Other Titles • Better Than Chocolate • Maggie & Lila (1998) • Meilleur que le chocolat (1999)
Quotes from Better Than Chocolate (1999)
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Paul: Are you sure you like boys? Carla: Soft centers, hard centers. I like ALL the chocolates in the box.
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Lila: So, you're working in a discount bookstore, huh? Maggie: I am? Oh! "Ten Percent."
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Tony: That's funny... Get out! Kim: I am out.
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Maggie: You're not bi-sexual, Carla - you're omni-sexual! You're like that tornado in the Wizard of Oz, sweeping up everything in your path.
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Mr. L.B. Marcus: The books have been classified as obscene and will not be allowed through the border. Now, if I can just get you to sign here. Frances: Little Red Riding Hood is obscene? Mr. Marcus: Well, we, we thought it was something else.
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Safe sex advocate: I'm off Thursday on the "Love that latex" Safe sex tour. I'm giving safe sex demonstrations from Tuktoyaktuk to Yellowknife.
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Carla: Customs held up another order of books at the border. They're claiming the books are pornographic... hello? Which they aren't. Well, maybe "Butches in Chains" is, but so what?
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Judy: I'm Jeremy. Lila: You're a man? Judy: No, no, no, no, no, not really. Not ever. I was born into a man's body but I've always been a woman and well, after the final surgery... Lila: I think I need a little drink.
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Lila: I read a study and after the age of forty a woman's chances of having sex are diminished by eighty percent. SO, after fifty, God help you. And since I probably won't be having sex again, chocolate is the only pleasure left for me.
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Carla: Ouch, it's the plight of the bisexual. Gay girls won't play with you.
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Lila: [asking about Maggie] What is going on with her these days? Judy: You'd have to ask her that, Lila. Lila: So, there is something going on? Judy: Oh, well, she's nineteen. There's always something going on when you're nineteen.
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Carla: Boys like toys too, you know. Paul: This is for boys? Carla: Um-hmmmmmm. Paul: What is it? Carla: A butt plug. [Paul abruptly drops it] Carla: It's okay honey, I bleach it.
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Frances: Seriously, Mr. Marcus, the Supreme Court has declared that anal sex is to gay male sex what Mozart is to classical music. Mr. Marcus: Miss Turner, we are not here to discuss classical music. I myself am a huge Mozart fan, but... Frances: Look, the fucking Supreme Court has declared this natural. It is not obscene. Mr. Marcus: In case you haven't noticed this is not the Supreme Court. We're here in Customs and I have a job to do. Frances: We're just following orders, are we? Asshole. Mr. Marcus: From your perspective, that must be a compliment of monumental proportions.
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[Frances is about to attack the homophobic customs official; Bernice, a security guard, steps in] Bernice: Do we have a problem in here? Frances: Bernice? Oh my god, I haven't seen you since the women's music festival! [Bernice hustles Frances and Maggie out the door]
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Frances: Of course it's obscene! That's the point!
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[Kim and Maggie have just stopped a woman from beating up Judy] Kim: Say you're sorry! Woman in Washroom: I'm sorry! Judy: ..."I"m sorry, *ma"am*." Woman in Washroom: I'm... sorry... ma'am. Judy: Thank you.
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[Maggie and Tony are washing the sidewalk in front of 10% Books] Religious Zealot: Jesus loves you! Maggie: Oh, thank you! [to Tony] Maggie: So, do you think we've gotten "Die, dyke, die" off the sidewalk?
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Lila: Kim, dear, do you have a boyfriend? Kim: [politely] No, I don't. [a meaningful look into Meggie's direction] Kim: Funny, that. [Meggie starts to giggle]
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