Quid Pro Quo (I) (2008)

Nick Stahl: Isaac Knott

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Quotes 

• Isaac : If you're wondering, yes, I can have sex. I just can't catch a cab.

• [first lines] 

  Isaac : I don't remember *any* of what I'm about to tell you. I only know what the police and coroner's report said. But on the morning of April 5th, 1989, a high-speed car crash occurred, on a rural highway in upstate New York. There were 2 fatalities: my mother died on impact, my father died of hemorrhaging from a torn pulmonary vein and massive internal injuries. I'm listed as a male survivor, approximately 8 years of age. We were going down a road. Nobody had said much of anything yet. The road was supposed to have been longer...

• Isaac : I had always gotten stares. You know, the ones people give you, or avoid giving you. But once in a while, wheeling in and out of the curve of people, I'd catch someone looking at me. And I'd see something else in their eyes - jealousy. They were jealous of me, jealous that I got to *sit down* and they didn't. Does that sound crazy to you?

• Isaac : Welcome to hell. I'll introduce you to the staff.

• Fiona : People who get off on braces and wheel chairs are called devotés. They're a joke, they're the bottom rung. Above them are the pretenders. They wear the braces, they push the wheels, but they don't *belong* to their chairs. Still, if they want to fantasize, that's their choice. Then there are the wannabes. You saw how crazy they are.

  Isaac : What makes you different than a wannabe or a pretender?

  Fiona : I'm a unique case. I don't want to be paralyzed.

  Isaac : You don't?

  Fiona : I am already paralyzed. I'm just trapped in a walking person's body...

• Isaac : Should I call 911? But then what would I say, "come quickly I'm being healed"?

• Isaac : Did you ever sneeze and feel like it was a second chance?

• Fiona : [about his shoes]  What does it feel like when you take them off.

  Isaac : Like you've just taken a deep breath, but before you can exhale somebody steals it away.