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Allan Loeb Quotes

Total quotes: 13
“Just because something sounds crazy it doesn’t mean it’s not true!”
— Gardner Elliot, The Space Between Us
Tagged: crazy, True
“People write letters to the universe all the time...most don't get a response.”
— Brigitte, Collateral Beauty
Tagged: Letters, prayer, Universe, Void
“[arguing with Raffi the personification of Time] No, this is hell: being without her.”
— Howard Inlet, Collateral Beauty
Tagged: Hell, Missing Someone
“Tulsa: Once foster care spits me out I’m gone. Nobody’s ever real, you know.

Gardner Elliot: My best friend isn’t even real.

Tulsa: Tell me about it.”
— Gardner Elliot, The Space Between Us
Tagged: Existential dread, Existence, Foster Care, BFF
“[Brigitte shows up beside him in the subway] You're not going to take me, are you?”
— Howard Inlet, Collateral Beauty
Tagged: Death
“Brigitte: [sitting in hospital hallway] Are you losing somebody?

Madeline: I'm sorry?

Brigitte: Who are you losing?

Madeline: [breath trembling] Um, my daughter.

Brigitte: Just make sure you notice the collateral beauty.”
— Brigitte, Collateral Beauty
Tagged: Death, Loss, Loss of a Child
“We don't get to choose who we love or who loves us back. And that means you're powerless to me as long as you're alive, because I'm the fabric of life. I'm within you. I'm within everything. Howard, if you can accept that, then maybe... I don't know, but maybe you get to live again.”
— Amy Moore, Collateral Beauty
Tagged: Love, Life, Choice
“Who won? You or the porcelain?”
— Brigitte, Collateral Beauty
Tagged: Vomiting
“Raffi: Your children don't have to come from you. They go through you. So, I wouldn't consider the battle with time over just yet.

Claire: I thought time wasn't linear. I thought it was an illusion.

Raffi: Maybe that was just bullshit, Claire. Maybe that was just acting. [walks away]”
— Raffi, Collateral Beauty
Tagged: Children, Battle, linear, Illusion, Bullshit, Acting
“[as the personification of Time] Time, they say you heal all wounds, but they don't talk about how you destroy all that's good in the world, how you turn beauty into ash. Now that's some bullshit, Howard. Now, if love is creation and death is destruction, I'm just the terrain in between. You don't understand time, no one understands time. Einstein was close when he said I was just an illusion.”
— Raffi, Collateral Beauty
Tagged: Time, Time Heals All Wounds, beauty, Destruction, Death
“Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream Merrily, merrily merrily, merrily, life is but a dream! I got it. I got it! It all basically says that you're a natural part of life, we shouldn't hate you, we shouldn't fear you. I guess we should just accept you, right? That's it? I get it. Here's the thing. It's all a bunch of intellectual bullshit because she's not here holding my fucking hand.”
— Howard Inlet, Collateral Beauty
Tagged: row your boat, Hate, Dream, Bullshit, Fucking, Intellectual
“Amy: [as the personification of Love] I know you don't believe me, but you have to trust me.

Howard: Trust you? Trust you?

Amy: Yes!

Howard: I did trust you! And you betrayed me! I saw you every day in her eyes, and I heard you in her voice when she laughed, and I felt you inside of me when she called me "Daddy." And you betrayed me! You broke my heart.

Amy: No. I'm in all of it. I'm the darkness and the light, I'm the sunshine and the storm. Yes, you're right, I was there in her laugh, but I'm also here now in your pain. I'm the reason for everything. I am the only "why." Don't try and live without me, Howard. Please don't.”
— Amy Moore, Collateral Beauty
Tagged: Trust, Betrayal, Darkness, Light
“Whit: Why don't you want to spend the holiday with me? I miss you.

Allison: Because I hate you. Because you're a philanthropist. Because you broke Mom's heart.

Whit: Philanderer.

Allison: What?

Whit: The word you're looking for is philanderer, not philanthropist. They have a slightly different meaning.

Allison: Well, you would know.”
— Whit Yardsham, Collateral Beauty
Tagged: philanderer, philanthropist, Hate
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