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Thursdays on Paramount+Younger Season 7 Episode 2: "It’s the End of the World, Worm Girl" Quotes
Liza: It’s from the benefit this week. Thank you for your support table sponsor. See you this Saturday, Children’s Literary Fund. You know, C-Lit.
Kelsey: That’s the name? C-L-I-T? They better hope those kids don’t read.
Liza: Oh god, you’re right.
Lauren: It’s a love story, set in a glamorous arena very close to home. OK, let me set the stage with the characters. Love isn't just for the young and obviously desirable, right? Even with people ripening in Septembers and early Octobers of their years, love can find a way. Love, say, between a publishing titan with very big hands and shoes and a housewife from New Jersey who moved to New York to impersonate young people and learn about memes and Snapchat lens.
Charles: Lauren, I don’t think…
Liza: Actually…
Lauren: And this loveable kitten-eared imposter soon won the heart of the boss-slash-hero, who incidentally believes of promoting from within, and he summoned up the courage… no, I believe he can say this far better than me…
Video Charles: Will you marry me?
Video Liza: Oh my god.
Lauren: OK, so we didn’t get her answer here on video, but he got it, obvy, and therefore, it brings me great pleasure to present to you the Empirical family of the future, Mr. and Mrs. Charles…
Charles: Lauren, we’re not getting married.
Liza: We’re not engaged. It’s not happening.
Füpa: Maybe, you are right. I do get tired sometimes of always having better principles than everybody else. OK, I will bend to have my voice heard. That is good advice, Liesel.
Liza: I am so glad.
Füpa: But, I will give you small wisdom too. Adults give me advice all the time, and you know usually, no always, it is advice they need to hear themselves. Maybe, you bend don’t too. But what do I know? I’m just a 16-year-old girl who’s saving the world.
Liza: Can we compromise on the whole marriage thing?
Charles: Compromise how?
Liza: I think I was wrong to say never. It’s how I feel now, but who knows? In time maybe I change my mind, or maybe you do. But, let’s give ourselves that time, and if we each bend a little…
Charles: Liza, I’ve had to bend a lot to be with you ever since we met. You never asked me to but I walked away from my company for you. I bent on the custody agreement, time with my girls because Pauline was so upset about your lie. If I bend anymore, I’m going to break.
Liza: That’s not what I’m asking.
Charles: We just want different things. I realize that now. There are no villains here. As hard as it is, it’s best we both move on with respect, not anger.
Quinn: The title, are you ready? “The F Word.”
Charles: That sounds like you have an axe to grind.
Quinn: The ‘f’ is for failure, the dirtiest ‘f’ word there is, but it shouldn’t be because with failure comes opportunity. In success, people keep doing whatever it is they’ve been doing, but with failure, it makes you grow. It makes you rethink. We should be throwing a party for failure. We should be popping champagne and French kissing it.
