"Do you ever meet someone and you know instantly, that both of your lives are going to be irretrievably altered?"

• Blue Moon (2025) by Richard Linklater

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"The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye. Therefore, the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain. Therefore, whatever appears on the television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore, television is reality, and reality is less than television."

• Videodrome (1983) by David Cronenberg

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"God didn't hide me or fix me. He loves me when I'm guilty."

• Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) by Rian Johnson

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"Do you know what the cure for the human condition is? Disease. Because only then there is hope for a cure."

• A Cure for Wellness (2016) by Gore Verbinski

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"I'm sick, aren't I?" / "I wish everybody was as sick as you."

• Call Me by Your Name (2017) by Luca Guadagnino

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"I'm not queer. I'm disembodied."

• Queer (2024) by Luca Guadagnino

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"My thoughts are so far away from God he may not as well have made me."

• Wildcat (2023) by Ethan Hawke

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"For someone who was never meant for this world, I must confess, I'm suddenly having a hard time leaving it. Of course they say every atom in our bodies was once part of a star. Maybe I'm not leaving. Maybe I'm going home."

• Gattaca (1997) by Andrew Niccol

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"I've prayed and prayed and everything just gets worse. I don't know anymore but I think that maybe the truth is... there's nobody up there. There's nobody listening. There's only just me."

• Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023) by Kelly Fremon Craig

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"I know you don't love me. The Babadook won't let you. But I love you, I always will."

• The Babadook (2014) by Jennifer Kent

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"Am I dead?" / "Yes, you are dead, Ana. But don't panic. Girls are better off dead." / "Why?" / "Because now we're free."

• Mayday (2021) by Karen Cinorre

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"If only my life could be more like the movies. I want an angel to swoop down to me like he does to Jimmy Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life and talk me out of suicide. I've always waited for that one moment of truth to set me free and change my life forever. But he won't come. It doesn't happen that way."

• Prozac Nation (2001) by Erik Skjoldbjærg

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"So you don't believe in God?" / "Of course I do. This life is so cruel, only a man can be responsible."

• Immaculate (2024) by Michael Mohan

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"I can't get over my disappointment in being a girl."

• Little Women (2019) by Greta Gerwig

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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