It’s a secret I’ve kept for a while now. We all have. I’ve never wanted to tell anyone as much as I’ve wanted to tell you, but I can’t.

Why is Miller doing this? Something must have happened. Something must have changed.

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Oh well, it’s not the first time my heart’s been broken. I should have seen the signs.

Stallings: [while beating Sugar] The mystery man. Almost to the rescue.
Sugar: I’m unarmed! I’m unarmed! I don’t ‘want to hurt you.
Stallings: [chuckling] You don’t wanna, you don’t wanna hurt me?
Sugar: I don’t want violence.
Stallings: Five punches? In my book, violence is Manny shoots you in the knee while I stop you from wriggling around with my boot on your head so I can saw your arm off. I mean that’s, that’s violence.
Sugar: I understand you being drawn to it, I really do. I mean, that feeling of power. That’s not what I want, for me, for any of you. I just want Olivia back. Please, I just want to bring her home.

Melanie: What is it?
Sugar: I have a secret.

Someone once said, tip the world on its side, and everything loose lands in Los Angeles. Is that what is happening? After all this time, is this place starting to turn me upside down?

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Davy: I always felt like, like she didn’t like me, so I decided not to like her.
Sugar: She’s your sister. You were supposed to take care of her.

Davy: Women were always weird around me. Not weird, but I don’t know. I was a famous kid, I had this famous family, and they were around, so I never know how to, to figure out how to be normal with them, you know?
Sugar: By normal, what do you mean? You mean by not using violent threats to force women to have sex with you? Is that what you mean?

Margit: You are the last in a long line of great men and one day, you’ll inherit a fortune, and you know what you can do then?
Davy: What?
Margit: You can tell this town to go fuck itself.

I’ve been doing this a long time, but when it comes to people, I still have a lot to learn.

Bernie: Taking the night off from fighting crime?
Sugar: When invited to a glamorous Hollywood screening, how could I say no?

Melanie: You know that thing, the idea that we’re supposed to slow down, pay attention to things?
Sugar: Mm-hm.
Melanie: You know, we slow down, we put down our phones, maybe we see the world as beautiful?
Sugar: Yeah. Stop and smell the roses.
Melanie: Might be the opposite.
Sugar: What do you mean?
Melanie: Might be the reason we don’t look is because it’s all so sad and ugly.
Sugar: Yeah, but not everything. We have sea lions, Patti Smith, Cyprus trees. The sound of your little sister laughing after having fun.

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Nice place. She’s a Siegel, so of course it is.

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Mr. Spiegel: So, you’re a film buff.
Sugar: Buff? Buff is putting it lightly. It’s more like an addiction.