Old Fashioned Quotes

Clay: I guess I wasn't destined for greatness.
Amber: I think the world has enough greatness. Not enough goodness. That's my theory.

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Amber: Buy me flowers. Make me a card. I don't need you to make me your community service project. I need you to dance with me. That was okay, wasn't it?
Clay: Yes.
Amber: Clay, I know it's in you. I know it. Flatter me. Excite me. Sweep me off my feet. Tell me I'm the most attractive woman you've ever seen even if you don't really mean it. I don't care.
Clay: Lie to you?
Amber: Exactly. A normal date.
Clay: I've wasted a lot of words. I don't want to waste any more.
Amber: On me. Oh you're scoring all kinds of points.
Clay: It's not about scoring points.
Amber: I'm sorry. That's right. It's about red-yellow-green.

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Clay: When did treating women with respect become the joke?
Brad: Oh, come on.
Clay: You want to laugh at believing love can be something sacred? Go ahead. Laugh.

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Amber: You don't believe that there's a right person out there for each of us? A soul mate?
Clay: I don't believe that our job is in looking. It's in becoming. Once you are the right person... when you're ready... you know? Then hopefully, God willing...

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Amber: Maybe love doesn't have to be perfect, just to be worth it.

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Aunt Zella: This is the day the Lord has made.
Clay: I will rejoice and be glad in it.

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Clay: There was... something. A sense. Like a voice but...
Amber: You hear voices?
Clay: No, not like real... Wait.
Amber: What?
Clay: Shhh. There it is again. A whisper. It's telling me... it's telling me something about you!
Amber: I'm serious. Tell me more about all of this.
Clay: I can't explain it. Still. Even now. It's not easy to put into words without sounding like a crazy person.
Aunt Zella: Ask her to go to church with ya sometime.
Clay: Thank you, Aunt Zella.
Amber: You go to church?
Clay: Not much anymore. I did.
Aunt Zella: The people there weren't perfect, so he felt out of place.

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Amber: Is that what made you change?
Clay: It wasn't one big thing. It was more like a lot of small things that added up. And that book didn't help much. Sometimes I wish I'd never opened it at all.
Amber: Why?
Clay: Once I read it for myself, I couldn't make fun of it anymore. Maybe someone else could, but I couldn't. I felt accountable for the first time in my life.

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Amber: When the jar is full, I know I have enough.
Clay: For what?
Amber: To get far enough away if I need to. Make a fresh start. Go where the wind takes me. Follow the warm fuzzies.
Clay: Life isn't just warm fuzzies.
Amber: It isn't just rules either, religiouso... And besides, it's how I ended up here. I hit empty on County Line Road.
Clay: You're kidding me. You just packed your car full of everything you owned and started driving until you ran out of gas?

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Amber: He's trying to scare me off.
Lisa: He's so good at that.

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Clay: Old things have passed away; behold all things become new.
Amber: That's in there?

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Amber: I'm not going to live back there anymore, Clay. And I'm not going to tell you a bunch of bad things about him to try to make myself feel less responsible. I can't blame him for my decision. And you can't either. But this is who I am.

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Clay: It's easier to keep holidays than commandments, Benjamin Franklin.
Amber: That's true. I definitely prefer holidays.
Amber: Our lives begin to end the moment we remain silent about things that matter
Clay: Who said that?
Amber: Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Amber: [Repeated lines]Hey there, Stress Boy.
Clay: Hey there, Pretty Girl.

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George: Life is short.

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Clay: [Opening lines; voice-over]I thought I would always be alone.
Amber: [Voice-over]Why?
Clay: [Voice-over]It's what I deserve.
Amber: [Voice-over]Oh, that's a bunch of hooey. [laughs]

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