Everwood.
Ephram: The more things change, the more they stay the same. I'm not sure who the first person was said that. Probably Shakespeare or maybe Sting. But at the moment, that sentence best explains my tragic flaw; my inability to change. I don't think I'm alone in this. The more I get to know other people, the more I realize it's kind of everyone's flaw: staying exactly the same for as long as possible, standing perfectly still just feels better somehow. And if you are suffering...at least the pain is familiar. Because if you took that leap of faith, went outside the box, did something unexpected, who knows what other pain might be waiting out there? Chances are it could be worse, so you maintain the status quo; choose the road already traveled, and it doesn't seem that bad; not as far as flaws go. You're not a drug addict, you're not killing anyone...except maybe yourself a little. When we finally do change, I don't think it happens like an earthquake or an explosion, where all of a sudden we're another person. I think it's smaller than that. The kind of thing that most people wouldn't even notice unless they looked really really close, which, thank God they never do. But you notice it. Inside of you, that change feels like a world of difference, and you hope that it is; that this is the person you get to be forever...that you'll never have to change again.
Moonlight Mile
Joe Nast: I'm sorry, I can't, I can't do this. It didn't happen. We loved each other, we broke it off. If I don't -- Jesus, if I don't say this now, it'll never - (sigh) she'll never be a part of this. What are we - what are we doing here? I don't even - I don't even know this guy. She - she didn't even know this guy. What's he got to do with her? I don't - look, you asked me to bring her in the room, and she's not here - she's not. And whatever happens here, whatever happens to this guy, she's not here. And the only way that you're gonna bring her in here is with the truth. I don't know - I don't know what else to say. You just tell me what to say, and I swear, I'll try, but if you want her, you got to keep it honest. You have to understand that Diana had this thing, this way of bringing out the real in people, not just the best, you know - their honesty. And I guess she's doing it again now 'cause there's no way I'd be sitting here saying these things I can't believe are coming out of my mouth. It was Diana who finally had the courage. She was the one who told me that I didn't want to go through with it. And I guess she's - she's doing it again, 'cause all of this - all of this - is everything that she wouldn't want. She wasn't a bride-to-be. She wasn't a victim. She was strong and real and messed up and wickedly honest, just like her mother. And if I sit here trying to paint it any other way, I...oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I just - I thought - (sigh) I thought that if I could just...paint the pictures that you needed, you know, that...(voice breaks) that somehow...that somehow you'd bring these people some peace, finally, and they'd have their daughter back, or... But, uh...that's not how she'd wanna be. The truth is hard. Sometimes it looks so wrong, you know - the color's off, the style's wrong, but I guess it - I guess it's where the good one's live.