Higher Ground (2000)
A.J. Cook: Shelby Merrick
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Quotes
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Daisy Lipenowski : You're wearing a mask.
Shelby Merrick : That's a good one, coming from Goth girl.
Daisy Lipenowski : My mask was an honest one for all the world to see. Yours is invisible.
Shelby Merrick : You are so way creepy.
Daisy Lipenowski : You're hiding something. And it's taking your energy, using it up; there's less and less left. Soon there'll be none.
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Scott Barringer : I always thought that if anyone ever found out about my step mom, about what happened, I thought if I ever told anyone, I'd never be able to look at them again.
Shelby Merrick : You can look at me, can't you?
Scott Barringer : You're beautiful.
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Shelby Merrick : We're not girls, man. We're profoundly dysfunctional adolescents.
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Shelby Merrick : I'm a human being, so speak to me like one!
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Shelby Merrick : There're only two words I ever want to hear from you, "I'm sorry."
Scott Barringer : I don't know why you're...
Shelby Merrick : Wrong words.
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Shelby Merrick : I'll have coffee.
Sophie Becker : De-caf.
Shelby Merrick : Then I'll have a coke.
Sophie Becker : Diet. No caffeine.
Shelby Merrick : What was I thinking? I'll just have water. Wouldn't want to get crazed on sugar and caffeine.
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Shelby Merrick : Why'd you come back?
Scott Barringer : Because... 'cause I love you.
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Scott Barringer : You're like a stalker or something.
Shelby Merrick : I only stalk the very best.
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Ezra Friedkin : I made a film for Junior High Social Studies. It was called Smoke Gets in My Eyes, celebrated my youth lost to the drug culture.
Daisy Lipenowski : Mine was called The Upside of Death. I thought it was a comedy.
Shelby Merrick : You would.
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[Daisy is chopping wood]
Shelby Merrick : Daisy, with an axe?
Juliette Waybourne : Never know when you can go chop-chop on us.
Katherine Ann 'Kat' Cabot : Better safe than sorry.
Daisy Lipenowski : I'm touched.
[Takes a badly aimed swing]
Daisy Lipenowski : Didn't need that toe anyway.
Shelby Merrick : Well, at least you still got eleven toes left.
Daisy Lipenowski : Oh, you're just jealous.
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Shelby Merrick : I don't know what you have, Freakin', but I bet it's hard to pronounce.
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[After telling Shelby about his step mom]
Scott Barringer : You're not gonna tell, are you?
Shelby Merrick : No, I won't tell.
Scott Barringer : Thanks.
Shelby Merrick : Yeah, well, we'll see what you say when you get my bill.
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Shelby Merrick : What are you doing in here?
Daisy Lipenowski : Hiding.
Shelby Merrick : From what?
Daisy Lipenowski : Life. What are you doing in here?
Shelby Merrick : Hiding.
Daisy Lipenowski : From what?
Shelby Merrick : Life... By the way, you look really stupid.
Daisy Lipenowski : Good. I look the way I feel.
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Shelby Merrick : How's the tour going, Scott? Have you shown him Dead Man's Jump or should I?
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Shelby Merrick : Two words: 'get a grip.' Okay, make that three.
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Ezra Friedkin : You're drooling.
Shelby Merrick : And you could be bleeding.
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Shelby Merrick : Hey... you missed out on a really good time.
Scott Barringer : Is that why Ezra looks so happy? He took my place?
Shelby Merrick : You don't know anything.