The Way We Were

[to Katie]

Hubbell Gardner:
You hold on and I don't know how. And I wish I did. Maybe you were born committed... I can't get negative enough. I can't get angry enough. And I can't get positive enough.

Hubbell Gardner:
When you love someone, from Roosevelt to me, you go deaf, dumb and blind.

[discussing advocacy for political causes]

Hubbell Gardner:
I don't see how you can do it.

Katie Morosky Gardner:
And I don't see how you can't

Hubbell Gardner:
The trouble with some people is they work too hard.

Katie Morosky Gardner:
Your girl is lovely, Hubbell.

Hubbell Gardner:
What kind of pie?

Katie Morosky Gardner:
You'll never find anyone as good for you as I am, to believe in you as much as I do or love you as much!

Hubbell Gardner:
I know that.

Katie Morosky Gardner:
Well then, why?

Katie Morosky Gardner:
I don't have the right style for you do I?

Hubbell Gardner:
No you don't have the right style.

Katie Morosky Gardner:
I'll change.

Hubbell Gardner:
No, don't change. You're your own girl, you have your own style.

Katie Morosky Gardner:
But then I won't have you. Why can't I have you?

Hubbell Gardner:
Because you push too hard, every damn minute. There's no time to ever relax and enjoy living. Every things too serious to be so serious.

Katie Morosky Gardner:
If I push too hard it's because I want things to be better, I want us to be better, I want you to be better. Sure I make waves you have I mean you have to. And I'll keep making them till your everything you should be and will be. You'll never find anyone as good for you as I am, to believe in you as much as I do or to love you as much.

Hubbell Gardner:
I know that.

Katie Morosky Gardner:
Well then why?

Hubbell Gardner:
Do you think if I come back its going to be okay by magic? What's going to change? What's going to be different? We'll both be wrong, we'll both lose.

Katie Morosky Gardner:
Couldn't we both win?

Katie Morosky Gardner:
Wouldn't it be lovely if we were old? We'd have survived all this. Everything thing would be easy and uncomplicated; the way it was when we were young.

Hubbell Gardner:
Katie, it was never uncomplicated.

Hubbell Gardner:
A... two cheese burgers and four cokes.

Katie Morosky Gardner:
Onion?

Hubbell Gardner:
Yeah, in the cokes.

Hubbell Gardner:
[when Katie doesn't want to go to a party with Hubbell's friends] Maybe something terrible will happen - maybe you'll have a good time.

Hubbell Gardner:
People are more important than their principles.

Katie Morosky Gardner:
People ARE their principles.

Katie Morosky Gardner:
Happy Rosh Hashana.

Hubbell Gardner:
You think you're easy? Compared to what, the Hundred Years' War?

Hubbell Gardner:
You never give up, do you?

Katie Morosky Gardner:
Only when I'm absolutely forced to. But I'm a very good loser...

Hubbell Gardner:
Better than I am.

Katie Morosky Gardner:
Well, I've had... more practice.

Katie Morosky Gardner:
Your girl is lovely, Hubbell. Why don't you bring her for a drink when you come?

Hubbell Gardner:
I can't come, Katie. I can't...

Katie Morosky Gardner:
I know...

Katie Morosky Gardner:
Hubbell, it's Katie. You did know it was Katie.

Hubbell Gardner:
Are you really so sure of everything you're so sure of?

Hubbell Gardner:
[to Katie] Are you really so sure of everything you're so sure of?

Hubble:
Katie you want too much

Katie/ Oh but look what I’ve got!

Things came easy for him. (referring to Hubbel)