Garden State Transcript - The Best Bits (Jmo)
I.
Andrew: That is not funny.
Sam: Oh, come on. You gotta see that's a joke. If you can't laugh at yourself, life's gonna seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.
II.
Sam: What do you do? You laugh, you know? I'm not saying I don't cry. But in-between, I laugh. And I realize how silly it is to take anything too seriously. Plus, I look forward to a good cry. Feels pretty good.
III.
Andrew: You know that point in your life when you realize the house you grew up in... isn't really your home anymore. All of a sudden, even though you have some place where you put your shit... that idea of home is gone.
Sam: I still feel at home in my house.
Andrew: You'll see one day when you move out. Just sorta happens one day, and it's gone. You feel like you can never get it back. It's like you feel homesick for a place that doesn't even exist. Maybe it's like this rite of passage, you know? You won't ever have that feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself. You know, for... For your kids. For the family you start. It's like a cycle or something. I don't know. But I miss the idea of it, you know? Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people that miss the same imaginary place.
Sam: Maybe.
IV.
Andrew: Fuck, this hurts so much.
Sam: Yeah, I know. But that is life. If nothing else, that's life, you know. It's real. Sometimes it fuckin' hurts. To be honest, it's sort of all we have.
(p.s. am in such a funk. am funk-ie.)