“You balance off your walk through the hog-wallow against what it gains you. You choose the lesser of two evils and try to keep your good intentions in front of you.”
― Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
― Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
“We each had our reasons for wanting the fantastical world promised by Rabbits to replace the flawed emotional narrative of our real lives.”
― Rabbits
― Rabbits
“I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don’t want to know. Some things are better left unsaid. I’d like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can’t expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a grey place dares to dream. It was as if some beautiful bird had flapped into our drab little cage and made these walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free.”
― Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
― Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
“What was right with him he’d only give you a little at a time. What was wrong with him he kept bottled up inside.”
― Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
― Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
“Jeff Goldblum does not belong in this world.”
― Rabbits
― Rabbits
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