Garrett Breedlove Quotes in Terms of Endearment (1983)

[Lying in the surf after being thrown from the car]

Garrett Breedlove: If you wanted to get me on my back, all you had to do was ask me.

Garrett Breedlove: I like the lights on.

Aurora Greenway: Then go home and turn them on.

[Arriving back from their first date]

Aurora Greenway: Would you like to come in?

Garrett Breedlove: I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.

Aurora Greenway: Everything would have been just fine, you know, if you hadn't gotten drunk. I was... I... I just didn't want you to think I was like one of your other girls.

Garrett Breedlove: Not much danger in that unless you curtsy on my face real soon.

Aurora Greenway: Garrett! What is it that makes you so insistent on shocking and insulting me? I mean, I really hate that way of talking. You must know this. Why do you do it?

Garrett Breedlove: I'll tell you, Aurora. I don't know what it is about you, but you do bring out the devil in me.

Garrett Breedlove: You're just going to have to trust me about this one thing. You need a lot of drinks.

Aurora Greenway: To break the ice?

Garrett Breedlove: To kill the bug that you have up your ass.

Aurora Greenway: Do you have any reaction at all to my telling you I love you?

Garrett Breedlove: I was just inches from a clean getaway.

Garrett Breedlove: Wind in the hair! Lead in the pencil!

Garrett Breedlove: [on their first date] Aurora...

Aurora Greenway: Yes?

Garrett Breedlove: You're not *fun*, by any chance, are you?

Aurora Greenway: I don't really think we should think about that right now.

[pause]

Aurora Greenway: Impatient boys sometimes miss dessert!

Garrett Breedlove: Breedlove at the helm! Just keep pumping that throttle! Keep giving it that gas! I see the Gulf of Mexico below me!

Aurora Greenway: I'm not enjoying this!

Garrett Breedlove: A hundred and six astronauts in the whole fucking world and I'm one of 'em!

Garrett Breedlove: There she is, the evening star. She shines first, she shines brightest, and she shines longest.

Garrett Breedlove: Aurora, I love you.

Aurora Greenway: That would be just like you, Garrett.