Carson Phillips Quotes in Struck by Lightning (2012)

Carson Phillips: Because a life without meaning, without drive, without focus, without goals or dreams isn't a life worth living. Life comes at you fast. It runs through your body and tries to escape and be expressed in any way possible. In a way, it's a lot like... lightning.

Carson Phillips: In what grade do we stop believing in ourselves? In what grade do we just stop believing, period? I mean, someone has to be a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Someone has to be a ballerina. Why not us? I can't be the only one that gets that.

Carson Phillips: Shakespeare once wrote that life is but a dream - and that's exactly how I live my life, from one dream to the next, hating every update of reality.

Carson Phillips: 2, 4, 6, 8. Heard you like to fornicate.

Carson Phillips: [voiceover] I wanted to be heard so bad that I never thought about listening, but what I regretted the most was that I lived every day waiting for my life to begin.

Student: What's this?

Malerie Baggs: A magazine.

Student: [to Carson] Dick.

Carson Phillips: [voiceover] The higher your cloud, the further your rain falls.

Carson Phillips: I wrote you a story, Grandma.

Grandma: Oh, let's see. "Once upon a time there was a boy." Why! It could use a little development, but-but it's a great beginning.

Sheryl Phillips: You were on ADD medication as a kid, and you turned out somewhat decent.

Carson Phillips: No, I wasn't.

Sheryl Phillips: I hid it in your food.

Carson Phillips: I thought I was just really calm and mature for my age.

Sheryl Phillips: Nope, you were drugged. When your father and I started our divorce, you started asking so many questions we found it easier to roofie you than answer you.

[first lines]

Carson Phillips: I always thought death would be different. I expected a great wave of realization to sweep over me - suddenly the meaning of life would be answered along with every other question I ever had - but there was nothing to realize. I was dead.

Carson Phillips: Malerie, why-why do you film everything? I mean, I'm sure you don't want to remember... EVERYTHING.

Malerie Baggs: What isn't worth remembering? With good memories come bad memories and I've got a lot of both. At least this way I can fast-forward through all the bad stuff.

Carson Phillips: [talks emotionally] Sometimes I just don't get it. Life. I mean, why do some of us have to work so hard for things we believe in and others don't? I mean, why do some of us care so much? Why are some of us selfish by nature and some of us are selfish to survive?

Grandma: [knits] Dear, I'm making this for my grandson.

Carson Phillips: [whimpers] What is it?

Grandma: [hesitates] A scarf-blanket.

[is stirred and laughs]

Carson Phillips: I don't want you to shit a dime for me, Nicholas.

Sheryl Phillips: You need to be on antidepressants.

Carson Phillips: No way. You're medicated enough for the both of us.

Carson Phillips: You've seen my end, but where do I begin?

Sheryl Phillips: You know, you make me wish I'd had that abortion back in the '90s.

Carson Phillips: That makes two of us.

Remy Baker: I hate you more than I hate the holocaust.

Carson Phillips: Bite me, hobbit.

Grandma: You remind me of my grandson.

Carson Phillips: I do? Why is that?

Grandma: You're sad-looking.

Carson Phillips: Thank you for being the perfect example of something I refuse to become!

Sheryl Phillips: If you were decent. you would just let me sleep.

Carson Phillips: If I's decent. I'd just PUT you to sleep.

Carson Phillips: Poor Mom. She spent her entire life trying to be Betty Crocker... and became Betty Ford.

Principal: I think I speak for the entire faculty when I say... your son was an absolute joy.

Carson Phillips: Oh, kiss my embalmed ass.

Carson Phillips: So, Emilio, how long have you been a fornicating exchange student, hm?