1. the breakfast club

allison: when you grow up, your heart dies.
bender: so, who cares?
allison: i care.

2. garden state

andrew: fuck, this hurts so much.
sam: i know it hurts. that’s life. if nothing else, it’s life. it’s real, and sometimes it fuckin’ hurts, but it’s sort of all we have.

3. eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

clementine: joely? what if you stayed this time?
joel: i walked out the door. there’s no memory left.
clementine: come back and make up a good-bye at least. let’s pretend we had one… bye joel.
joel: i love you…
clementine: meet me… in montauk…

4. amélie

raymond dufayel: so, my little amélie, you don’t have bones of glass. you can take life’s knocks. if you let this chance pass, eventually, your heart will become as dry and brittle as my skeleton. so, go get him, for pete’s sake!

5. moulin rouge!

satine: i don’t need you anymore! all my life you made believe i was only worth what someone would pay for me! but christian loves me. he loves me! he loves me, harold. and that is worth everything! we’re going away from you, away from the Duke, away from the moulin rouge!

6. the lord of the rings trilogy

pippin: home is behind, the world ahead… and there are many paths to tread… through shadow… to the edge of night… until the stars are all alight… mist and shadow, cloud and shade… all shall fade… all… shall… fade.

(i used the return of the king poster because it’s my favourite of the three)

7. adventureland

joel: what’s the point of being a writer or an artist anyway? herman Melville wrote fuckin’ moby dick, he was so poor and forgot by the time he died that in his obituary they called him henry Melville. you know, like why bother? they’re just going to forget our fuckin’ names anyway. i heard em went back to new york.
james: i wish it didn’t end like that, i should’ve - i don’t know… your herman melville story that - that’s bullshit.
joel: it’s true, they called him henry.
james: no, i mean, he wrote a seven-hundred page allegorical novel about the whaling industry. i think he was a pretty passionate guy, joel. i hope they call me henry when i die, too.
joel: one can only hope

8. withnail and i

withnail: i must have some booze. i demand to have some booze!

9. little miss sunshine

dwayne: you know what? fuck beauty contests. life is one fucking beauty contest after another. school, then college, then work… fuck that. and fuck the air force academy. if i want to fly, i’ll find a way to fly. you do what you love, and fuck the rest.

10. the curious case of benjamin button

benjamin button: some people, were born to sit by a river. some get struck by lightning. some have an ear for music. some are artists. some swim. some know buttons. some know Shakespeare. some are mothers. and some people, dance.

11. hot fuzz

danny: what about… ‘lethal weapon’?
nicholas: no.
danny: you’ve seen ‘die hard’, though?
nicholas: no.
danny: ‘bad boys ii’?
nicholas: no.
danny: you ain’t seen ‘bad boys ii’?

12. beauty and the beast

belle: i want adventure in the great wide somewhere. / i want it more than i can tell. / and for once it might be grand / to have someone understand / i want so much more than they’ve got planned…

13. black swan

nina: it’s about a girl who gets turned into a swan and she needs love to break the spell, but her prince falls for the wrong girl so she kills herself.

14. brotherhood of the wolf

jean-francois de morangias: so tell me sir, do they speak of the beast in paris?
gregoire de fronsac: speak of it? they’re already singing songs about it.
geneviève de morangias: instead of singing songs, they should be saying prayers.

15. leon the professional

mathilda: i don’t give a shit about sleeping, leon. i want love, or death. that’s it.