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Jan 11, 2009 03:50
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Nikolas: Look, it's not that it wouldn't be wonderful for Spencer to be with us right now. It's just that I don't know. His grandmother Lesley really enjoys having him around during the holidays.
Nadine: What about you? You're his father. It's none of my business. I will drink my coffee.
Nikolas: No, you're right. You're right. I'm not being fair. I keep telling you not to hide your feelings, and yet here I am shutting you out. I'm just -- I'm really worried that I'm doing it wrong -- raising my son, you know?
Nadine: No, I've seen you with him. You're great with him. You adore Spencer.
Nikolas: I know I adore him, but that's different than raising him. See, I got my parenting skills from my Uncle Stefan. He's a great, brilliant, brilliant man. But he's a little emotionally unattached.
Nadine: You're way too hard on yourself, Nikolas. You're a wonderful man with a beautiful heart. I just wish you could see yourself the way I see you.
Nikolas: You just sound just like my mother. And I mean that, I do, I mean that in the best possible way. She always told us that the best thing that you can do at the end of the year is look back and learn from your mistakes. She said it was the only thing that you can do to prepare yourself to move forward.
Nadine: You probably don't do New Year's resolutions, do you?
Nikolas: No, but there's a first time for everything, isn't there?
Nadine: Well, I'd guess you'd have to have some bad habits. And I know you pretty well by now, and so far I haven't noticed any.
Nikolas: Well, then, you need to pay closer attention.
[Nadine laughs]
Nikolas: What are your resolutions, Nadine?
Nadine: Okay. I resolve to be worthy of your trust, and to eat with my fingers, and not to obsess over the things I don't have any control over.
Nikolas: Good.
Nadine: Your turn.
Nikolas: My turn? Okay. I resolve to obsess a little less and laugh a little more and to accept that the best father Spencer can have is one who loves him.
Nadine: Perfect.
Nikolas: I have one more though.
Nadine: Hmm?
Nikolas: Will you spend the night with me?
Nadine: Great idea.
Luke: This is what life is all about. No one knows where the ball will land. You just have to put it all on the line.
Tracy: Well, I've never put it all on the line for any man.
Luke: Well, then it's time you did. Come on, take a chance.
Tracy: Nope. I'm not playing.
Luke: Black you stay, red you go -- unless you're afraid.
Tracy: It's rigged. You cheated.
Luke: No, the gods of the wheel are smiling down on us.
Tracy: What are you trying to prove?
Luke: That life is worth taking a chance -- that you and I are worth taking a chance. You know, I could fill this room with roses.
Tracy: With my money.
Luke: But that would not be us. We have something real, something honest. I don't want to lose that.
Lulu: We've had an interesting year. With all the heartache and being scared to death and wondering if things would ever be normal. At the end of it all, I still have you. I mean, gosh, being here like this seemed impossible. You know, I kind of think it's weird that people are, at the end of the year, always looking to the future -- the new year, without looking back at the past. I mean, how are you supposed to make it right and learn from your mistakes without looking back at the past?
Johnny: Hey, loving you could never be a mistake.
Lulu: Yes, see?
Johnny: What?
Lulu: That is a very important lesson that you learned this year.
Johnny: It is.
Lulu: So let's make a promise.
Johnny: Okay.
Lulu: Let's never start the new year with regrets.
Johnny: I can keep that promise.
Lulu: Yeah? Okay, cheers. Looks like it's going to snow. Weren't sure we were going to have a white Christmas.
Johnny: I'm glad it waited. What a drag it would've been working at that Christmas tree lot in the middle of a snowstorm.
Lulu: A drag? What? Oh, my gosh, we're leaving right now.
Johnny: Why? Where?
Lulu: Why? Where? You will see. Come on, get in your snow clothes, mister.
Johnny: Oh, I'm going to love this.
Lulu: Oh, don't say that.
Nadine: Wait.
Nikolas: What? What's wrong?
Nadine: There's just -- I don't know how to put this.
Nikolas: What, are you changing your mind?
Nadine: No.
Nikolas: Well, what's the matter?
Nadine: I don't want you to take this the wrong way.
Nikolas: What? Oh, I promise you, Alfred will not be coming here in the morning to serve us breakfast. I promise.
Nadine: You think I'm silly?
Nikolas: No, no. I think you're wonderful. You're the best thing that happened to me all year.
Maxie: Gesundheit. Stupid blackout.
Spinelli: Remind me to procure you an external hard drive for future back-up purposes.
Maxie: What future? Kate's going to fire me. I might as well be a waitress at Kelly's. Oh, wait, Kelly's burned down, so I can't do that.
Spinelli: You will write another story.
Maxie: I don't think I can.
Spinelli: Look, whining is for the commonplace. And Maximista is extraordinary. And my faith is unwavering. I know that in your heart, you have 2500 more words, maybe even 3000, just waiting to burst out on the page. 5000 -- your talent is limitless.
Maxie: Spinelli, I know you mean that. I just don't think whatever I write is going to be as good as that article that's now floating out there on the internet.
Spinelli: You know, is Maximista aware that on a certain Saturday night, William Shakespeare wrote the original draft of "Romeo and Juliet" by hand on parchment paper with a quill pen? He wrote one word, "curtain," and then collapsed in exhaustion. And when he woke up on Sunday, he found the entire manuscript had been ingested by his dog. So what did Shakespeare do? He picked himself up and set out to write the entire play over again. And what resulted was infinitely superior. You know, the original "Romeo and Juliet" could have been lost in the mists of time, a mediocre effort compared to the bard's other brilliant, but less romantic works. But because of a fleeting misfortune, Shakespeare was compelled to dig deeper. Now "Romeo and Juliet" is a classic for the ages -- all because of a rewrite.
Maxie: But that was William Shakespeare. And even I know he was the greatest playwright who ever lived.
Spinelli: And you are the beautiful and talented Maximista. If Shakespeare can rewrite an entire play, then 2500 words on the death of a foot-fashion icon is well within your reach.
Maxie: My whole life, the more someone knows me, the less faith they have in me. Not you. The more you trust me, the more I want to be trusted. The better you think I am, the better I want to be. Not sure why I'm different around you, Spinelli, but I'm grateful that I am.
Spinelli: Likewise, I am so much a better person because of Maximista, and you know I've always --
Maxie: Look, it's almost midnight. You can see the clock on the bank tower. Come see.
Maxie: Spinelli, I can't think of anyone I'd rather start the new year with.
Carly: Well, life is full of happy accidents. Like me, always being reckless and impulsive, well, it brought me up those stairs to being here sitting with you.
Jax: You know, I came up here to feel sorry for myself -- to remember a year that was one train wreck after another, and instead you reminded me that I'm one of the most fortunate men on the planet.
Carly: Well, here's to being fortunate.
Jax: To surviving the year.
Carly: To the year to come.
Jax: To the year to come.
Lulu: Come on, slowpoke, what is taking you so long?
Johnny: This isn't exactly what I had in mind.
Lulu: Lighten up, it's fun being spontaneous.
Johnny: Yes, but I was sort of hoping for the spontaneity that would take us into the other room where we get to take our clothes off.
Lulu: Oh, well, don't you know that if the snow falls on the new year it means you're going to have luck all year? I mean, we can't pass that up.
Johnny: Well, I'll freeze my butt off for you anytime.
Lulu: Good, and I hope you mean that, because we're not coming in until the snow falls.
Johnny: You do know the odds are against us.
Lulu: But haven't you heard? We Spencers are gamblers. We love odds that are against us. Come on, get your coat.
[Lulu whoops]
Luke: And another big win.
Tracy: You're letting me win.
Luke: No, I am not. I respect you too much to do that. The gods are smiling on you. This could be your lucky night.
Tracy: I don't believe in luck. I believe we are the masters of our own fate. When's Laura's birthday?
Luke: Why?
Tracy: When' s Laura's birthday?
Luke: December 21.
Tracy: Oh, did you remember to send her a room full of roses?
Luke: Oh, my God. All right, that's enough. I've had it. I'm not the one obsessed with Laura. You are. I don't think about her all the time. You do. And not only is it frustrating, it's very painful to watch.
Tracy: Don't Patronize me. I'm your wife.
Luke: Yes, you are. You are my wife. You're my wife by choice, because you didn't divorce me.
Tracy: Oh, but I can change that at any moment.
Luke: Well, then do it. Or don't. But stop sulking around like a teenager. You're acting like we're at the senior prom or something, and I looked at another girl. I can't give you perfect love. I never said I could, but I do love you. And I want you to come back to me.
Tracy: I threw you out. You have to come back to me.
Luke: Well, what the hell do you think this is?
Tracy: Okay. Laura's birthday is on the 21st. Mine is on April 6. Let's see who's lucky.
Luke: Okay. If it lands on six, you take me back.
Tracy: If it lands on 21, you give me my divorce and leave the country.
Luke: What about the numbers in between?
Tracy: I'll take my chances.
Johnny: Wow.
Lulu: Oh, my gosh.
Singer: The sun shines down on you so beautiful standing there you glow with every move my heart it pounds like a drum you kiss me now all I think about is me and you will you be mine today? Will you be mine tomorrow? Will you be mine?
Singer: The innocence that lives in you so wonderful you never have a single thing to prove out of sight out of mind simply undefined only you can know the stars you view will you be mine today? Will you be mine tomorrow? Will you be mine? Will you be mine? Will you be mine? So beautiful I love you will you be mine tomorrow? Will you be mine? Oh-ooh-ooh will you be mine?
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