INLAND EMPIRE - So tell me, how does it feel -- to be close to someone, skin to skin?
YOU - It's good, but I'd prefer a man. A solid muscularity would support me better.
JOYCE MESSIER - “Indeed. There is a term of endearment they coined for it. In the Dolorian century, when humanity was *high* on this world, discovering more and more of it -- these archipelagos included...”
YOU - “What is it?”
JOYCE MESSIER - “Elysium.”
VOLITION - I can't help you. I am totally useless. Everything I've said is lies. I want the exact same bad things you want. To stand here, like a pillar of salt.
Hard facts from the man you are. You once jerked off in the locker room and were caught. You held a young woman by the arm and kept her in your apartment for 20 minutes against her will. That's right, these are not flights of fancy. These are *real deeds*, Harry
INLAND EMPIRE - It's all gone now. You never became a poet or an entroponaut.
LOGIC - Sometimes a kebab is just a kebab.
KIM KITSURAGI - “Press your damn cheek against Lamby, okay?” The lieutenant sounds authoritative -- and surprisingly gruff.
No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.
ACELE - Ah! No. This is a *contact microphone*, it's for recording *inside* solid objects. Contact Mike just beats people up.
YOU - I don't want to be this kind of animal anymore.
EMPATHY - He was confused when he died. Confused and alone, most likely. Overcome with the awful surprise of it all.
MEASUREHEAD - PINKNESS IS A RACIAL QUALITY THAT HAS TO BE EARNED THROUGH CENTURIES OF ADVANCED BALLISTIC WARFARE AND CULTURAL DOMINATION THAT THE GRAAD PEOPLE HAVE UNDERGONE FOR DRINKING AL GUL AND SMOKING THE DEGENERATE *TABAC* HERB... AND FOR EATING *POTATO*.
VOLITION - Any plan to call him Pinball or Kimball is immediately wiped from your neocortex, as if with some sort of mind altering device. It is simply not going to happen.
PALEDRIVER - “What are we *doing* here? For thousands of years, Gabriel... It doesn't have to be like this. We can just give up. We can just become vapour.”
YOU - “I approve of this, very futuristic.” (Tap on the girls kissing.)
YOU - Revachol was founded to resolve history. It's the most important city in the world.
YOU - No, I'll show you how a gentleman treats a doorbell! (Kiss the doorbell.)
“I enjoy thinking about truly fundamental concepts, like the alphabet for instance.”
STEBAN, THE STUDENT COMMUNIST - Julia Dobreva came from Graad. Jean Abadanaiz was born in Revachol. She was brilliant, charismatic, a revolutionary comet. He was her partner and stabiliser, the planet who kept her in orbit.
ENCYCLOPEDIA - The Antistar is (or was) a Vespertine rock and roll star, who liked to do drugs. He did so many drugs he eventually mutated -- into a corpse.
YOU - …I don't want to masturbate on the street, okay?
ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Whatever, coward.
YOU - I can't give up. I have to keep going, for Revachol...
YOU - Found a corpse recently. He'd had a Tequila Sunset moment.
And above all, you let life defeat you. All the gifts your parents gave you, all the love and patience of your friends, you drowned in a neurotoxin. You let misery win. And it will keep on winning till you die -- or overcome it.
JEAN VICQUEMARE - That's right -- 'worried'. I'm always worried about you. Every time you don't show up to work, or when you do -- but *stink*.
YOU - I don't want to get better -- I want to get worse.
JOYCE MESSIER - Don't worry, Kras Mazov shot fifteen million people in the head. But that was all the way over in Graad.
YOU - What is beauty?
KLAASJE (MISS ORANJE DISCO DANCER) - “When you have the fewest deviations from the norm. I've been told it's a type of mediocrity that I possess.”
INLAND EMPIRE - You focus on the hug and for a moment everything feels serene. You hear her heart beating -- or perhaps it's your own.
INLAND EMPIRE - I wonder how long has it been since you last hugged someone?
YOU - “So I should just... just... get a hat and FUCK it, right?!” (Point at your head, where the hat should be.) “Engage in sexual intercourse with a hat right here in front of you, because you told me so? On the SEA ICE?!”
