The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water

[last lines]
Giles: If I told you about her, what would I say? That they lived happily ever after? I believe they did. That they were in love? That they remained in love? I'm sure that's true. But when I think of her - of Elisa - the only thing that comes to mind is a poem, whispered by someone in love, hundreds of years ago: "Unable to perceive the shape of You, I find You

all around me. Your presence fills my eyes with Your love, It humbles my heart, For You are everywhere."

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The Shape of Water

Giles: [interpreting Elisa] When he looks at me, the way he looks at me... He does not know, what I lack... Or - how - I am incomplete. He sees me, for what I - am, as I am. He's happy - to see me. Every time. Every day. Now, I can either save him... or let him die.

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The Shape of Water

Strickland: [to Elisa] What'd you say to me?
Elisa: [in sign language] F - U - C - K
Strickland: What is she saying?
Elisa: Y - O - U
Zelda: Uh, I, I didn't catch it.
Strickland: [kicks the desk; pointing at Elisa] WHAT IS SHE SAYING?

Zelda: She, she is sayin' "Thank you"!

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The Shape of Water

[first lines]
Giles: If I spoke about it - if I did - what would I tell you? I wonder. Would I tell you about the time? It happened a long time ago, it seems. In the last days of a fair prince's reign. Or would I tell you about the place? A small city near the coast, but far from everything else. Or, I don't know... Would I tell you about her? The princess without voice. Or

perhaps I would just warn you, about the truth of these facts. And the tale of love and loss. And the monster, who tried to destroy it all.

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The Shape of Water

Giles: Oh! God, to be young and beautiful. If I could go back
[Elisa nods]
Giles: to when I was 18 - I didn't know anything about anything - I'd give myself a bit of advice.
Elisa: [in sign language] What would you say?
Giles: I would say: Take better care of your teeth and fuck a lot more.

[Elisa smiles and gently nudges him]
Giles: Oh no, no, that's very good advice.

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The Shape of Water

Giles: We can do nothing! I'm sorry! But this, this, this is just - Oh God, it's not even human. God!
[Elisa follows Giles into the hallway and hits the wall to get his attention]
Giles: What?
Elisa: [in sign language] If we / do nothing / neither are we.

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The Shape of Water

Zelda: Man is as silent as the grave. But if farts were flattery? Honey, he'd be Shakespeare.

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The Shape of Water

Zelda: [to Elisa] Oh! Woman, we gon' burn in hell!

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The Shape of Water

Strickland: [Elisa offers him a towel] Oh, no. No, a man washes his hands before or after tending to his needs. It tells you a lot about a man.
[eats a candy]
Strickland: He does it both times - points to a weakness in character.

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The Shape of Water

Zelda: Short people are mean. I never met a short man that stays nice all the way through. No sir. Mean little backstabbers, all of 'em. Maybe it's the air down there. Not enough oxygen or somethin'.

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The Shape of Water

Giles: [to Elisa] I have no one. And you are the only person that I can talk to. Now, whatever this thing is, you need it.
[choking up]
Giles: So, you just tell me what to do.

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The Shape of Water

Giles: Y'know, uh - cornflakes were invented to prevent masturbation. It didn't work.

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The Shape of Water

Giles: He's a wild creature. We can't ask him to be anything else.

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The Shape of Water

Hoffstetler: I'm not competitive, I don't want an intricate, beautiful thing destroyed!

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The Shape of Water

Zelda: Elisa honey, make a sound on the phone if you can hear.
[Elisa taps on the receiver]
Zelda: OK, good. He's comin' for you. You gotta go now and you gotta take that thing with ya.

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The Shape of Water

Zelda: Some of the best minds in the country peein' all over the floor in this here facility.

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The Shape of Water

[from trailer]
Strickland: The natives in the Amazon worshiped it. Like a god. We need to take it apart, learn how it works.

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The Shape of Water

Zelda: [to Elisa] Yeah. That's good. Keep that up. Lookin' like you don't know anything.

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The Shape of Water

Giles: [to the Amphibian Man sitting in the bathtub] Have you always been alone?
[pause]
Giles: Did you ever have someone? Do you know what happened to you, do you? Because I don't. I don't know what happened to me.
[laughs]
Giles: I don't know! I look in the mirror and the only thing I recognize, are these eyes. In

this old man's face. You know sometimes I think I was either born too early or too late for my life. Maybe we're both just relics.

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The Shape of Water

Strickland: You may think, "That thing looks human." Stands on two legs, right? But - we're created in the Lord's image. You don't think that's what the Lord looks like, do you?