Little Birds

"My best friend Lily thought she was drowning. Drowning in the Salton Sea. Even though the water was too polluted to set foot in, and left anything in their town either dying, or dead.... Lily was determined to never let it get her."

Alison: "Where's the furthest you've ever been?"

Hogan: "Bora Bora."

Alison: "No way."

Hogan: "I found work on a freighter. We docked there and I decided to stay."

Alison: "Was it amazing?"

Hogan: "I got a job at a resort where this mangy dog and her pup would hang around begging for food. The guest complained, so the manager sent me and this other guy, just a local, out to get 'em. The mother, she trusted humans, so she was easy. But her pup, she was a slippery little sucker. We couldn't get her no matter how hard we tried. We were supposed to take her out to the bigger island, about a 20-minute boat ride. My co-worker wanted to get home for dinner, though. His wife was making a Poisson Cru. So he threw the dog off the boat about halfway there."

Alison: "Oh, my God!"

Hogan: "That night the whole island could hear that pup howling and crying for its mother. I traveled halfway across the world to find out that people are dumb and cruel everywhere. I could've just stayed home."

"They say, if you're not confused, it means you're not thinking enough."

Lily: "You see all this white stuff?"

Jesse: "The sand?"

Lily: "It's not really sand. It's dead fish and bird bones."

Jesse: "Cool."

Lily: "Yeah."

Jesse: "So, you have a boyfriend?"

"My soul's beyond repair."

"The most painful goodbyes are the ones that are never said and never explained."

"I feel like something is stealing all my air."

Lily: "Why don't you just cut it off?"

Therapist: "Cut what out?"

Lily: "Cut it off."

Therapist: "Off?"

Lily: "Yeah, the hair on your face."

Therapist: "Are you talking about my mole?"

Lily: "Yeah, the fucking gross thing on your chin."

Therapist: "We're here to talk about you, Lily."

Lily: "How am I supposed to talk if I feel like I'm going to barf."

"I like your eyes."

"You need to talk to someone kido... You need to. And your surely not talking to me."

"Got my cigs?... These come open now?"

"They're like a little cartoon duo. Lily and Aly and the case of the haunted mansion."

Lily: "I like him."

Alison: "I know you do."

"You only get a little time between a cut and knowing how deep it is. If it's only going to be nicked, or disfigured forever. All you can do is try to stretch out that moment for as long as you possibly can. 'Cause once you know, there ain't no coming back."