Danny: So I guess this is where I tell you what I learned - my conclusion, right? Well, my conclusion is: Hate is baggage. Life’s too short to be pissed off all the time. It’s just not worth it. Derek says it’s always good to end a paper with a quote. He says someone else has already said it best. So if you can’t top it, steal from them and go out strong. So I picked a guy I thought you’d like. ‘We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.’
saddest part,but best quote.
Derek: I kept asking myself all the time, how did I buy into this you know? It’s just ‘cause I was pissed off. Nothing I ever did took that feeling away. I killed two guys, I killed them. And it didn’t make me feel any different. Just got me more lost and I’m tired of feeling pissed off. I’m just tired of it. And I’m not telling you what to do. I’m really not. But I need you to understand ‘cause I love you, and you’re my best friend.
Sweeney: I didn’t get no answers ‘cause I asked the wrong questions. You have to ask the right question.
Derek: Like what?
Sweeney: Has anything you’ve done made your life better?
Derek: What’d you do?
Lamont: I stole a TV, alright.
Derek: So you stole a TV. What’s embarrassing about that?
Lamont: I stole a TV from a store next to a doughnut shop. I ran out, the owner’s right behind me yelling. Bam! I run into three cops. I told you it was embarassing.
Derek: Wait a sec, that don’t make sense. You didn’t get six years for stealing a TV.
Lamont: I go out the store, the police officer grabs my arm the TV falls on his foot and breaks it. They said I threw the TV at him. Assault, six years.
Derek: Come on, tell the truth. You chucked it at him.
Lamont: Like I said, I came out of the store, he grabbed my arm, it fell on his foot.
Doris: He’s starting to remind me of you.
Derek: Don’t sound so worried all right? I’m sure he’s fine, he 16 years old. He’s not gonna be a little angel forever.
Doris: You think because I watched my firstborn fuck up his entire life that I can sit here and see my baby follow him down the same toilet?
Derek: I can’t fix all this shit from up here! Don’t blame this shit onto me, all it does is make me feel bad. I’m trying to get through this and you’re just making it harder.
Doris: You think you’re the only one doing time? You think you’re here all alone? YOU THINK I’M NOT IN HERE WITH YOU?
(via movieoftheday)