In Brokeback Mountain, the number 20 is meaningful—it’s the number of years that Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) knew each other, and the length of their on-again-off-again love affair. It’s also around the age that the two characters met for the first time while working to herd sheep up on Brokeback Mountain, spending the summer isolated together with nothing but nature around them. So it only makes sense that the movie’s 20th anniversary is kind of a big deal—it’s officially been two decades since we watched these characters live their lives for two decades.

I’d like to think of this anniversary as a chance for us to really appreciate the film for all that it is, especially since, when it was first released, it was treated more as the butt of a joke instead of the beautiful, heartbreaking masterpiece that it is. It’s our chance to leave the gay cowboy jokes behind and instead sit with the characters and setting and understand the role they had to play in the story—about love, about self-hatred, about repression, about fear, about loss. In a rural mountain town many decades ago, two cowboys fell in love—and there is no punchline. There is only the life they dream of and the life they actually have, and how the culture they live in (and their own fears surrounding it) harden them to the possibilities and ultimately keep them from their hearts’ desires.

It’s a lovely film full of beautiful and heartbreaking dialogue that will stick with you long after you’ve finished the movie. Here are the 20 best Brokeback Mountain quotes to celebrate its 20th anniversary:

1.

Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal): Jack Twist.

Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger): Ennis.

Jack: Your folks just stop at Ennis?

Ennis: Del Mar.

Jack: Nice to know you, Ennis Del Mar.

2.

Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal): Friend, that’s more words than you’ve spoke in the past two weeks.

Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger): Hell, that’s the most I’ve spoke in a year.

3.

Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger): This is a one-shot thing we got going on here.

Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal): It’s nobody’s business but ours.

Ennis: You know I ain’t queer.

Jack: Me neither.

4.

Lureen Newsome (Anne Hathaway): You don’t think I’m too fast, do you? Maybe we should put the breaks on?

Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal): Fast or slow, I just like the direction you’re going.

5.

Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger): Jack motherf*ckin’ Twist!

6.

Alma Beers Del Mar (Michelle Williams): You know, your friend could come inside, have a cup of coffee.

Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger): He’s from Texas.

Alma: Texans don’t drink coffee?

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Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal): Swear I didn’t know we were gonna get into this again. Hell, yes I did—red-lined it all the way, couldn’t get here fast enough.

9.

Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal): Brokeback got us good, don’t it?

10.

Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal): Anything interesting up there in heaven?

Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger): I was just sending up a prayer of thanks.

Jack: For what?

Ennis: For you forgetting to bring that harmonica. I’m enjoying the peace and quiet.

11.

Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger): If you can’t fix it, Jack, you gotta stand it.

Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal): For how long?

Ennis: For as long as we can ride it. There ain’t no reins on this one.

12.

Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal): We ought to go to Mexico.

Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger): Mexico? Hell, Jack, you know me, about all the traveling I ever done is ‘round a coffee pot looking for the handle.

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14.

Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal): There ain’t never enough time, never enough…

15.

Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal): You know, friend, this is a godd*mn b*tch of an unsatisfactory situation.

16.

Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger): You got a better idea?

Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal): I did once.

Ennis: You did once.

17.

Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal): Tell you what, we could’ve had a good life together! F*ckin’ real good life! Had us a place of our own. But you didn’t want it, Ennis! So what we got now is Brokeback Mountain! Everything’s build on that. That’s all we got, boy, f*ckin’ all. So I hope you know that, even if you don’t never know the rest. You could the damn few times we have been together in nearly twenty years and you measure the short f*ckin’ leash you keep me on, and then you ask me about Mexico and tell me you’ll kill me for needing something I don’t hardly get.

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19.

Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger): C’mon now, you’re sleepin’ on your feet like a horse. My mama used to say that to me when I was little. And sing to me.

20.

Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger): Jack, I swear…