Best Quotes from After Movies Series

Hardin Scott: It was Darcy’s very attitude that attracted Elizabeth to him.
Tessa Young: Darcy’s attitude was rude and mocking. I think that he was lucky to be with a woman with as much integrity as Elizabeth.
Hardin Scott: The only reason he even asked her to marry him was because she wouldn’t stop throwing herself at…
Tessa Young: Throwing herself at him? He was pursuing her.
Hardin Scott: She’s clearly not satisfied with her life and is looking for excitement wherever she can get it.
Tessa Young: Well, I think that it’s obviously all in his head that she had any feelings for him at all.
Professor Soto: Well, there you have it. That’s the power of a good book.

[referring to their debate in literature class]
Hardin Scott: That was exciting.
Tessa Young: No, it was annoying.
Hardin Scott: I enjoyed it.
Tessa Young: Look, whatever you’re thinking, don’t. Nothing happened between us, okay? I have a boyfriend.
Hardin Scott: Us? I thought we were talking about Pride and Prejudice.

[as Tessa runs into Hardin at the coffee shop]
Hardin Scott: I can’t stay away from you.
Tessa Young: What?
Hardin Scott: Well, we’re going to see each other. I’m friends with Steph, and you’re roommates. Tessa, let’s just start over. Just reset, and we can be…
Tessa Young: What, friends?
Hardin Scott: Well, why not?

Hardin Scott: I want to show you something.
Tessa Young: So, show me, then.
Hardin Scott: It’s a place.
Tessa Young: I think that it’s better if we keep our distance.
[Hardin takes a step back from her and Tessa laughs]
Hardin Scott: I’ll see you around.

[as Hardin takes her to his secret spot at the lake]
Hardin Scott: Welcome to my favorite place.
Tessa Young: It’s beautiful.

Tessa Young: Can I ask you something?
Hardin Scott: Do I even have a choice?
Tessa Young: Who do you love the most in the world?
Hardin Scott: Easy. Myself.
Tessa Young: Of course you do.

Tessa Young: I thought that you just wanted to be friends.
Hardin Scott: I don’t think we can ever be just friends.
[they kiss for the first time]

[as he starts touching Tessa by the lake]
Hardin Scott: Have you never been touched before?
[Tessa shakes her head]
Tessa Young: Why did you stop?
Hardin Scott: We’ve got time.

Tessa Young: So, why do you call them chips?
Hardin Scott: Why do you call them fries?
Tessa Young: Because they’re fried.
Hardin Scott: They’re not French.

Tessa Young: So, what’s your story then?
Hardin Scott: My story?
Tessa Young: Yeah. Like your family. How you ended up here.
Hardin Scott: I’ll pass. I just don’t think asking a bunch of arbitrary questions about someone’s past is really going to tell you who they are. I can find out who you are by sitting here and spending time with you.

[Tessa sits silently just staring at him]
Hardin Scott: What are you doing?
Tessa Young: I’m just waiting for you to reveal your true self to me by just sitting here and spending time with you.

Tessa Young: Why do you have all those romance novels if you don’t believe in love?
Hardin Scott: Who says I don’t believe in love?
Tessa Young: You did, in Soto’s class.
Hardin Scott: True. Maybe don’t believe everything I say then.

Tessa Young: You know, I am going to tell Noah about us. I just…
Hardin Scott: Us? What do you mean, “us”? If you want to dump Mr. High School, then go ahead, but don’t do it on my account.
Tessa Young: What?
Hardin Scott: Look, it was fun. But I don’t date.
Tessa Young: Are you actually kidding me?

Hardin Scott: I’m sorry for how I treated you.
Tessa Young: If you don’t date, if that’s how you feel…
Hardin Scott: I don’t think that is how I feel anymore. I’m a mess.
Tessa Young: I think that we’re both a mess.
[they start making out, then Harding pulls her shirt up]
Hardin Scott: You don’t ever have to cover up, not for me.

[after Noah breaks up with Tessa because of Hardin]
Tessa Young: When my dad left, I was ten. He left us with nothing. And my mom, she just sort of fell apart. I had to take care of her alone. But Noah was there for me, you know? I hate myself for what I did to him.
Hardin Scott: Tessa, it’s not your fault.
Tessa Young: Yeah, it is. Noah is my best friend. But you, you’re so much more.

Carol Young: You’re going to break up with this boy, and you are going to focus on your schoolwork.
Tessa Young: Do you even know what it has been like trying to be perfect for you? Having you mold my life into the way that you wanted it to be?
Carol Young: I did it for your own good.
Tessa Young: I am so, so sorry, mom, that your life didn’t work out the way that you wanted it to. I really am. But this is my life and you have to let me live it.
Carol Young: Is that really what you want?
Tessa Young: Yes.
Carol Young: If I leave now, you’re cut off. He’s going to break your heart.

[referring to the apartment]
Hardin Scott: When you told me your mom was going to cut you off, I had to do something. We can stay here for the rest of the year. Just you and me.
Tessa Young: You did this for me?

Hardin Scott: I still can’t believe it.
Tessa Young: Hm? Believe what?
Hardin Scott: That you’re mine.
Tessa Young: Not this again.
Hardin Scott: I don’t deserve you.
Tessa Young: Nothing could ever change the way that I feel about you.

[at his father’s wedding reception]
Hardin Scott: That’s not the man I grew up with. My father was a drunk, and nothing more.
Tessa Young: At least he’s trying. Which is more than my father ever did. People change.
Hardin Scott: Clearly. It still doesn’t change what happened.

[as Molly shows her the video she took at the first party they went to]
Hardin Scott: You lot don’t think I can make it happen?
Molly: Make what happen, Hardin?
Hardin Scott: Here’s a dare. Make her fall in love with me. And then, I’ll just turn it off.
Molly: [to Tessa] It was all a game.

Tessa Young: So what exactly did you tell them then?
Hardin Scott: Nothing.
Tessa Young: None of it was real. I actually thought, I thought that… You’re just a liar!
Hardin Scott: That was all before.
Tessa Young: Before what?
Hardin Scott: Before…
Tessa Young: You snapped your fingers, and you turned it off.
Hardin Scott: You said nothing could change the way you felt about me.
Tessa Young: Then I guess we’re both liars.

[after Tessa returns home and reconciles with her mom]
Tessa Young: I’m so sorry, Noah. I never meant to hurt you.
Noah: Yeah, I know.
Tessa Young: I guess I just never saw any of this coming.
Noah: Yeah, but that’s like the point. Right? We change, and we discover who we are. I think that’s okay.

[as Tessa reads Hardin’s literature essay was about her]
Hardin Scott: “I’ve read hundreds of novels in my life. Most of them claiming that love was
the center of the universe, that it could heal any damage inside of us, that it was what we need to survive. From Darcy to Heathcliff, I thought they were fools, that love was something fictional, only found in worn pages of a book. But that has all changed since I met my Elizabeth Bennet. I never thought I would find myself completely and utterly
consumed by another, until her. She took my hand and led me out of the darkness and showed me that whatever our souls are made of, hers and mine are the same. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. You once asked who I loved most in this world. It’s you.”