Rochelle's comment (when she and Ruby are having lunch...about 26 minutes into the movie): "As one of my professors says: 'Necessity has always been our easiest excuse'". I love little pithy cliches like that.
Another line I like (early in the movie)...Ruby: "I got out of (location, I can't remember where) without getting pregnant or beat-up...that's an accomplishment."
"Why slave your life out, when you can just take?" - Ruby, before she dumps all the stuff she stole into the charity bin.
"You know mom, I'm a big fan of this asprin... can't believe we give it to children."
Rochelle's response to Ruby on what she would teach: "how to survive with your soul intact." I love that line and how the actress delivers it. Her facial expression had such meaning and subtext it made me a lot more interested in Rochelle's back story.
shareYeah, Rochelle is cool. Also, Ruby's neighbor, another young woman like Ruby, is an amazing character played perfectly. She's got a line that always stayed w/ me: "It's amazing how much you grow in a couple of months." So earnest yet ironic it seemed to me because, imo, she seemed to be rather lost. Earnest and beautiful, but lost.
There are so many great lines in this movie, but my favorite is probably the one Ruby says in voiceover after a scene where her and Mike have an argument. The argument ends with Mike apologizing and them coming to an understanding. After the argument they have a sweet, pretty long embrace, they put their arms around one another and walk into the night away from the camera. It's a very poignant, romantic moment, and a lesser writer or director would use the moment to allow us more time for them to be together. But Nunez goes straight to the heart: an acknowledgement that that argument, though ended without malice, was the beginning of the end of their relationship. Over the two of them walking away tenderly into the night, Ruby says in voiceover, "That's when I started seeing less of Mike." I've seen a lot of movies, and that's one of the most realistic, "truest" lines I can remember. I bet it was hard to write...
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."