Miller's Girl (2024)

Jenna Ortega: Cairo Sweet

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• Jonathan Miller : Don't you get scared, walking through those woods?

  Cairo Sweet : I'm the scariest thing in there.

• Cairo Sweet : Heartbreak is a slow motion car crash set to Mozart.

• Cairo Sweet : They tell us not to look into the sun... 'the fuck do they know.

• Cairo Sweet : Literature is my solace in the solitude. And writing is my only escape, because, you see, I've never left the edges of this town. It's positively gothic, really. Lonely girl longs to be meaningful. Lonely girl longs to be loved. Books make longing to seem romantic, but it's awful. It's greedy, and I wear longing like a fucking veil.

• Cairo Sweet : No excuses made for your choices, for they are yours alone.

• Jonathan Miller : Henry Miller is public enemy number one with the censors. I'm not even approved to teach him.

  Cairo Sweet : So?

  Jonathan Miller : So, it would be a controversial choice.

  Cairo Sweet : If it's not controversial, it's not interesting.

• Cairo Sweet : How can a kiss make every cliche suddenly consequential?

• Cairo Sweet : A kiss ... a muse. It is a question, an unlocked door. It is ... elation ... and anguish.