Miranda July credited as playing...
Christine Jesperson
- Christine Jesperson: [seeing his bandage] Whoa, what happened?
- Richard Swersey: You want the short version or the long one?
- Christine Jesperson: The long one.
- Richard Swersey: I tried to save my life but it didn't work.
- Christine Jesperson: Wow. What's the short one?
- Richard Swersey: I burned it.
- Christine Jesperson: We have a whole life to live together you fucker, but it can't start until you call.
- Michael: I just wish I had met her 50 years sooner.
- Christine Jesperson: Yeah.
- Michael: But then maybe I needed 70 years of life to be ready for a woman like Ellen.
- Christine Jesperson: [making both sides of the conversation between her and an imaginary lover] - If you really love me, then let's make a vow. Right here... together... right now. Ok ? - Ok... - All right, repeat after me... I'm gonna be free. - I'm gonna be free. - And I'm gonna be brave... - I'm gonna be brave. - Good... I'm gonna live each day as if it were my last. - Oh that's good... - You like that ? - Yeah... - Say it. - I'm gonna live each day as it were my last... - Fantastically... - Fantastically. - Courageously... - Courageously. - With grace... - With grace. - And in the dark of the night ,and it does get dark, when I call a name... - When I call a name... - It' ll be your name... What's your name ?
- [no answer]
- Christine Jesperson: Nevermind... let's go... say it. - Let's go... - Everywhere... - Everywhere... - Even though... - Even though... - We're scared... - We're scared... - Cause it's life... - It's life... - and it's happening, it's really really happening... RIGHT NOW...
- Michael: So tell Ellen about the shoe guy. Did you go back to the store?
- Christine Jesperson: Yeah. And turns out he's a killer of children.
- [pause]
- Christine Jesperson: So, oh well.
- Michael: Ellen broke up with me.
- Christine Jesperson: What? Why?
- Michael: She thinks she's gonna die this week.
- Christine Jesperson: No. Out of everyone at Saint Tod, she is the least likely person to die.
- Michael: Well, she's usually right. She's been right about everyone else. I lived a whole life with a woman I didn't even really like. We traveled all over the world together. And Ellen and I never even left the grounds.
- Christine Jesperson: Well, actually I took you to the IMAX that one time.
- Michael: Yeah, but I wanted to take her to the Mayan ruins in Guatemala. She really wanted to see those.
- Christine Jesperson: Yeah, that just seems weird that she wouldn't want to be with you- you know, if - her time was coming.
- Michael: I've long since stopped trying to make people - do things they don't want to do.
- Christine Jesperson: But she's the love of your life. You're just gonna let her go?
- Michael: No. She's just - Going.
- Christine Jesperson: Fuck! Fuck you! Fuck me! Fuck old people! Fuck children! Fuck peace! Fuck peace...
- Christine Jesperson: [Talking about the fish on top of the car that is about to die] Oh, God, the little girl is going to have to watch it.
- Michael: At least they know. At least we're all together in this.
- Richard Swersey: Yeah, the "Ice Land" sign is halfway. It's the halfway point.
- Christine Jesperson: Ice Land is - It's kind of like that point in a relationship, you know, where you suddenly realize it's not going to last forever. You know, you can see the end in sight. Tyrone Street.
- Richard Swersey: Yeah, but we're not even there yet. We're still at the good part. We're not even sick of each other yet.
- Christine Jesperson: I'm not sick of you at all.
- Christine Jesperson: I mean, they kind of rub my ankles, but all shoes does that. I have low ankles.
- Richard Swersey: You think you deserve that pain, but you don't.
- Christine Jesperson: I don't think I deserve it.
- Richard Swersey: Well, not consciously maybe.
- Christine Jesperson: My ankles are just low...
- Richard Swersey: People think that foot pain is a fact of life, but life is actually better than that.
- Michael: I'll say. You should get some. Your whole life could be better. Just starting right now.
- Christine Jesperson: But she's the love of your life, You're just going to let her go?
- Michael: No, she's just going...