1. “You don’t tell me things, Joel. I’m an open book. I tell you everything, every damn, embarrassing thing.”
2. “I could die right now, Clem. I’m just… happy. I’ve never felt that before. I’m just exactly where I want to be.”
3. “Look at it out here, it’s all falling apart. I’m erasing you and I’m happy!”
4. “I apply my personality in a paste.”
5. Clementine: This is it, Joel. It’s going to be gone soon. Joel: I know. Clementine: What do we do? Joel: Enjoy it.
6. “I loved you on this day. I love this memory.”
7. “The only Valentine’s Day cards I get are from my mother. How pathetic is that?”
8. Mary:Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders. Mary:Nietzsche. Beyond Good and Evil. Found it in my Bartlett’s.
9. “How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each prayer accepted, and each wish resigned.”
10. “My embarrassing admission is I really like that you’re nice, right now.”
11. “I thought you knew that about me. I ran back to the bonfire, trying to outrun my humiliation, I think.”
12. “Valentine’s Day is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap.”
13. “Joel, look at me. You’ll remember me in the morning, and you’ll come to me, and you’ll tell me about us, and we’ll start over.”
14. Clementine:You know me, I’m impulsive. Joel:That’s what I love about you.
15. “I’m always anxious thinking I’m not living my life to the fullest, you know? Taking advantage of every possibility? Just making sure that I’m not wasting one second of the little time I have.”
16. “Why do I fall in love with every woman I see that shows me the least bit of attention.”
17. “Can you hear me? I don’t want this anymore! I want to call it off!”
18. Joel: I had a really nice time last night. Clementine: Nice? Joel: I had the best fucking night of my entire fucking life, last night! Clementine: Thaaaat’s better!
19. “I don’t need nice. I don’t need myself to be it, and I don’t need anybody else to be it at me.”
20. Patrick: Baby, what’s going on? Clementine: I don’t know. I don’t know! I’m lost! I’m scared! I feel like I’m disappearing. My skin’s coming off! I’m getting old! Nothing makes any sense to me! Patrick: You’re not getting old. Clementine: Nothing makes any sense! Nothing makes any sense!
21. “I had a really nice time last night. I had the best f*cking night of my entire f*cking life, last night!”
22. “Look, man, I’m telling you right off the bat, I’m high maintenance. So, I’m not gonna tip-toe around your marriage or whatever it is you got going on there. If you wanna be with me, you’re with me.”
23. “Too many guys think I’m a concept, or I complete them, or I’m gonna make them alive. But I’m just a fucked-up girl who’s lookin’ for my own peace of mind; don’t assign me yours.”
24. “Are we like those bored couples you feel sorry for in restaurants? Are we the dining dead? I can’t stand the idea of us being a couple of people think that about.”
25. “It’s amazing, isn’t it? What Howard gives to the world? To let people begin again. It’s beautiful. You look at a baby and it’s so pure and so free, and so clean, and adults are like this mess of sadness and phobias, and Howard just makes it all go away.”
26. Joel Barish: I can’t see anything I don’t like about you. Clementine: But you will, you will think of things and I’ll get bored with you and feel trapped because that’s what happens with me. Joel Barish: Okay. Clementine: Okay.
27. Clementine:HEY! Lets go out dancing! You want to go out to Montauk with me? Patrick:Montauk? Clementine:Yeah, NO! Come out to Boston with me! Patrick:Sure, we can go next weekend. Clementine:NO! Now! Now! I have to go see the frozen Charles NOW!
28. “I walked out the door. There’s no memory left.”
29. “Adults are like a combination of sadness and phobias.”
30. “People have to share things. That’s what intimacy is.”
31. Joel: I can’t see anything that I don’t like about you. Clementine: But you will! But you will. You know, you will think of things. And I’ll get bored with you and feel trapped because that’s what happens with me. Joel: Okay. Clementine: [pauses] Okay.
32. “That was beautiful to watch, Howard. Like a surgeon or a concert pianist.”
33. “[narration as Clementine acknowledges him by raising her coffee mug] Why do I fall in love with every woman I see who shows me the least bit of attention?”
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34. “Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.”
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35. Clementine: I’m Clementine. Can I… borrow a piece of your chicken? Joel: And then you just took it… without waiting for an answer. It was so intimate; like we were already lovers.
36. Joel: Don’t call me Antoine. My name is Wally. Clementine: Yes, I know, but how can a woman love a man with a name like Wally?
37. “Remember me. Try your best. Maybe we can.”
38. “You stop listening to what is true, and what is true is constantly changing.”
39. “Come back and make up a goodbye, at least. Let’s pretend we had one.”
40. “Sand is overrated. It’s just tiny, little rocks.”
41. “We are David and Ruth Laskin. Which one do you want to be? I prefer to be Ruth, but I’m flexible.”
42. “Constantly talking isn’t necessarily communicating.”
43. Clementine: [Clementine has dyed her hair orange] You like? To match my sweatshirt, exactly. Joel: Ahaaahhhhh! Ohhhhhh! I like it! Clementine: You do? Joel: You look like a tangerine! Clementine: Hmmm, Clementine the tangerine. Joel: Juicy… ‘n seedless. Clementine: I like that.
44. [Joel calls Clem on the telephone] Clementine: What took you so long? Joel: I just walked in. Clementine: Do you miss me? Joel: Oddly enough, I do! Clementine: You said “I do” – I guess that means we’re married! Joel: I guess so!
45. Clementine: You’re not a stalker, or anything, right? Joel: I’m not a stalker. YOU’RE the one that talked to me, remember? Clementine: That is the oldest trick in the stalker book. Joel: Really? There’s a stalker book? Great, I gotta read that one.
46. “Drink up, young man. It’ll make the whole seduction part less repugnant.”
47. “I can’t remember anything without you.”
48. Clementine: You married? Joel: No. Clementine: Let’s move into this neighborhood! Joel: I do sorta live with someone though. Clementine: Male or female? Joel: What? Female… female… Clementine: At least I’m not barking up the wrong tree!
49. “Please let me keep this memory, just this one.”
50. Patrick:Baby, whats wrong? Clementine:I don’t know! I DON’T KNOW! I’m lost! I’m scared! I feel like I’m disappearing! MY SKIN COMING OFF! I’M GETTING OLD! Nothing makes any sense to me! NOTHING MAKES ANY SENSE!
51. Carrie:You’re stoned and you’re driving. Rob:Pot balances me out. Pot brings me up. That’s I smoke it if I’m going to be drinking.
52. Joel:Is there any risk of brain damage? Howard:Well, technically speaking, the operation is brain damage, but on a par with a night of heavy drinking. Nothing you’ll miss.
53. “I thought maybe you were a nut. But you were exciting.”
54. “People don’t understand how lonely it is to be a kid.”
55. Patrick:Mary hates me. I’ve never been popular with the ladies. Stan:Maybe if you stopped stealing their panties.
56. “I ditched work today. Took a train out to Montauk. I don’t know why, I’m not an impulsive person.”
57. “I thought I knew her so well, but I don’t know her at all. What a loss to spend that much time with someone, only to find out that she’s a stranger.”
58. “Are we like couples you see in restaurants? Are we the dining dead?”
59. “I wish I had stayed too. NOW I wish I had stayed. I wish I had done a lot of things. I wish I had… I wish I had stayed. I do.”
