814 Quotes About Movies

  • Author Elizabeth McCracken
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    Movie kisses looked like they'd hurt. She couldn't get enough of them. They made her feel alive - not in any expansive way, but assessed, her pulse taken, a rubber mallet to the knee that made her kick.

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  • Author Jesmyn Ward
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    The lightning cracked again, this time like it was right on top of us, feet away from arcing through the house, and her skin was white as stone and her hair waving, and I thought about the Medusa I'd seen in an old movie when I was younger, monstrous and green-scaled, and I thought: That's not it at all. She was beautiful as Mama. That's how she froze those men, with the shock of seeing something so perfect and fierce in the world.

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  • Author Genki Kawamura
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    You only realize what the really important things are once you've lost them.' That's what my mother would say at the end of La Strada. It seemed like the same thing was happening to me now. I was genuinely sad now that I'd actually lost movies. I knew I would miss them, and I know it's stupid, but it was only when I realized that the movies were really gone that it hit me how much they'd helped me emotionally, and how much they'd had a hand in making me who I was.

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  • Author Casey McQuiston
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    You're movies and destiny and every stupid, impossible thing, and it's not because of the fucking train. It's because you fight and you care, and you're always kind but never easy.

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