Charlie
Do you ever get the feeling that people are incapable of not caring?
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Charlie
I need to know that I have done one right thing with my life!
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Charlie
Who would want me to be part of their life?
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Ellie
In the amazing book Moby Dick by the author Herman Melville, the author recounts his story of being at sea. In the first part of his book, the author, calling himself Ishmael, is in a small sea-side town and he is sharing a bed with a man named Queequeg, and I felt saddest of all when I read the boring chapters that were only descriptions of whales, because I knew that the author was just trying to save us from his own sad story, just for a little while."
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Charlie
People are amazing.
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Charlie
These assignments--they don't matter. This course doesn't matter. College doesn't matter. These amazing, honest things you wrote--they matter.
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Ellie
What I like about religion is that it assumes that everyone is an idiot and that we're all incapable of saving ourselves. I think they've got something right with that. What I don't like about religion is that when people accept Jesus or whatever, they suddenly think they're better than everyone else. By accepting the fact that they're stupid sinners, somehow they've become better and they turn into assholes.
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Charlie
I'm sorry you had to come over, Liz.
Liz
No, it's okay.
Charlie
I'm sorry I always thinking I'm dying.
Liz
Charlie, your blood pressure is 238 over 134.
Charlie
I'm sorry.
Liz
Go to the hospital.
Charlie
I'm sorry.
Liz
Stop saying you're sorry. Go the hospital. You have congestive heart failure. If you don't go to the hospital, you'll be dead by the weekend.
[sternly]
Liz
You will die.
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Charlie
You don't like school?
Ellie
Only idiots like high school.
Charlie
But you're on track to graduate, right?
Ellie
Counselor says I might not. I'm not worried. I'm a smart person. I never forget anything. High school is just bullshit.
Charlie
But, Ellie, it's important. If you don't graduate, then...
Ellie
Are you actually trying to parent me right now?
Charlie
No, I'm... Sorry. I just... I just thought that maybe we could spend some time with each other.
Ellie
I'm not spending time with you. You're disgusting.
Charlie
Well, I'm a lot bigger than I was since last time you saw me.
Ellie
No, I'm not talking about what you look like. You'd be disgusting even if you weren't this fat. You'd still be that piece-of-shit dad who walked out on me when I was eight. All because he wanted to fuck one of his students.
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Liz
Beep. Beep. Beep.
[When Charlies backs towards his chair]
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Liz
What the fuck to you think it is? It's a fat-guy wheelchair!
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Charlie
I can pay you.
Ellie
You want to pay me to spend time with you?
Charlie
And I can help you with your work. It's what I do for my job. I can help you pass your class.
Ellie
You teach online?
Charlie
Yes.
Ellie
Your students know what you look like?
Charlie
I keep the camera shut off.
Ellie
Yeah, that's probably a good idea.
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Liz
You must be from New Life. You know Doug, from the church council?
Thomas
Yeah, I think so? I'm not entirely sure. I'm sort of new here, so...
Liz
He's my dad. Doug and Cindy adopted me when I was a baby.
Thomas
Oh, that's great. I've never seen you there before, but, again I'm sort of new, so...
Liz
Fucking hate New Life.
Thomas
Oh.
Liz
My dad forced me to go when I was a kid. It was awful, growing up with all that "end times" bullshit. You're young. Why the hell would you want to believe that the world is ending?
Thomas
I believe that when Christ returns, it's gonna be beautiful.
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Charlie
I'm sorry.
Liz
You say you're sorry one more time, I would shove a knife right into you, I swear to God.
Charlie
Go ahead. What's it gonna do? My internal organs are two feet in at least.
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Liz
We ordered it
[the wheelchair]
Liz
for a patient a few months ago. It's just been sitting around.
Charlie
What happened to the patient?
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Mary
How's it been... getting to know her?
Charlie
She's amazing.
[Mary chuckles]
Mary
You still do that.
Charlie
What?
Mary
That positivity.
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Charlie
This apartment smells.
[breathes in deeply]
Charlie
This apartment smells. The author was just trying to save us from his own sad story. I hate everyone.
[teary eyed]
Charlie
I hate everyone.
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Charlie
Is that why you kept her from me all this time? Because you thought that I would think that you're a bad mother?
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