{"id":84979,"date":"2026-08-05T15:22:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T19:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/?page_id=84979"},"modified":"2026-10-04T09:25:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T13:25:42","slug":"failure-to-launch-quotes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/quotes\/failure-to-launch-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Failure to Launch > Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\tPaula<\/b>: I’m Paula.
\nTripp<\/b>: I’m Tripp.
\nPaula<\/b>: You know, usually I don’t sleep with someone on the first date.
\nTripp<\/b>: I don’t think this counts as a first date.
\nPaula<\/b>: It would be a date if you asked me to have a drink tonight.
\nTripp<\/b>: Mmm. You wanna have a drink tonight?
\nPaula<\/b>: Mmm. Can’t. How about lunch tomorrow?
\nTripp<\/b>: Sure. Wait. Tomorrow’s Saturday.
\nPaula<\/b>: Sometimes I eat on Saturday.\n
\nTripp<\/b>: Do you have real feelings?
\nPaula<\/b>: Of course I have real feelings!
\nTripp<\/b>: For what?
\nPaula<\/b>: For you! And believe me, I did not want that because I had a good life before you. Well, not good… but… it was okay. Well, it… it was empty, actually, but at least I was blissfully unaware of how miserable I was. Whereas now… because of you… I am acutely aware of how completely and totally unhappy I am. Thank you for that.\n
\nKit<\/b>: Shut up, you whore!
\nPaula<\/b>: [sipping champagne] Oh, I’m sorry. Was I sipping too loudly for you?
\nKit<\/b>: No, you’re not sipping too loudly. It’s that goddamn bird outside my goddamn window! What the hell kind of devil-bird chirps at night?\n
\nKit<\/b>: I smell something. D’you smell something?
\nPaula<\/b>: Oh! Oh, Tripp and I had crab today.
\nKit<\/b>: No, that’s not it. I smell… fun.
\nPaula<\/b>: What?
\nKit<\/b>: You are a dirty little fun-haver.\n
\nTripp<\/b>: All right, assuming that pretending to own a yacht was a brilliant, romantic yet ultimately flawed idea, how do you see the rest of the day playing out?
\nPaula<\/b>: I don’t know. I’m so hungry, I can’t think. Seagulls ate my lunch.
\nTripp<\/b>: What if I took you to a restaurant?
\nPaula<\/b>: Are you gonna pretend to own it?
\nTripp<\/b>: No. All the restaurants I own are in Europe.\n
\nKit<\/b>: The tall one’s kinda cute. What’s he do?
\nPaula<\/b>: Oh, he’s some kind of software writer. He works out of his basement, but he makes a lot of money. Oh, you know what? No, that’s the little guy. The tall one just got fired from Kinko’s.
\nKit<\/b>: How will I choose?\n
\nTripp<\/b>: It’s over. She gotta go.
\nAce<\/b>: You’re dumping Paula?
\nDemo<\/b>: What happened?
\nTripp<\/b>: Same thing that always happens. Everything is going along nice and smooth, we’re having a good time, and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, woah!, she gets serious. I hate to say it, boys, but it is time to take the girl home.\n
\n

Paula<\/b>: Nothing like the threat of decapitation to make it a little more interesting.<\/p>\n

\nAce<\/b>: Point is, my friend, you are afraid of love.
\nTripp<\/b>: Bullshit. No, no, no, man. I’m not afraid of love. I love love. Look, I’ve had a lot of girlfriends, right? And sometimes I’m the rebound guy; other times, when I get lucky, I’m the explore-new-areas-of-your-sexuality guy; but, every single time, we have fun. Thank you. I have fun, they have fun; it’s good for me, it’s good for them, and I would argue that it’s damn good for civilization as a whole.\n
\nPaula<\/b>: Al, I never have sex with a client. Besides, I need to keep Tripp motivated, and let’s\u00a0face\u00a0it, after men have sex…
\nSue<\/b>: Is there anything that we need to do?
\nPaula<\/b>: Well, for starters, you could make life a little more difficult for him. You know, uh, more chores, more responsibilities, that kind of thing.
\nSue<\/b>: I just think you should know that Tripp has had some rough breaks.
\nPaula<\/b>: I promise you, when this is over, Tripp is going to be an independent, self-sufficient adult.\n
\nPaula<\/b>: Come on, Tripp. Please, you… you don’t understand.
\nTripp<\/b>: You’re right. Now, hold on. I don’t know what your daily rate is, but that’s everything I’ve got in my wallet. There’s three hundred dollars.
\nPaula<\/b>: Oh, come on, Tripp!
\nTripp<\/b>: It should be good for tonight, especially since we didn’t have sex.
\nPaula<\/b>: Please, Tripp, let me just explain to you.
\nTripp<\/b>: Get the fuck out of my car.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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