Dedee Truitt Quotes in The Opposite of Sex (1998)

[Narrating at the beginning of the movie]

Dedee Truitt: My name is Dedee Truitt. I'm sixteen, and this is Creve Coeur, Louisiana... which is French, I think, for like, 'fucked heart'.

Dedee Truitt: What'd you think, *I'd* be the dead one? I'm the fucking narrator, guys! Keep up!

Dedee Truitt: Lucia and Carl had their baby. You can imagine the pick of that litter. It was the kind of kid that if you played with it too much after a feeding, you threw up.

Dedee Truitt: [narrating] Rule one of sex: a person can do anything for ten minutes if they don't breath in.

Dedee Truitt: Bill's kind of cute. I mean, even though he's old.

Lucia: He's 35!

Dedee Truitt: Yeah but he's still kind of cute. Too bad he's a fairy, right?

Lucia: [huffily] That is not how I would put it.

Dedee Truitt: Well, then too bad he's however *you'd* put it.

Dedee Truitt: Les was a real asshole. To get cancer of the ass was, like, poetic. Almost as good as cancer of the dick, if they have that.

Dedee Truitt: I know in movies you kind of feel sorry for girls like this, but in real life, you wouldn't be sitting next to her either.