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The Half of It Best Quotes – ‘Love, it’s not finding your perfect half.’

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Starring: Leah Lewis, Daniel Diemer, Alexxis Lemire, Collin Chou, Enrique Murciano, Wolfgang Novogratz, Catherine Curtin, Becky Ann Baker, Gabi Samels

OUR RATING: ★★★½

Story:

Netflix’s teen romantic comedy written and directed by Alice Wu. The story follows shy, straight-A student Ellie Chu (Leah Lewis), who makes extra cash writing homework papers for her fellow high school students. Her side gig turns personal when lovelorn jock Paul Munsky (Daniel Diemer) hires her to write love letters to Aster Flores (Alexxis Lemire), Ellie’s own secret crush. As all three embark on an unexpected journey of discovery, they form a complicated triangle of friendship as they come to terms with their own unexpected feelings about love and find connection in the most unlikely of places.

 

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Our Favorite Quotes:

'In love, one always starts by deceiving oneself, and ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.' - Oscar Wilde (The Half of It) Click To Tweet 'Gravity is matter's response to loneliness.' - Ellie Chu (The Half of It) Click To Tweet 'Love isn't patient, and kind, and humble. Love is messy, and horrible, and selfish, and bold. It's not finding your perfect half. It's the trying, and reaching, and failing.' - Ellie Chu (The Half of It) Click To Tweet

 

Best Quotes


 

[first lines]
Ellie Chu: [voice over] The ancient Greeks believed humans once had four arms, four legs, and a single head made of two faces. We were happy. Complete. So complete that the gods, fearing our wholeness would quell our need for worship, cleaved us in two, leaving our split selves to wander the Earth in misery. Forever longing. Longing. Longing, for the other half of our soul.


 

Ellie Chu: [voice over] It is said that when one half finds its other, there’s an unspoken understanding. A unity. And each would know no greater joy than this. Of course, the ancient Greeks never went to high school. Or they’d realize, we don’t need the gods to mess things up for us.


 

Ellie Chu: [voice over] If you ask me, people spend far too much time looking for someone to complete them. How many people find perfect love? Or if they do, make it last? More evidence of Camus’ theory that life is irrational and meaningless.


 

Ellie Chu: [voice over] And that, my friends, is some A-plus love philosophy right there. Or A-minus if Mrs. G is in a bad mood. Either way, it’s an A, or you don’t pay.


 

Ellie Chu: [voice over] In case you haven’t guessed this is not a love story. Or not one where anyone gets what they want.


 

[referring to the homework papers she’s written for the students that pay her]
Mrs. Geselschap: Six different takes on Plato. Impressive.
Ellie Chu: Just the one.
Mrs. Geselschap: That’s what I tell the bartender.
Ellie Chu: How come you never turn me in?
Mrs. Geselschap: And have to read the actual essays they’d write?


 

[as her teacher shows her a college application for Grinnell]
Ellie Chu: You know I’m going to E-dub.
Mrs. Geselschap: Damn shame.
Ellie Chu: Damn full ride. I can live at home, and, plus, I get to stay in lovely Squahamish.
Mrs. Geselschap: Hell-quahamish.
Ellie Chu: It’s not that bad. Okay, it’s not that good either, but it’s what’s happening.


 

Mrs. Geselschap: Well, I spent four of the best years of my life at Grinnell.
Ellie Chu: And look at you, back home in Hell-quahamish.
Mrs. Geselschap: You’re right. Stay away from the liberal arts.
Ellie Chu: Try not to get fired over the weekend.
Mrs. Geselschap: Are you kidding? Everyone in this town fears God, but you know who God fears? The Teachers Union.


 

[after Paul grabs gets Ellie’s attention by stopping her riding her bike]
Ellie Chu: Ten dollars for three pages, twenty dollars for three to ten. Not in the over-ten-page biz.
Paul Munsky: No, I’m not trying to cheat.
Ellie Chu: Nobody is. Whose class is it for?
Paul Munsky: No, it’s not… Um…
[he offers her the paper in his hand]
Ellie Chu: What’s this?
Paul Munsky: A letter.
Ellie Chu: Who writes letters these days?
Paul Munsky: I thought it’d seem romantic.


 

[after seeing Paul’s letter is for Aster Flores]
Ellie Chu: I can’t help you.
Paul Munsky: I just need a few words. Good ones.
Ellie Chu: I’m not writing to Aster Fl… To some girl! It’d be wrong. A letter is personal. It’s supposed to be authentic.
Paul Munsky: That’d be awesome.
Ellie Chu: No! I can’t be you being authen… Get a thesaurus, use spell-check. Good luck, Romeo.
[Ellie gets back on her bike and rides off]
Paul Munsky: No, no. I can pay more for authentic!


 

[after Ellie drops her papers in the school hallway and Aster stops to help her]
Aster Flores: These hallways are murder.
Ellie Chu: I’m Ellie Chu.
Aster Flores: Yes, I know. You’ve only been playing my dad’s services every Sunday for like four years. You’re his favorite heathen. He can’t handle mediocre accompanists. Even if they are saved.
[seeing her papers]
Aster Flores: Remains Of The Day. Loved it. All that barely repressed longing.
[she hands Ellie her phone and walks off]
Ellie Chu: [scolding herself] “I’m Ellie Chu.”


 

[after finding out that their power will be cut off unless they pay at least $50]
Ellie Chu: Fifty dollars, one letter. After that, you’re on your own.
Paul Munsky: Yes!


 

[reading from his letter to Aster]
Paul Munsky: “Dear Aster Flores, I think you’re really beautiful. Even if you were ugly, I’d want to know you, because you are smart and nice, too.”
Ellie Chu: “It’s hard to find all those things in one girl. But even if you were only two of those things, I’d be into it. But you’re like all three, just to be clear.”
Paul Munsky: She’s like all three.
Ellie Chu: Thanks for clarifying.


 

[continuing to read Paul’s letter to Aster]
Ellie Chu: “About me. Some people think I’m the cutest one in my family. Those people being my grandma, who’s dead now. Never mind about my dead grandma. All I’m saying is that I like fries. I like dipping them in my milkshake. Is that weird? It’s actually really tasty. Would you like to try that with me sometime? I work part-time and I have a truck. Let me know whenever. Thanks. Paul Munsky, second string tight end, football.”


 

[after reading Paul’s letter to Aster]
Ellie Chu: So what you’re trying to say is…
Paul Munsky: I’m in love with her.
Ellie Chu: Have you ever spoken to her?
Paul Munsky: I’m not good with words.
Ellie Chu: But you know you love her?
Paul Munsky: I know. I think about her when I wake up. And when I’m doing my sprints. And when I’m eating my mom’s bratwurst, and when I’m saying my prayers.
Ellie Chu: That just means you’re stubborn. Not that you’re in love.
Paul Munsky: No, it’s love.


 

Paul Munsky: Oh, I get it.
Ellie Chu: Get what?
Paul Munsky: You’ve never been in love.
[in anger Ellie gives Paul’s letter back to him]
Ellie Chu: You want a letter about love? I’ll write you a letter about love.
Paul Munsky: One that’ll make her fall in love with me, not make her storm off in a huff, like what you’re doing right now!


 

[written on-screen quotes]
“In love, one always starts by deceiving oneself, and ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.” – Oscar Wilde


 

Paul Munsky: Hey! She wrote back.
[gives the letter to Ellie]
Aster Flores: “I like Wim Wenders too. Wouldn’t have plagiarized him though.”
Paul Munsky: Who’s Wim Wenders, and why did you cheat off him?
Ellie Chu: I didn’t cheat off of him.
Paul Munsky: No, I looked up “plagiarize”.
Ellie Chu: I kind of cheated off him.
Paul Munsky: I paid you!
Ellie Chu: But this is good!
Paul Munsky: How?
Ellie Chu: It’s like a game. She’s like challenging us. But in a good way.
Paul Munsky: So, uh, we’re still in the game.
Ellie Chu: Yep. Mm-hmm. We are. So, yay.


 

[writting Paul’s reply to Aster]
Ellie Chu: “Dear Aster, okay, you got me. I sometimes hide behind other people’s words. For one thing, I know nothing about love. I’m seventeen. I’ve lived in Squahamish my whole life.”
Paul Munsky: Such a downer.
Ellie Chu: It’s not a downer!
Paul Munsky: A major downer!


 

Paul Munsky: Ask her to hang out.
Ellie Chu: What exactly is hanging out?
Paul Munsky: You know, uh, hanging out.
Ellie Chu: But like what do you do?


 

[writting Paul’s reply to Aster]
Ellie Chu: “I hang out with my friends. I keep my head down. I’m a simple guy. Which is to say, if I knew what love was, I would quote myself.”


 

[Paul and Ellie meets in the priests confessional booth]
Ellie Chu: Isn’t this sacrilegious?
Paul Munsky: She wrote back.
Aster Flores: “Dear Paul, you know it takes eleven muscles to yawn? This is the sort of weird fact I find myself recalling to keep myself from well, yawning. Or showing anything I feel really. So, yeah, I turn to other people’s words too.”


 

Aster Flores: “When you’re a pretty girl, and I know it makes me sound conceited, but that’s why you’re even writing me, right? When you’re a pretty girl, people want to give you things. What they really want is to make you like them. Not like them as in, ‘I like you’, but like them as in, ‘I am like you’.”


 

Aster Flores: “So I’m like a lot of people. Which makes me kind of no one.”


 

[writting as Paul to Aster]
Ellie Chu: “I never really thought about the oppression of fitting in before. The good thing about being different is that no one expects you to be like them.”


 

[we hear Aster and Ellie writing as Paul, writing to each other]
Aster Flores: “Doesn’t everyone think they’re different, but pretty much we’re all different in the same way?”
Ellie Chu: “Says the girl perched on the rarefied peak of Mount Popularity.”
Aster Flores: “Easy, Mr. I Know Nothing About Love. I may surprise you.”


 

[from their letters to each other]
Ellie Chu: “What’s surprising is people don’t see what they’re not looking for.”
Aster Flores: “The obvious unseen.”


 

[after Mrs. Geselschap finds Ellie’s letter to Astra]
Mrs. Geselschap: So this is why half my class is failing their essays.
Ellie Chu: I’ll be reopen for business soon enough. I mean, this can’t go on much longer.


 

[from their letters to each other]
Aster Flores: “I’ve been thinking about what you said about seeing and not seeing. I had a painting teacher once tell me that the difference between a good painting and a great painting is typically five strokes. And they’re usually the five boldest strokes in the painting. The question, of course, is which five strokes?”

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Ellie Chu: “Everything beautiful is ruined eventually. Maybe that’s the thing. If you do ruin your painting, you got to know you have everything in you to get to that pretty good painting again.”
Aster Flores: “But if you never do the bold stroke…”
Ellie Chu: “You’ll never know if you could’ve had a great painting.”


 

Paul Munsky: When does the dating start?
Ellie Chu: This is dating.
Paul Munsky: No, dating is burgers, and fries, and shakes. And maybe another order of fries. And… I’m going to text her.
Ellie Chu: Wait! What?!
Paul Munsky: At a certain point, you’ve got to close.
Ellie Chu: We’re not at that point!
Paul Munsky: No, we’re way past that point!
[Paul then sends his text to Astra]


 

[referring to Paul and Astra’s awkward first date]
Paul Munsky: It wasn’t that bad.
Ellie Chu: What about that date wasn’t bad? You have nothing in common.
Paul Munsky: Yeah, not yet, but…
Ellie Chu: Game over.
Paul Munsky: I can’t give up!
Ellie Chu: Look, you and Aster Flores, not going to happen!


 

[as Ellie is riding her bike, student riding in a truck past her shout out]
Student: Chugga-chugga, Chu-Chu!
[Paul runs up behind Ellie]
Paul Munsky: Hey! Who are you calling Chu-Chu?
[he throws a rock at the truck]
Paul Munsky: What kind of wusses say dumb sh*t and then drive away? Yeah, you better run!
[turns to look at a shocked Ellie]
Paul Munsky: What?


 

Ellie Chu: Aster Flores thinks you’re into abstract art and repressed British literature.
Paul Munsky: Yeah.
Ellie Chu: None of that is you.
Paul Munsky: It could be. I started reading that Remains Of The Day book.
Ellie Chu: Really?
Paul Munsky: Yeah. I fell asleep a few times, but I’m still reading it. That’s got to count for something.
Ellie Chu: There are no points for effort.
Paul Munsky: Isn’t that what love is? How much effort you put into loving someone?
Ellie Chu: Well, whatever love is, we just blew it with Aster Flores.


 

[as Ellie is trying to teach Paul about art and literature]
Ellie Chu: So, in No Exit, three people are trapped in hell. A door opens, but nobody leaves.
That’s nuts. He can’t stand these people. A door opens and he doesn’t leave?
Ellie Chu: He’s trapped in hell. It’s a metaphor for existence.
Paul Munsky: My nana hated Minnesota. She left.
Ellie Chu: Your nana wasn’t one of the great thinkers of the 20th century.
Paul Munsky: Nana’s not trapped in hell either.
[Ellie groans and rides off]
Paul Munsky: Hey! Hey, where are you going?


 

Ellie Chu: The key thing about The Philadelphia Story is it’s a plea for tolerance.
Paul Munsky: Check this out. I’m calling it taco sausage. Do you want a bite?
Ellie Chu: No.


 

Ellie Chu: Conversation is like Ping-Pong. I hit one, and then you…
[as she hits the ball to Paul, he smashes it back and it hits the wall]
Ellie Chu: What the…?
Paul Munsky: Oops.


 

Paul Munsky: Hey, uh, can I ask you a question?
Ellie Chu: I don’t want to try a taco sausage.
Paul Munsky: Why Squahamish? Just like your dad seems so unhappy here, and you also seem kind of unhappy.
Ellie Chu: I got to go.


 

Paul Munsky: Just, you’re so smart. Like too smart to like…
Ellie Chu: Waste my time trying to win you a girl who’ll probably never look your way?
Paul Munsky: No, it just seems weird.
Ellie Chu: You’re weird!
Paul Munsky: No. Yes.


 

Paul Munsky: [to Ellie] The thing about No Exit is it’s like how what I really want is to run my own shop, with new recipes. And FYI, taco sausage is really effing good. Okay, but I’m the fourth son, and my family’s been making the same sausage for forty-nine years, and it doesn’t matter if they’re going broke, or out of style. They’re nana’s recipes, and if ma can’t have her nana, at least she can keep making her sausages. And if I break away, it’ll break her heart. And it’s either her heart or mine. So I stay.


 

Ellie Chu: We had to go where my dad could get a job.
Paul Munsky: He studied trains?
Ellie Chu: Engineering. PhD, no less.
Paul Munsky: So, uh, he became the station manager at Squahamish.
Ellie Chu: To start. The plan was to be promoted to system engineer. Or anything engineer. Squahamish was a jumping-off point. It turns out speaking good English trumps having a PhD. Or one from China anyway. And my dad, he..
Paul Munsky: Doesn’t speak very good.
Ellie Chu: He’s not bad!
Paul Munsky: I don’t speak very good either.
Ellie Chu: True. What’s your excuse?


 

[she gets Paul to practice having a conversation whilst playing Ping-Pong ]
Ellie Chu: Match energy, match strokes, and just say one thing. Where were you born?
Paul Munsky: In Squahamish. What about you?
Ellie Chu: Okay. Good. That wasn’t so hard.
Paul Munsky: But where were you born?
Ellie Chu: I don’t need talking practice.
Paul Munsky: It just seems like a really short conversation.


 

[as they continue to play Ping-Pong]
Ellie Chu: I was born in Xuzhou, China.
Paul Munsky: When did you come here?
Ellie Chu: When I was five. What do you like about Squahamish?
Paul Munsky: I’ve never been anywhere else.
Ellie Chu: Me neither.


 

Ellie Chu: You know what it’s like to finally meet someone your age who gets you?
Mrs. Geselschap: You know where else you can meet people your age who get you? College.


 

Paul Munsky: You should send some emojis.
Ellie Chu: I’m not sending her emojis!
Paul Munsky: Do pineapple, owl, caterpillar with glasses.
Ellie Chu: What does that mean? That doesn’t mean anything!
Paul Munsky: Glasses make the caterpillar look smart.


 

Paul Munsky: Favorite food?
Ellie Chu: Braised pork over rice. Yours?
Paul, Ellie: Taco sausage.


 

Ellie Chu: What do you like about Aster?
Paul Munsky: She’s pretty and smart. What else could I like about her?
Ellie Chu: I don’t know. How her eyes look right into yours. How you could live in an ocean of her thoughts, and she really knows…
Paul Munsky: I’m so stupid.
Ellie Chu: I just meant…
Paul Munsky: You like Aster?


 

Ellie Chu: What do you like about Aster?
Paul Munsky: She’s pretty, and smart, and she’s never mean. And she smells like fresh ground flour. Why?
Ellie Chu: Just wondering.


 

[referring to Aster]
Paul Munsky: What else could I like about her?
Ellie Chu: I don’t know. How her eyes look right into yours. How she twirls her hair when she’s reading. How her laugh busts out like she can’t help herself and she stops being so perfect for just a few moments. She has at least five different voices. How you could live in an ocean of her thoughts and feel like she knows, like really knows…
Paul Munsky: I’m so stupid.


 

[as Ellie thinks Paul’s discovered her true feelings for Aster]
Paul Munsky: No, I’m so dumb. Like a real idiot.
Ellie Chu: Don’t think that I…
Paul Munsky: No, what you said. That’s what you say when you love someone.
Ellie Chu: No, I was just talking! I would never, ever actually…
Paul Munsky: No, it is! And you don’t even care. I mean, I love her, and I can’t even… Ah!
Ellie Chu: You try, harder than anyone I’ve ever met. I mean, with the possible exception of my dad with my mom, to show a girl that you love them. And if love isn’t the effort you put in, then what is it?
Paul Munsky: Yeah?
Ellie Chu: Yeah.
[Ellie sighs with relief to herself]


 

[as Paul is about to have a second date with Aster]
Paul Munsky: I’m probably going to crash and burn, but thanks for sticking it out with me anyway.
Ellie Chu: Well, not like you didn’t pay me.
Paul Munsky: Well, uh, thanks.
[Paul turns to leave his truck]
Ellie Chu: Hey. You’re not going to crash and burn.
[to herself as Paul leaves]
Ellie Chu: You’re totally going to crash and burn.


 

[as Paul and Aster are having a disasterous date, Ellie sends Aster a text from Paul]
Aster Flores: You messaged me?
[quickly takes his phone off the table]
Paul Munsky: Yeah.
[the text message says, “I get nervous when you’re close.” Which makes Aster smile]


 

[after Paul tells Ellie he kissed Astra on their date]
Ellie Chu: How do you know she wants to be kissed?
Paul Munsky: She gives you a look.
Ellie Chu: A look?
Paul Munsky: Yeah, like, um…
[Paul tries to imitate the look, but fails]
Paul Munsky: Okay, she just gives you a look, and when you see the look, you make your move. Otherwise you come off looking like a real putz.


 

[as Ellie is on the stage to give her piano recital]
Teacher: Let’s give it up next for Ellie Chu!
[a student in the audience shouts out]
Student: Chugga-chugga-Chu-Chu!
[the audience laughs]


 

[to Paul; as the school audience is cheering for Ellie after she plays her song]
Trig Carson: When did Ellie Chu get kind of hot?


 

[after Paul brings Ellie to a party]
Ellie Chu: I want you to know that I can tell I have been drinking spirits. Because I have to pee far more often than would be indicated by plain punch. So don’t think I haven’t been monitoring the situation.
Paul Munsky: Cool, cool. How many cups have you monitored?
Ellie Chu: Mmm…


 

[after Aster invites Ellie to spend the day with her]
Aster Flores: I don’t think I’ve ever hung out with a girl and not talked about boys before.
Ellie Chu: Oh. Sorry.
Aster Flores: Don’t be. It’s nice.
Ellie Chu: Paul’s cool.
Aster Flores: He’s confusing. It’s like when I’m with him, I feel safe. He’s a sweet guy. Then it’s like he writes these things that feel not safe.
Ellie Chu: Not safe?


 

Ellie Chu: I don’t believe in God.
Aster Flores: That must be so nice.
Ellie Chu: No. It’s not. It’s lonely.


 

Aster Flores: I wish I knew what I believed. I keep asking God for a sign. And then Paul’s letter appeared in my locker. I’ve never felt so understood. It’s silly, right?
Ellie Chu: No. It’s not silly.


 

Ellie Chu: Gravity is matter’s response to loneliness.
Aster Flores: Who said that?
Ellie Chu: I don’t know.
Aster Flores: Then you said it.


 

[to Aster, as they are listenning to Chicago’s “If You Leave Me Now”]
Ellie Chu: My mom loved this song. She said every song, movie, story, has a best part.


 

[to Ellie after they spend a day together]
Aster Flores: I hope you find something good to believe in.


 

[after Paul attempts to kiss Elli and Aster sees them]
Paul Munsky: You like Aster? It’s a sin. You’re going to hell.


 

[after Paul finds out about Ellie’s true feelings for Astra]
Trig Carson: I’m onto you, Ellie Chu.
Ellie Chu: [to herself] This is a nightmare.
Trig Carson: I know why you’re always hanging around. Popping up everywhere.
Ellie Chu: Okay, it was just supposed to be one letter. I didn’t think…
Trig Carson: You’re in love with me.
Ellie Chu: Yes, Trig. I am in love with you.
Trig Carson: I get it.


 

[after Paul delivers sausage to Edwin]
Edwin Chu: Did you and Ellie break up?
Paul Munsky: No, we weren’t, um, together.
Edwin Chu: She seems sad.
Paul Munsky: No, you don’t see her.
Edwin Chu: See? See what?
Paul Munsky: Who she is. Could be. Her.


 

Edwin Chu: [to Paul] Have you ever loved someone so much, you don’t want anything about her to change?


 

[after Trig proposes to Aster at a church service and is interrupted by Paul]
Paul Munsky: Love isn’t pretending. I know, because I’ve been pretending. Only for a few months, but it sucks. And I’ve been thinking about how much it would suck to have to pretend to be not you your whole life. I always thought that there was one way to love. One right way. But there are more. So many more than I knew. And I never want to be the guy who stops loving someone for loving the way that they want to love.
Deacon Flores: And thank you, Paul. That was odd.


 

[after Ellie then interrupts the church service]
Ellie Chu: I also have been pretending. I’ve been pretending that…
Trig Carson: Don’t worry, everyone. I think I know where this is going. Ellie, I am so, so flattered, but, see, you and I are never…
Ellie Chu: You know, Trig, I have been writing your papers for the last four years. And if you’ll forgive me, I’m just going to rewrite you one last time.


 

Ellie Chu: Love isn’t patient, and kind, and humble. Love is messy, and horrible, and selfish, and bold. It’s not finding your perfect half. It’s the trying, and reaching, and failing. Love is being willing to ruin your good painting for the chance at a great one.


 

Colleen Munsky: Mommy wants you to know, in case you are gay, mommy still loves you.
Paul Munsky: I’m not gay, mom.
Colleen Munsky: Thank God.
Paul Munsky: I might want to change our sausage recipe though.
Colleen Munsky: Are you insane? I love that recipe!


 

[as she’s watching everyone in church argue after Paul and Ellie’s confessions]
Mrs. Geselschap: Now that is some divine intervention.


 

Edwin Chu: [subtitled] We didn’t come here so you could be like me. We came here so you could be like your mother.
[pause]
Ellie Chu: You don’t mean dead, right?
Edwin Chu: [subtitled] God, I hope not.


 

[after Ellie runs into Aster and reveals she’s leaving for Grinnell]
Ellie Chu: I’m sorry. It was just supposed to be one letter. I never meant to hurt you.
Aster Flores: Deep down, I probably knew the truth. You really didn’t use enough emojis in his texts.
Ellie Chu: I don’t know what they mean!
Aster Flores: A puppy, or a sausage.
Ellie Chu: I should have sent you a sausage emoji?
Aster Flores: Fair point.


 

Aster Flores: For what it’s worth, it’s not like the thought never crossed my mind. You know, if things were different. Or I was different.
Ellie Chu: You could never be different. “Am I sure I’m different? How do I know I’m sure?”
Aster Flores: [smiling] Hey, I can be sure.
Ellie Chu: “I mean, what does God think?”
Aster Flores: Oh, my God.
Ellie Chu: And on, and on, and on, and on.
Aster Flores: And you know, you watch. Okay? In a couple of years, I am going to be so sure.
Ellie Chu: Good luck with that.


 

Aster Flores: Find something good in Iowa to believe in, heathen.
[Ellie runs back and kisses Aster]
Ellie Chu: I’ll see you in a couple years.


 

[as Paul is seeing Ellie off at the train, she sends him a text]
Ellie Chu: Here.
Paul Munsky: The caterpillar does look smart.
Ellie Chu: Too smart to be crying on a platform like a wussy.
Paul Munsky: I’m not crying.
Ellie Chu: Wussy.


 

[last lines; as Paul starts running after the train, referring back to the movie they had watched together]
Paul Munsky: Hey! Hey! Hey!
Ellie Chu: What? Paul, what are you doing? Stop! Stop! What are you doing?
[she laughs and cries as she watches Paul run]
Ellie Chu: Moron.
[she then looks at the other passengers as the train heads off to her new life]


 

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  1. Julie Anne Joyce D. Porciuncula says

    May 8, 2020 at 7:29 am

    i really love the story… and all the cast.. waiting for what will happen after a couple of years… i will be waiting

  2. Julie Anne Joyce D. Porciuncula says

    May 8, 2020 at 7:27 am

    Its a different story… i love it so much

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