Joan of Arcadia (TV Series)
Death Be Not Whatever (2003)
Amber Tamblyn: Joan Girardi
Quotes
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Cute Boy God : Remember me?
Joan Girardi : Why all the familiar looks? Doing the greatest hits, or are you getting a little pleased with yourself?
Cute Boy God : You see me the way you want to see me, Joan. Like right now, you're mad at me... maybe you feel safer being mad at me when I look like this.
Joan Girardi : You have a lot to answer for, buddy! No one asks to be born!... So we all get to die, and then everyone we love dies?
Cute Boy God : Yeah.
Joan Girardi : And... and that's good for you?
Cute Boy God : Joan, there's nothing about death that I can say that would make sense to you.
Joan Girardi : A lot of what happens here really sucks, so much for your... perfect system... Can you see me being really mad at you right now?
Cute Boy God : Yes.
Joan Girardi : Why does it have to be so hard?
Cute Boy God : What specifically?
Joan Girardi : Being alive, let's start there.
Cute Boy God : You wish you weren't alive?
Joan Girardi : No! I... I don't know. I wish... it didn't... hurt so much.
Cute Boy God : It hurts because you feel it, Joan... because you're alive. You love people, that generates a lot of power, a lot of energy. The same kind of energy that binds atoms together, we've all seen what happens when you try to pry them apart.
Joan Girardi : So, if I don't get attached to people then... it won't hurt so much?
Cute Boy God : No, it's in your nature to get attached to people, I put that in the recipe. It's when you guys try to ignore that... when you try to go it alone, that's when it gets ugly. It's hell.
Cute Boy God : It's Hell? Like the Hell?
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Joan Girardi : Why can't they make homeroom at a reasonable time? I mean, you're the chief of police. Can't you take care of it?
Will Girardi : [sarcastic] It's on the top of my list: investigate public school schedules.
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Joan Girardi : [seeing a news report about Will's police brutality case] Whoa. Dad, you're not in trouble over this, are you?
Will Girardi : I'm the chief of police. It's my job to be in trouble.
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Sylvia Tardio : He was up, wasn't he?
Joan Girardi : Yeah, he was. I-I'm a... I'm a bad disciplinarian.
Sylvia Tardio : It's okay, 'cause I'm in a good mood. I passed my latest exam - whoo! - and I just found out that my babysitter is coming back to town. Apparently, Hawaii was too humid for her hair.
Joan Girardi : Oh. Okay.
Sylvia Tardio : Yeah, so tomorrow will be your last day with Rocky.
Joan Girardi : Oh.
Sylvia Tardio : You went and got attached to him, didn't you? He has that way with people.