Bright Shiny Morning Quotes
"We’re just stuck. We’ll end up like everyone else, drunk and mean and miserable."
"She doesn’t cry, she just wants to get away, as far as she can as fast as she can, get away, away."
"Barry struggled in school. He got one A over the course of his entire academic career, which came in eighth-grade gym."
"The Bonanza made enough money to stay open, but maintaining Barry’s high standards required that he dip into his savings."
"They named her Esperanza. She was small, like both of her parents, and she had a full head of curly black hair."
"American daughter. American home. American dream."
"Amberton waves to the group yells hello. He lies back and pretends to close his eyes and he stares at the football player, stares."
"Emerson is now twenty-nine years old. The intervening twenty years have not been kind to him."
"Betty becomes friends with almost everyone in the park, young old rich or poor everyone loves her."
"They ride along Mulholland Drive, a two-lane road that runs for twenty-one miles along the ridge of the Hollywood Hills."
"Many of them live in Venice because the pace of life, even in the dangerous sections, is slower than the rest of the city, mellower."
"It’s dawn and Old Man Joe is awake on the beach he’s staring at the sky slowly turning blue."
"The boardwalk is loud, crowded, dirty, parking is a nightmare, it smells like fifty types of food, almost all of them fried."
"You got any money on you? Why? I want you to go to the liquor store and buy me a bottle of cheap Chablis."
"Life’s all about problems. Yeah, I know. That’s why I drink and live in a sleeping bag."
"Each day as he ate, he would hum, or sometimes quietly sing, songs and hymns he had learned at home or at church."
"Despite their love for each other, and their clear commitment to each other, they never moved beyond holding hands and kissing."
"He plays a compulsive gambler. Yes, it’s negotiable."
"I might. Come on, Old Man. Everyone knows you’re down here every morning staring at shit."
"He wonders what his life would be like if he wasn’t so good-looking. He would probably be a world-renowned professor at a prestigious eastern university. Or maybe an English university."
"He listens to love songs and he dreams, love songs and dreams."
"He runs his hands along them, very nice, extremely nice."
"She either went golfing in Palm Springs or to a spa in Laguna or to an equestrian event in Santa Barbara."
"His utter indifference to his appearance is refreshing."
"She imagines him sitting on the floor, a pizza or some potato chips on the floor next to him, staring at the TV with his controller in hand, saving the universe, slaying dragons."
"He tries to decide how he’ll greet Kevin, will he shake his hand, if he does will he use both hands and cover the first with the second, should he kiss him on the cheek?"
"Unlike many agents, he truly cares for the well-being of his clients."
"She always smiles back. Though she doesn’t want to, and tries not to, she always smiles back."
"I speak English. I understand everything you say."
"I think it’s great. And it’ll make it easier for us to be friends."
"The immigrant thing is an act to deal with your mom."
"The possibilities are. Day-to-day it’s grueling."
"He’s like a child who doesn’t know any better taking bites while there’s still food in his mouth."
"Dylan works, Maddie cleans does laundry cooks."
"The beating, beating heart of a major metropolitan area."
"No one knows who came up with the expression Skid Row."
"It is crowded, the sidewalks are packed, there are cars parked on every curb."
"They come to rock long and they want to rock hard."
"In 1968, Robert Kennedy is shot and killed at the Ambassador Hotel."
"A Friday and Dylan gets the afternoon off, he and Maddie go to the courthouse in Beverly Hills."
"I walk through the Land of Angels, I walk through the Land of Dreams."
"Life just is what it is and you can try to change it or you can just let it be, but there ain’t no why, there just is, there’s just life."
"They come to live with Angels and chase their dreams."
"I’ve always dreamed of marrying a woman who loved Budweiser."
"We might not see them or care about them or look twice at them, but they are there."
"Los Angeles is the cultural capital of the world. No other city even comes close to it."
"It’s possible here. In gas stations and mini-malls. In studios and stages."
"I was the first here. And I saw it all coming."
"Some dream of bright lights and billboards but they are few to the many who dream of a place that will accept them, nourish them, allow them to grow."