Mara: I was in a really bad place, Chris.
Chris: I know. I was there.
Mara: Yes, you were.

Chris: I like the cactus. It's a nice touch. Is the metaphor intentional?
Mara: Chris, I said I was sorry. I'll keep saying it if it will make it better.

I try not to know anyone's name. It's just easier.

Alexis [to Paul]

Chris: I always imagined you'd have a second act. I didn't think it would be this.
Charlie: That makes two of us.

Chris: You know Charlie. He looms. He's got that paternal, gently edging toward threatening thing going.
Mara: Yeah. That's him.

Chris: I know you hate advice like this, but just be yourself.
Mara: Seriously? People pay you for that?

Holly: Have you ever danced?
Mara: I was a cheerleader.
Holly: Try and keep up.

I didn't create a suicide machine.

Alexis

You were perfect. You were always perfect. Goodbye, sweet girl.

Holly [to Sadie]

You want to be protected, you want me to keep lying to you, stay here and play with your phone. You want to take some responsibility, get out of the damn car.

Charlie [to Alexis]

Denise: The day's gotta get better from here, right?
Mara: Sure.

Charlie: Mara, just be careful in there.
Mara: Careful's my middle name.

Reverie Quotes

These are skills you can use on a job interview, on a date, in bed. It's a whole new way of seeing the world. But you have to look up [pulls a student's gaze away from her phone].

Mara [to her students]

This is a radical problem. Perhaps it requires a radical solution.

Alexis [to Charlie]