Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

[Clementine and Joel have broken into an empty house on the Montauk beach]
Joel: I think we should go.
Clementine: No, it's our house! Just for tonight...
[she looks at an envelope on the counter]
Clementine: ...we are David and Ruth Laskin. Which one do you want to be? I prefer to be Ruth, but I'm flexible.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Clementine: Look man, I'm telling you right off the bat I'm high maintenance. So I'm not gonna tip-toe around your marriage or whatever it is ya got goin' on there. If you wanna be with me, you're with me.
Joel: Okay.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Clementine: You married?
Joel: No.
Clementine: Let's move into this neighborhood!
Joel: I do sorta live with someone though.
Clementine: Male or female?
Joel: What? Female... female...
Clementine: At least I'm not barking up the wrong

tree!

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Clementine: I apply my personality in a paste.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Joel: I love being bathed in the sink - such a feeling of security.
Clementine: I've never seen you happier, baby Joel.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Hollis: Don't be a monster, Howard. Tell the poor girl. You can have him, sweetie. You did.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

[Clementine is trying to comfort baby Joel by showing him her crotch]
Clementine: My crotch is still here, just as you remembered it.
Joel: Yuck!

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

[Hammering noises in the background]
Rob: Fuck!
Carrie: Rob, give it a rest.
Rob: Carrie, I am making a birdhouse.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Clementine: What are you, NUTS?
Joel: It's been suggested.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Clementine: Ouch. Ow my ass.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Clementine: You're really nice... God, I have to stop saying that!

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Patrick: Mary hates me. I've never been popular with the ladies.
Stan: Maybe if you stopped stealing their panties.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Joel Barish: Pages ripped out. Don't remember doing that. It appears this is my first entry in two years.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Clementine: I'm gonna marry you... I know it!
Joel: Ummm... okay...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Mary: I wanted to understand as much as I could about the procedure as possible... I think it's important for my job to understand the inner workings of the work that we do, well not that I do, but the work that is done by people where I also work, the work of my colleagues.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

[looking at the letter from Lacuna, Inc]
Joel: What is it?
Rob: I don't know, it's a place that does a thing...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Frank: McRomance. Want some fries with that shake?

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Joel: I don't see anything I don't like about you.
Clementine: But you will! But you will, and I'll get bored with you and feel trapped, because that's what happens with me.
Joel: Okay.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

[Clementine is leading Joel out onto the frozen Charles River]
Joel: I don't know. What if it breaks?
Clementine: What if? Do you really care right now?

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

[Mary is stoned, and Joel has just gone off the map]
Mary: He could wake up all half-baked and, gooey and, and half-baked... mmm, that sounds sooo good. I'm hungry.