Sancholo: If I don't admit to a murder... cartel will expect me to do one for real.
Ben Manalowitz: You know, um... There's some things I'm good at. I'm good at asking the right questions. I'm good at getting people to talk. And I'm especially good at drawing thematic connections between seemingly disparate elements and using that to illustrate a larger point or theory. So, whoever or whatever is responsible for what happened to Abilene, I will find this person or this generalized societal force, and I will define it. I'll define it.
Ben Manalowitz: Do you ever find wonder, if you did find something deeper with somebody, if that would somehow be more meaningful?
John: I do, sometimes. Like right now, I'm casually dating, like, six or seven different women. But I do wonder, deep down, what it would be like to seriously date two or three.
Ty Shaw: Heart sees heart.
Quentin Sellers: What we're recording here isn't your record. It's your sound... on the record that started with the very first moment in time. So when you sing this song, I want you think about what you're making is the record of your time here on this Earth. It's the sound that you scratch with your life... on the record of the universe. Okay?
Teenage Singer: OK.
Ben Manalowitz: I don't understand you people.
Paris Shaw: 'You people' is a micro-agression.
Ben Manalowitz: My apologies. Y'all.
Paris Shaw: 'Y'all' is a cultural appropriation.
Ben Manalowitz: Paris, you accusing someone of cultural appropriation is cultural appropriation.
Ty Shaw: This is the most, uh, wretched, godforsaken stretch of land on the face of the earth. And I'd never leave.
Ben Manalowitz: Yeah. That's how I feel about Twitter.
Sharon Shaw: Bless your heart.
Ben Manalowitz: OK, you know what? I know what that means. So, bless your heart, and bless your heart, and bless your heart, you can all go bless yourselves.
El Stupido Shaw: Maybe you're El Stupido.
Sharon Shaw: It's all regrets. You run as fast as you can from the last regret and of course you are just running straight into the next one. That's life. It's all regrets. That's what they should say. No other way to be alive. It's all regrets. Make 'em count.
Abilene Shaw: When I told my mom I was going to New York, she said, bless your heart. Which is Texas for go fuck yourself.
Ben Manalowitz: You were right, Eloise. I was the story. A self-absorbed know-it-all thinks he's gonna figure out the meaning of America, and all he learns is how empty he is. I was the one living a myth. They say you regret the things you don't do. I didn't love.
