nick’s Mother)
It doesn’t matter how life ends, it matters how it was.
Joan (Nick’s Mother)
Everybody has to find a way to face their own death, and life.
Joan (Nick’s Mother)
I met you on Friday, we slept together on Saturday, you took me to meet your mother on Sunday, and now you can’t start anything. That’s the tightest little relation ship I’ve ever had.
Meryl
It’s great that you paint things that make people feel better
Meryl
Contrary to your popular belief you do hold your fate in your hands
Meryl
I’ve got cancer. Mum, I’ve got cancer. Mum, Meryl, I’ve got cancer
Nick, practicing confronting his mother.
Maybe it was meant to be… Maybe the right thing happens.
Meryl
The seven stages of grief. What’s the point in knowing where you’re up to if you’ve still got to go through it anyway?
Meryl
Apparently, it’s good to stay , optimistic.
Phil
I’m fine, I’m just being stupid, I’m fine, I’m sick of this stupid job, and not having any money, I don’t have my own home, or any children, or a partner to share anything with.
Meryl, speaking to sister on the phone
Do you believe in God?
Nick to Andy, at the cricket