Paradise (I) (2013)

Julianne Hough: Lamb Mannerheim

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Quotes 

• William : If I'm so toothless, then how come you're afraid to come upstairs with me?

  Lamb Mannerheim : Afraid? You've gotta be kidding me, I just spent my entire life being trained to follow a man with long hair and a beard. That would just be down right predictable.

• Lamb Mannerheim : I realized we *do* have something in common.

  Loray : We do, huh?

  Lamb Mannerheim : Yeah. You don't have any black friends, either.

• Loray : Maybe it's just a Tuesday night, and I'm trying to be your magical a negro?

  Lamb Mannerheim : Um, my what?

  William : No! No!

  Loray : Magical negro. Magical negro is a narrative convention in which a black person uses her special black wisdom to help a white person in need.

• Lamb Mannerheim : He was a good pilot, but...

  Amber : Did he get as messed up as you? All the shit on your neck?

  Lamb Mannerheim : He lucked out.

  Amber : Not a scratch, huh?

  Lamb Mannerheim : No, he died.

• [first lines] 

  Lamb Mannerheim : This is me, before the accident.

  [standing in the ocean in a sundress] 

  Lamb Mannerheim : And here's me after I was barbecued in jet fuel.

  [sitting on the beach completely covered] 

  Lamb Mannerheim : The old-me was content, virtuous; believed in everything.

  Lamb Mannerheim : [sundress]  Marshmallow.

  Lamb Mannerheim : What an idiot.

• Lamb Mannerheim : I'm not a show girl.

  Loray : Nobody cares what you are, hon.

  Lamb Mannerheim : I care very much. I care about the message that I send out into the world. Besides, I could never do that anyway, people would stare. My skin.

  Loray : Yeah, well I got a skin condition too. It's called black. "People would stare."

• Lamb Mannerheim : This, this is so much worse than home.

  Amber : [laughs]  Nothing's worse than home. Trust me, I'm scared for life.

• [last lines] 

  Lamb Mannerheim : Some people say this whole world is broken. I say it's paradise.

• Lamb Mannerheim : My mom calls glitter Lucifer Dust.