Beautiful Creatures (2013)

Alden Ehrenreich: Ethan Wate

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• Ethan Wate : Everybody has to deal with shit in their lives, Lena. You want to be a normal human what do you think that is? We don't have powers to change anything any time we want. Being human is feeling bad, it's feeling pissed off, it's feeling scared, it's you not being able to do anything about it until you don't feel that way anymore 'til you can just see your way out of it. And I yelled at you because I care about you, that's what normal people do who love each other! When one of them is acting like a brat! Now would you please stop raining on me!

• Emily Asher : I pray every night that you don't go straight to hell.

  Ethan Wate : Oh, I won't go straight to hell, Emily. I wanna stop off in New York first.

• Ethan Wate : Memories are erased. One look back at the sign, I remembered. I remembered you. Every moment we spent together. The secrets we kept. Everything came flooding back into my heart.

• Ethan Wate : What I can't figure is, you go to church everyday, how do you believe in all of this and still believe in God?

  Amma : God created all things didn't he? Only man will decide which ones is mistakes.

• Ethan Wate : You still don't get it, do you? I don't want to be any further away from you than I am right now. One way or another... Love is a risk for anybody... Go ahead, kill me.

• Ethan Wate : No! I'm sick of listening to your family. I have been chased, spun, hypnotized, paralyzed, and damn near killed by your family. I have been going out of my mind for the past two weeks, then your mother shows up on my doorstep and damn near gives me a heart attack, but you know what? I don't care about them, about the curse, you are not going dark and you are not losing me! No matter what they do, no matter what they do to me, I'm still here.

• Lena Duchannes : ...My family's... different.

  Ethan Wate : Different how?

  Lena Duchannes : We do things... We do *different* things...

  Ethan Wate : So, what--you're from Europe?

• Ethan Wate : My momma says there's two types of people that live in Gatlin: the people too stupid to leave and the ones too stuck to move.

• Ethan Wate : I'm agreeing with you! OK, I'm just a dumb-ass mortal who can't make his own thunder, but I know there's no way we're gonna figure this out unless you stop feeling so damn sorry for yourself! Go ahead! Start an earthquake, see where that gets you.

• Ethan Wate : Don't worry you'll find it, just look under how not to turn into your mother.

• Lena Duchannes : Ethan, promise me one thing: it will be a perfectly normal human date.

  Ethan Wate : I swear. I won't even call you after the date.

  Lena Duchannes : Jerk.

  Ethan Wate : Witch.

  Lena Duchannes : Jock.

• Ethan Wate : I'm Ethan Wate.

  Lena Duchannes : Ethan Wate? You mean *the* Ethan Wate drove me home?

  Ethan Wate : You've... You've heard of me?

  Lena Duchannes : No.

• Ethan Wate : There's no way that what Lena and I feel for each other is going to turn into something wrong and evil. There's no way.

  Macon Ravenwood : As long as I live I will never understand you creatures. You have no real power, you live at the mercy of forces outside of your control and yet you believe that what you feel, will somehow make it alright.

• Ethan Wate : You know what I can't figure is, you go to church every Sunday. How do you believe in all this and still believe in God?

  Amma : God created all things, didn't He? It's only men who go and decide which ones are mistakes.

• Ethan Wate : [under Macon Ravenwood's spell]  ... I'll get my teaching degree, and, and, probably teach at the high school... Or maybe I'll take over the library from Amma... I'll, I'll probably marry Emily Asher and we'll have two kids, but... I'll never make enough money for her, so I'll start drinkin'... Get three DUIs and lose my job, and uh, have an affair on and off with Savannah Snow 'til I'm 49; the kids will live with their mother after we divorce--then when I'm 52 I'll have my first heart attack; another one at 63. I'll move into an apartment above 'The Wayward Dog' bar and help them sweep up after hours for free drinks, and then when I'm 64, I'll hang myself... But they won't find the body right away, until I stink...

  Macon Ravenwood : Well... You've got it all planned out! Good for you!

• Ethan Wate : Your gonna think I'm so uncool.

  Lena Duchannes : It's OK. I don't think you're cool now.

• Ethan Wate : Is it good?

  Lena Duchannes : Define good.

• Amma : Did you go for a run last night?

  Ethan Wate : Yep.

  Amma : Did it help you sleep?

  Ethan Wate : I envy people in comas.

• Ethan Wate : [Narrating]  We don't get movies here until they're already out on DVD, and they always get the titles wrong

  [He goes by a marquee showing "Interception" starring Leo DiCaprio] 

• Lena Duchannes : You can't help it, can you?

  Ethan Wate : What?

  Lena Duchannes : Fitting in anywhere, drooling charm.

  Ethan Wate : I never know whether you're insulting me or not.

  Lena Duchannes : I'm sorry.

  Ethan Wate : Hey, I like it. If it makes any difference, uh, I like you.

• Ethan Wate : I can understand why young men signed up for the Civil War. Anything is better than a life standing still.

• Ethan Wate : My mom always said that people in Gatlin were either too stupid to leave or to stuck to move.

• Ethan Wate : [Lena has just made the lianas outside her window grow]  Whoa! Can you make anything grow?

• Ethan Wate : There are no coincidences.

• Ethan Wate : Most people spend their entire lives waiting for a moment that's gonna change everything. It never happens.

• Ethan Wate : This must run under the whole town.

  Amma : The whole country. Gatlin is like the capital of Caster America. It used to be under Washington, D.C., until Nancy Reagan made them move. She was the only mortal they were ever scared of.

• Ethan Wate : [Narrating]  I imagine all kinds of things lately. Sometimes, I'm Billy Pilgrim, from Vonnegut's banned book Slaughterhouse Five... to be unstuck in time, in a constant state of stage fright, never knowing what part of my life I'd have to act in next.