Donnie Darko quotes

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Donnie Darko
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View Quote Not only am I a teacher, but I am also the mother of a Middlesex child. Therefore, I am the only person here who transcends the parent-teacher bridge.

View Quote Okay, now girls... I want you to concentrate. Failure is not an option. And Bethany, if you feel the need to vomit up there... just swallow it.

View Quote Some people are just born with tragedy in their blood.

View Quote Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion!

View Quote Sometimes the search is all we have to keep us going.

View Quote They say it right when they flood the house and they tear it to shreds, that destruction is a form of creation. So the fact that they burn the money is ironic. They just want to see what happens when they tear the world apart. They want to change things.

View Quote This famous linguist once said that of all the phrases in the English language, of all the endless combinations of words in all of history, that "cellar door" is the most beautiful.

View Quote Twenty-eight days... Six hours... Forty-two minutes... Twelve seconds... That is when the world will end.

View Quote Wake up Donnie... I've been watching you.

View Quote What if you could go back in time, and take all those hours of pain and darkness and replace them with something better?

View Quote Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?

View Quote [in a letter] Dear Roberta Sparrow, I have reached the end of your book and... there are so many things that I need to ask you. Sometimes I'm afraid of what you might tell me. Sometimes I'm afraid that you'll tell me that this is not a work of fiction. I can only hope that the answers will come to me in my sleep. I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to.

View Quote [reading from Graham Greene's The Destructors] "It was as though this plan had been with him all his life, pondered through the seasons, now in his fifteenth year crystallized with the pain of puberty."

View Quote [To Sherita Chen] I promise, that one day, everything's going to be better for you.