Please, please, please, let me get what I want

It's these cards and the movies and the pop songs, they're to blame for all lies and the heartache, everything. People buy cards 'cause they can't say how they feel, or they're afraid to. We provide the service that lets them off the hook.People should be able to say how they feel - how they really feel - not, you know, some words that some strangers put in their mouths. Tom, 500 Days of Summer

"Life isn't like in the movies. Life... is much harder."

Alfredo: Living here day by day, you think it's the center of the world. You believe nothing will ever change. Then you leave: a year, two years. When you come back, everything's changed. The thread's broken. What you came to find isn't there. What was yours is gone. You have to go away for a long time... many years... before you can come back and find your people. The land where you were born. But now, no. It's not possible. Right now you're blinder than I am.