Before Midnight Quotes

You’re just like the little girls and everybody else. You wanna live inside some fairy tale. I’m just trying to make things better here. I tell you that I love you unconditionally, I tell you that you’re beautiful, I tell you that your ass looks great when you’re 80. I’m trying to make you laugh.[to Céline]

If you want true love, then this is it. This is real life. It’s not perfect, but it’s real.[to Céline]

Women explore for eternity in the vast garden of sacrifice.

We all get dragged through our parents’ lives.

Not knowing is not so bad. I mean, the point is to be looking, searching, to stay hungry, right?

If I could change one thing about you, it would be for you to stop trying to change me.

I f****d up my whole life because of the way you sing.[to Céline]

I am giving you my whole life, okay? I got nothing larger to give. I’m not giving it to anybody else. If you’re looking for permission to disqualify me, I’m not gonna give it to you. Okay? I love you and I am not in conflict about it. Okay? But if what you want is like a laundry list of all the things about you that pi** me off, I can give it to you.[to Céline]

From the time we leave our parents house until we have kids, that’s the only time your life is completely your own.