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Tess & Ginger [2005]

[After Tess rescues Ginger from a creep at a bar]
Ginger: What a night. I'm moving to a new place and my car blows up and I'm running for help and I get jumped -- not that I even know anybody to call for help.
Tess: Relax. Bob's gone. I can take you anywhere you want to go. Got a name?
Ginger: Ginger.
Tess: Tess. Now you know somebody. Things are looking up.

Ginger: You're a lifesaver.
Tess: That's what I keep on telling everybody.

Ginger: So, is this what you do for excitement? Try to rescue people from drunks in parking lots?
Tess: If necessary. Listen, stick with me, I'll show you all the excitement you can handle.

Ginger: I've never been in a limo before.
Tess: Are you saying that we don't deserve the best that life has to offer?
Ginger: I've never seen what life has to offer. You are so lucky to live like this.
Tess: Well, "luck" isn't exactly the word for it. Money's great, but it has its price.

Ginger: You don't get along with your family?
Tess: They don't even know I exist.
Ginger: I'm sure you're exaggerating.
Tess: Well, I got this mom and she's like a nun, and this sister who would be really cool to hang out with if she wasn't bawling her eyes out all of the time. And then there's Jessica.
Ginger: Who's Jessica?
Tess: She's an absolute priss. She's hung up on this Latin Romeo, and when she's around him, she wilts like a wet rag. It is disgusting.

Tess: (to Ginger) There's finishing first and there's losing, and I don't lose.

Tess: Well, I just have to sneak around for just a little while longer. I'm keeping vampire hours as it is just to get out of the house. It won't be like this for long.
Ginger: Well, promise me you'll call.
Tess: Count on it. This is the most fun I've had in a while. It'd be nice to have a partner to shake things up with.

[Ginger is interested in a new guy]
Tess: Hmm, must be really hot.
Ginger: Oh, you have no idea. But he's taken.
Tess: Well, when has that ever stopped us before?

Ginger: All right, so what do I do about Duke?
Tess: You seduce him away from Adriana.
Ginger: Yeah, but I like Adriana. She's nice.
Tess: All is fair in love and lust, sweetie pie. You want the boy, you go get the boy.
Ginger: Well, that's if he wants it.
Tess: Oh, come on, I haven't met a guy who didn't. Every boy has his weak spot.

Ginger: (about Jessica) Why do you hate her so much?
Tess: She exists, Ginger.

Ginger: I have listened to you bitch and moan about Jessica and Antonio for months now. Then the guy walks in and he calls you Jessica? I mean, if anybody should feel screwed with, it's me!
Tess: Oh, Ginger. Come on, wake up. You're pretty, but you sure are dense. Don't you get it? Jessica and Tess are the same person. I'm Jessica.

[Ginger comes to visit Jessica/Tess at St. Anne's]
Jessica: I know this all must be really confusing.
Ginger: Yeah. I mean, how would you feel if your only friend in town gets checked into a mental hospital and has you come get her out? It says a whole lot about my life that I even showed up.

Jessica: I'm nothing at all like Tess.
Ginger: Look, she's really not a bad person, you know. She helped me out of a jam once, stood up to a guy twice her size. I mean, she gets a little wild, but that's what makes her fun.
Jessica: Well, it might be fun for you, but she's trying to destroy me.
Ginger: Ok. It sounds to me like you would be happy to just return the favor.

Jessica: I was hoping, Ginger, that now that you and I have met that you would consider me a friend in the same way that you are with Tess.
Ginger: No. No, I'm sorry, I can't do that. You're not my friend, Jessica, Tess is, and you want to get rid of her.

Ginger: Ok, this is crazy. I mean, I feel like I'm looking at Tess, but I'm talking to a pod person.
Jessica: I'm sorry.
Ginger: Look, I don't know you, Jessica, but I can tell you're off your rocker, and you're in the right place. So if Tess comes out for good, tell her to call me.

[Tess is amused that Jessica has had herself committed to St. Anne's]
Tess: It was nice of you to cut yourself off from your friends and family like this. Funny how it was my friend Ginger who cared enough to actually do something. And I loved the way you she threw your sweet virgin act back in your face. See? People just like me better. Get used to it.

[Tess sees the headline on the day's paper, saying that Ginger has been killed]
Tess: What the hell is this? Is this some kind of joke?
Natalie: What in the hell are you talking about?
Tess: What, did you get your rich friends at the paper to make this up?
Natalie: Make what up?
Tess: Here. This story. The trial story -- it says that Ginger Foley is dead!
Natalie: Did you know her?
Tess: No, I didn't "know" her. She was my best friend. My best friend! My only friend.

Tess: (about Ginger) She liked -- she liked to laugh. You know, she wasn't uptight like everybody else around here. She was on my side.
Natalie: Look, I'm really sorry that you had to find out like this.
Tess: I can't believe this. You know, this family has me locked up in some bedroom, my best friend gets killed, and I have to read about it in a newspaper weeks afterwards?

[Natalie apologizes to Tess for giving her the news about Ginger]
Natalie: Look, I -- I'm sorry. I wouldn't have brought you the paper if I had known.
Tess: Known what? That I care about somebody other than myself?