29 Quotes From '500 Days Of Summer' To Remind You That Love Is Dead
29 quotes
This is a story of boy meets girl, but you should know upfront, this is not a love story.
“Summer [Tom is listening to headphones in an elevator with Summer. She notices the music]: 'I love the Smiths.' Tom: 'Sorry? Summer: 'I said I love the Smiths.' [They stare at each other for a moment] 'You... You have good taste in music.' Tom [Repeating after her]: 'You... like the Smiths?' Summer…”
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Summer, Tom, amazon.com
“Tom: 'Look, we don't have to put a label on it. That's fine. I get it. But, you know, I just... I need some consistency.' Summer: 'I know.' Tom: 'I need to know that you're not gonna wake up in the morning and feel differently.' Summer: 'And I can't give you that. Nobody can.'”
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Tom, Summer, amazon.com
“Summer: 'Well, you know, I guess it's 'cause I was sitting in a deli and reading Dorian Gray and a guy comes up to me and asks me about it and... now he's my husband.' Tom: 'Yeah. And... So?' Summer: 'So, what if I'd gone to the movies? What if I had gone somewhere else for lunch? What if I'd gotten…”
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Tom, Summer, amazon.com
“Narrator: 'As he listened, Tom began to realize that these stories weren't routinely told. These were stories one had to earn. He could feel the wall coming down. He wondered if anyone else had made it this far. Which is why the next six words changed everything.' Summer: 'I've never told anybody th…”
— Richard McGonagle, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, The Narrator, Tom, Summer, amazon.com
“Partygoer: 'So Tom, what is it that you do?' Tom: 'I, uh, I write greeting cards.' Summer: 'Tom could be a really great architect if he wanted to be.' Partygoer: 'That's unusual, I mean, what made you go from one to the other?' Tom: 'I guess I just figured, why make something disposable like a build…”
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Tom, Summer, amazon.com
“Summer: 'We've been like Sid and Nancy for months now.' Tom: 'Summer, Sid stabbed Nancy, seven times with a kitchen knife, I mean we have some disagreements but I hardly think I'm Sid Vicious.' Summer: 'No, I'm Sid.' Tom: 'Oh, so I'm Nancy...?'”
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Tom, Summer, amazon.com
“Tom [Starts to take a drink of champagne]: 'That was actually my nickname in college. They called me "Perfectly Adequate" Hansen.' Summer: 'They used to call me "Anal Girl."' [Tom nearly gags on his drink] Summer: '...I was very neat and... organized.'”
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Tom, Summer, amazon.com
“Paul: 'So what are you exactly?' Tom: 'I don't know.' Paul: 'Are you her boyfriend?' Tom: 'It's not that simple.' McKenzie: 'Sure, it is.' Tom: 'What, like, are we going steady? Come on, guys. You know, we're-we're adults. We know how we feel. We don't need to put labels on it. I mean, "boyfriend,"…”
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Geoffrey Arend, Matthew Gray Gubler, Tom, McKenzie, Paul, amazon.com
“Tom: 'It's off.' McKenzie: 'What?' Tom: 'Me and Summer.' McKenzie: 'Was it ever on?' Tom: 'No, but it could've been, in a world where good things happen to me.' Paul: 'Yeah, well, that's not really where we live.'”
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Geoffrey Arend, Matthew Gray Gubler, Tom, McKenzie, Paul, amazon.com