Elena Undone (2010)

Thunderbird Dinwiddie: Peyton

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• Peyton : [voice-over]  I miss you... honestly I've missed you before our last kiss was finished... I just want you to know that I am with you... in heart... soul... spirit... Elena, your beauty radiates from your soul... Hmm... I finally understand the cliché term take ones breath away... you take my breath away... When you kiss me... oh God... when you kiss me, Elena... with your entire body, soul and being... I remember the night you showed up and made love to me was no word... Elena, I have never let anyone have me... not anyone take me... ravage me... as I have left you... You have given me such a gift... the other side of myself... you've made me whole...

• Elena : Make love to me.

  Peyton : [caught off guard]  What? I thought you wanted to wait.

  Elena : Peyton... make love to me.

  Peyton : I want to, Elena. I really... really want to. But you must know that once we go there... once we cross that line, there's no going back.

  Elena : [after a pause]  I don't want to go back.

• Elena : How did you know you were gay?

  Peyton : How'd you know you were straight?

• Peyton : I really like you. More than I should. So... we don't, you know, have to talk about it or anything. I mean, I'm fine with that. I just think that if we just... don't spend time...

  Elena : No! No! No, god, Peyton. No! I don't want to not spend time!

  Peyton : But, you just heard what I said...

  Elena : Yes, but we... we need to be in each other's lives! I just found you! You're my absolute best friend. And I know we can get around this. I don't want to not be with you. And you can have *all* of me. All of it except for that. All of me.

  Peyton : Okay, just so you know... 'that' is a big deal for a lesbian. I mean, at least in the beginning.

  Elena : I just... Peyton, let's have some wine. Let's make a plan. Just please, please don't take you away from me.

• Elena : [kissing Peyton]  Are you afraid to be alone with me?

  Peyton : [breathlessly]  Yes.

  Elena : Seriously?

  Peyton : Seriously.

• Peyton : [to Elena]  Every time I think it's impossible to love you more, I do. Ever deeper.

• Peyton : [to Elena about new book project]  Women are so complex, so multi-dimensional. I just want to dig in. I want to show all their colors... Show everything that makes a woman so... delicious.

• Peyton : I'm gonna make myself less available. Actually, unavailable.

  Wave : Ohhhh. The I'm-too-busy-and-too-much-of-a-chicken-shit-to-tell-you-what's-really-going-on, fade-into-the-woodwork treatment.

• Elena : He hasn't touched me since we've been together. You know that, right?

  Peyton : Oh, my god. What was I thinking? Who can think? You know what? You're gonna have to do it eventually. You'll end up doing it, right?

  Elena : It means *nothing*.

  Peyton : No... You'll make *us* mean nothing.

• Elena : Sometimes I think I just got married to rebel against my parents. My father's Indian. He's very old school. You know, stern but quiet hand. My mother's from Spain. She's very... Catholic.

  Peyton : Now that's a lethal combination.

  Elena : It is! It really is.

• Elena : I don't know. Maybe some of us are not meant to have a soulmate like Tyler thinks.

  Peyton : Well... I don't know about soulmates, but... Y'know, with Margaret... after that?

  [faux southern accent] 

  Peyton : Frankly my dear, I don't care if I never see another lesbian for as long as I live... I'm not kidding.

• Elena : I never even kissed a girl. With my upbringing, that never really occurred to me. I guess I'm just a square.

  Peyton : Or maybe you're just straight.

• Peyton : [after describing her passionate night with Elena]  It is a good thing she is not a controlled substance.

  Wave : Yeah. She's far more dangerous. What you are doing is the very definition of insanity. You slept with a gorgeous straight housewife, who's never had sex with a woman before. And she thinks she's died and gone to heaven. Now what?

  Peyton : What happened to you telling me to do things that make me feel good?

  Wave : Okay, I am trying to put my cynicism on one side.

  Peyton : Good, 'cause I'd just like to stay in my happy place for a second more, if you don't mind.

  Wave : Happy place? Yeah, you two walk off into the sunset, no dead bodies strewn behind...

  Peyton : Are you done now?

  Wave : Probably.

  Peyton : That's great. Now I have this big fat foreclosure sign on my happy place.

• Peyton : [writing]  I miss you. Honestly, I missed you before our last kiss was finished. I just want you to know that I am with you. Elena, your beauty radiates from your soul. I finally understand the cliched term 'take one's breath away'. You take my breath away. When you kiss me... Oh, god... When you kiss me, Elena... I remember the night you showed up and made love to me with no words. Elena, I have never let anyone have me, let anyone take me, ravage me, like I have let you. You have given me such a gift, the other side of myself. You've made me whole.

• Wave : Remember that chick I was seeing on Friday? She was dating Erin *and* my ex.

  Peyton : I don't even want to hear it. You said your eyes were wide open.

  Wave : Yeah, well. I'm legally blind in my left eye, so thank you very much for your sensitivity.

• Wave : I think it's getting a little bit out of control, no? The unbuttoning of the shirt... What about all the eye blazing that goes on between you? I mean, come on. Who does that?

  Peyton : Eye blazing? Seriously?

  Wave : You're the writer, call it what you want.

• Wave : You've got to grow some mini cajones, stat. You've gotta tell her what's going on.

  Peyton : No... I can't.

  Wave : Peyton, she's straight. And married. To a pastor! Not to mention she's culturally challenged. I mean, it's kind of twisted how much you've got going against you.

• Peyton : [to Elena]  Maybe we should pull back a little, you know? Just until things settle down. You don't have to feel so guilty, and I can get my head screwed back on.

• Peyton : You don't get it. I am... too far in.

  Elena : I understand that you're scared... and all the reasons you don't trust. But don't you know by now, Peyton, this is what I want?

• Peyton : At least with Margaret, we were compatible.

  Wave : [laughs]  Lombard, I've known you since high school, and you were with her because she was safe. There was about as much passion between you and Devil Woman as a bloody rice cracker. I mean, they're very nice. But I don't want one in my vagina, and I'm absolutely sure that you don't either.