"You're afraid to be alive, you're afraid to live."

• Silver Linings Playbook (2012) by David O. Russel

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"If you wanna kill yourself, like with a pencil or a knife or whatever, you can just tell me. I'll never tell you you're scaring me. I'll just say, "Yeah, I know. It's just like that sometimes". I'm sorry that bad things are going to happen to you."

• Sorry, Baby (2025) by Eva Victor

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"Right is a small box invented by people who are afraid. And I know what it feels like to be trapped inside that box."

• Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) by Daniel Scheinert & Daniel Kwan

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"If you see something that looks like me, don't go near it. It won't be me. It'll never be me."

• Leviticus (2026) by Adrian Chiarella

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"There's so much I want to say. But I don't know where to start. Maybe when I learn to breathe, we'll finally be able to talk."

• I Believe in Unicorns (2014) by Leah Meyerhoff

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"He loves me for what I am, not what I ought to be."

• Hamnet (2025) by Chloe Zhao

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"Nick and Amy will be gone, but then we never really existed. Nick loved a girl I was pretending to be. "Cool girl". Men always use that, don't they? As their defining compliment, "She's a cool girl". Cool girl is hot. Cool girl is game. Cool girl is fun. Cool girl never gets angry at her man."

• Gone Girl (2014) by David Fincher

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"You know, lost souls are not that different from those in the zone. The zone is enjoyable, but when that joy becomes an obsession, one becomes disconnected from life."

• Soul (2020) by Pete Docter

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"I want you to be the very best version of yourself that you can be." / "What if this is the best version?"

• Lady Bird (2017) by Greta Gerwig

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"You make me happy, even when you're awful, I would rather be with you, even the you that you seem to think is diminished, than with anyone else in the world."

• Me Before You (2016) by Thea Sharrock

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"My friends think I like to fight but it's just not true. Sometimes I lose my temper and blow off a little steam, but I've never enjoyed it. I'm not a violent dog, I don't know why I bite."

• Isle of Dogs (2018) by Wes Anderson

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