Lamb Mannerheim Quotes in Paradise (2013)

[first lines]

Lamb Mannerheim: This is me, before the accident.

[standing in the ocean in a sundress]

Lamb Mannerheim: And here's me after I was barbecued in jet fuel.

[sitting on the beach completely covered]

Lamb Mannerheim: The old-me was content, virtuous; believed in everything.

Lamb Mannerheim: [sundress] Marshmallow.

Lamb Mannerheim: What an idiot.

Lamb Mannerheim: I'm not a show girl.

Loray: Nobody cares what you are, hon.

Lamb Mannerheim: I care very much. I care about the message that I send out into the world. Besides, I could never do that anyway, people would stare. My skin.

Loray: Yeah, well I got a skin condition too. It's called black. "People would stare."

Lamb Mannerheim: I realized we *do* have something in common.

Loray: We do, huh?

Lamb Mannerheim: Yeah. You don't have any black friends, either.

William: If I'm so toothless, then how come you're afraid to come upstairs with me?

Lamb Mannerheim: Afraid? You've gotta be kidding me, I just spent my entire life being trained to follow a man with long hair and a beard. That would just be down right predictable.

Loray: Maybe it's just a Tuesday night, and I'm trying to be your magical a negro?

Lamb Mannerheim: Um, my what?

William: No! No!

Loray: Magical negro. Magical negro is a narrative convention in which a black person uses her special black wisdom to help a white person in need.

Lamb Mannerheim: He was a good pilot, but...

Amber: Did he get as messed up as you? All the shit on your neck?

Lamb Mannerheim: He lucked out.

Amber: Not a scratch, huh?

Lamb Mannerheim: No, he died.

Lamb Mannerheim: This, this is so much worse than home.

Amber: [laughs] Nothing's worse than home. Trust me, I'm scared for life.

[last lines]

Lamb Mannerheim: Some people say this whole world is broken. I say it's paradise.