I like to mate after battle.

Carol: It's good, isn't it? I always try to save a couple of the marshmallows till the very end... but I never make it. I always end up with... a bunch of flake things and pink milk. My mind wanders.

Andrew: So, Tim... How long have you been working at Medieval Times?

Tim: Three years. B-But I've only been a knight for two. You have to pay your dues. I worked in the stables and helped in the kitchen.

Carol: When I started, he was making the coleslaw. It hasn't been the same since you got knighted.

Tim: But I really just stirred it.

Carol: Don't be modest. Mr. Modesty won the joust last night.

Andrew: Congratulations.

Tim: It's not that big a deal. It's fixed.

Andrew: What was it that happened to you in high school? You had a thing. I forgot what it was.

Mark: He got the shit kicked out of him.

Carol: No, he didn't.

Mark: How do you know? He got the shit kicked out of him by Tyrell Freedmen.

Tim: I fucked him up too.

Mark: He knocked your teeth out.

Tim: He only chipped one tooth. So, uh, w-what are you up to now, Mark? You're digging graves?

Carol: Mark's getting into real estate. Tim can speak Klingon.

Andrew: What?

Tim: No, I can't.

Carol: Yes, you can.

Mark: What the fuck is Klingon?

Andrew: Like the Star Trek guys?

Carol: Yeah, he can speak their language.

Tim: No, she's kidding.

Carol: No, I'm not. Why are you being shy?

Mark: Yeah, don't be shy, Tim.

Tim: It's just... It's made-up. This guy who plays the wizard at work is a Trekkie. I don't...

Carol: Don't be shy. Tell them what you said to me last night.

Tim: No.

Mark: Say what you said to her last night.

Mark: You gotta be kidding me.

Carol: It means, "I like to mate after battle."

Tim: That's not what I said.

Carol: Yeah.

Tim: No. No. That wasn't the one I said. This one means, "Kill Kirk"... and also "Hallelujah," depending on the context.

Mark: You must have got it confused with, uh...

Carol: Honey, that is good.

Mark: You know what that means, Tim? Well, I do. It means, "Get the fuck out of my house... before I chop your fucking head off."

Carol: Mark, he's a knight.

Mark: He's just a fast-food knight.

Tim: I should get going. Thanks, uh, for the cereal. I had a lovely evening. By the way, it says "balls" on your face.

Mark: Asshole!

Carol: My mom did it.

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This is gonna be a good night!

Mark: Here you go.

Andrew: Oh. No, thanks, man.

Mark: Really? I thought you were a big movie star and shit.

Andrew: Nah.

Jesse: Well, then here. Eat this. Welcome home.

Andrew: I guess I'll see you guys later.

Dana: Should we play a game? Let's play "spin the bottle."

Andrew: I'm not playing "spin the bottle." How old are we? Or more importantly, how old are they?

Jesse: Oh, they're all legal. I think.

Kelly: Well, we just ate all this fucking "X," so what the hell else are we supposed to do?

Jesse: Girl has a point.

Kelly: Fucking right.

Dana: I'm in!

Hey! Large!

Jesse: Largeman, this is Dana.

Dana: Hi.

Andrew: Hi. Who's up?

Whoo!

Jesse: This is gonna be a good night.

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You're gonna love the material.

Aunt Sylvia Largeman: Do you know your mother redid the hallway bathroom?

Andrew: What? I'm sorry. What?

Aunt Sylvia Largeman: Since I met her, she never showed an interest in anything. All of a sudden, a month ago, she wakes up... she wants to redecorate a bathroom. I helped her.

Andrew: Oh, must have been fun.

Aunt Sylvia Largeman: Well, I sew. I made you something. It's a shirt.

Andrew: That's... That's good. Thank you.

Aunt Sylvia Largeman: Will you try it on now?

Andrew: Now?

Aunt Sylvia Largeman: In case I have to fix it before you leave again… and we don't see you for another nine years. I wanna make sure it fits.

Andrew: Oh. Okay.

Aunt Sylvia Largeman: You're gonna love the material. I used the leftovers from your mother's design. Gorgeous.

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That idea of home is gone.

Andrew: You know that point in your life when you realize the house you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of a sudden even though you have some place where you put your shit, that idea of home is gone.

Sam: I still feel at home in my house.

Andrew: You'll see one day when you move out it just sort of happens one day and it's gone.
You feel like you can never get it back. It's like you feel homesick for a place that doesn't even exist.

Maybe it's like this rite of passage, you know. You won't ever have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I don't know, but I miss the idea of it, you know. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people that miss the same imaginary place.

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We need each other...

Sam: You don't realize, this is good, this doesn't happen often in your life. We can work this stuff out. I want to help you, you know? We need each other...

Andrew: This isn't a conversation about this being over, it's, it's... I'm not, like, putting a period at the end of this, you know, I'm putting, like, an ellipsis on it, cause I'm- I'm- I'm worried that if I don't figure myself out, if I don't go like land on my own two feet, then I'm just gonna to mess this whole thing up, and this is too important. I gotta go... you changed my life in four days. This is the beginning of something really big. But right now, I gotta go.

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I think I can do this.

Sam: What are you doing?

Andrew: Remember that idea I had, about working stuff out on my own, and then finding you once I worked stuff out?

Sam: The ellipsis?

Andrew: Yeah, the ellipsis, it's dumb. It's dumb. It's an awful idea. I'm not gonna do it, okay? Cause like you said, this is it. This is life. And I'm in love with you... I think that's the only thing I've ever really been sure of in my entire life. And I'm really messed up right now, and I got a whole lot of stuff I have to work out, but I don't want to waste any more of my life without you in it. And I think I can do this. I mean, I want to. I have to, right?

Sam: Yeah. Yes!

Andrew: So what do we do? What do we do?...

Garden State (2004) by Zach Braff

You're gonna need to come home now

Andrew, this is your father. Hello?

Look, you don't call me back, so I don't know how to do this. If you're not gonna return my calls... then there's no way for us to communicate...

Look, I don't know how to do this... but you're gonna need to come home now. Last night...

Your mother died last night, Andrew. She drowned. Last night, she drowned in the bath.

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Laugh at yourself.

Sam: If you can't laugh at yourself, life's gonna seem a whole lot longer than you like.

Andrew: All right, so what are we laughing at you about?

Sam: I lied again... I have epilepsy.

Andrew: Which part are we laughing about?

Sam: I had a seizure at the law office where I work, and they told me their insurance wouldn't cover me unless I wore preventative covering.

Andrew: What's preventative covering?

Sam: The helmet I was wearing... Oh come on, that's funny. That's really funny, I mean I'm the only person who wears a helmet to work who isn't putting out fires or racing for NASCAR. But what do you do, I can't quit... their insurance is amazing, what do you do? You laugh. I'm not saying I don't cry but in between I laugh and I realize how silly it is to take anything too seriously. Plus, I look forward to a good cry. It feels pretty good.

Garden State (2004) by Zach Braff

We live in a beautiful world!

Bones are sinking like stones

All that we fall for

Homes places we've grown

All of us are done for

And we live in a beautiful world (yeah we do yeah we do)

We live in a beautiful world

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Sam & Andrew ♥

So what if you catch me, where would we land?
In somebody's life forsaking his hands.
Sing to me hope as she's thrown on the sand.
All of your works are rated again.
Where to go?

You know I love you.
You know I love you .
I want you oh so much.

Garden State (2004) by Zach Braff

Garden State (2004) by Zach Braff

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

Sam: You don't realize, this is good, this doesn't happen often in your life. We can work this stuff out. I want to help you, you know? We need each other...
Andrew Largeman: This isn't a conversation about this being over, it's, it's... I'm not, like, putting a period at the end of this, you know, I'm putting, like, an ellipsis on it, cause I'm- I'm- I'm worried that if I don't figure myself out, if I don't go like land on my own two feet, then I'm just gonna to mess this whole thing up, and this is too important. I gotta go... you changed my life in four days. This is the beginning of something really big. But right now, I gotta go.

That's life. If nothing else, its life. It's real, and sometimes it fuckin' hurts, but it's sort of all we have.

Andrew Largeman: You know that point in your life when you realize the house you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of a sudden even though you have some place where you put your shit, that idea of home is gone.

Sam: I still feel at home in my house.

Andrew Largeman: You'll see one day when you move out it just sort of happens one day and it's gone. You feel like you can never get it back. It's like you feel homesick for a place that doesn't even exist. Maybe it's like this rite of passage, you know.

You won't ever have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something.

I don't know, but I miss the idea of it, you know. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people that miss the same imaginary place.

This is your one opportunity to do something that no one has ever done before and that no one will copy throughout human existence. And if nothing else, you will be remembered as the one guy who ever did this. This one thing.

Safe... when I'm with you I feel so safe... like I'm home ♥