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Higher Ground (2000)

A.J. Cook: Shelby Merrick

Higher Ground

A.J. Cook credited as playing...

Shelby Merrick

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  • Daisy Lipenowski: You're wearing a mask.
  • Shelby Merrick: That's a good one, coming from Goth girl.
  • Daisy Lipenowski: My mask was an honest one for all the world to see. Yours is invisible.
  • Shelby Merrick: You are so way creepy.
  • Daisy Lipenowski: You're hiding something. And it's taking your energy, using it up; there's less and less left. Soon there'll be none.
  • Scott Barringer: I always thought that if anyone ever found out about my step mom, about what happened, I thought if I ever told anyone, I'd never be able to look at them again.
  • Shelby Merrick: You can look at me, can't you?
  • Scott Barringer: You're beautiful.
  • Shelby Merrick: We're not girls, man. We're profoundly dysfunctional adolescents.
  • Shelby Merrick: I don't know what you have, Freakin', but I bet it's hard to pronounce.
  • Shelby Merrick: I'm a human being, so speak to me like one!
  • Shelby Merrick: There're only two words I ever want to hear from you, "I'm sorry."
  • Scott Barringer: I don't know why you're...
  • Shelby Merrick: Wrong words.
  • Shelby Merrick: I'll have coffee.
  • Sophie Becker: De-caf.
  • Shelby Merrick: Then I'll have a coke.
  • Sophie Becker: Diet. No caffeine.
  • Shelby Merrick: What was I thinking? I'll just have water. Wouldn't want to get crazed on sugar and caffeine.
  • Scott Barringer: You're like a stalker or something.
  • Shelby Merrick: I only stalk the very best.
  • Ezra Friedkin: I made a film for Junior High Social Studies. It was called Smoke Gets in My Eyes, celebrated my youth lost to the drug culture.
  • Daisy Lipenowski: Mine was called The Upside of Death. I thought it was a comedy.
  • Shelby Merrick: You would.
  • [Daisy is chopping wood]
  • Shelby Merrick: Daisy, with an axe?
  • Juliette Waybourne: Never know when you can go chop-chop on us.
  • Katherine Ann 'Kat' Cabot: Better safe than sorry.
  • Daisy Lipenowski: I'm touched.
  • [Takes a badly aimed swing]
  • Daisy Lipenowski: Didn't need that toe anyway.
  • Shelby Merrick: Well, at least you still got eleven toes left.
  • Daisy Lipenowski: Oh, you're just jealous.
  • [After telling Shelby about his step mom]
  • Scott Barringer: You're not gonna tell, are you?
  • Shelby Merrick: No, I won't tell.
  • Scott Barringer: Thanks.
  • Shelby Merrick: Yeah, well, we'll see what you say when you get my bill.
  • Shelby Merrick: Why'd you come back?
  • Scott Barringer: Because... 'cause I love you.
  • Shelby Merrick: What are you doing in here?
  • Daisy Lipenowski: Hiding.
  • Shelby Merrick: From what?
  • Daisy Lipenowski: Life. What are you doing in here?
  • Shelby Merrick: Hiding.
  • Daisy Lipenowski: From what?
  • Shelby Merrick: Life... By the way, you look really stupid.
  • Daisy Lipenowski: Good. I look the way I feel.
  • Shelby Merrick: How's the tour going, Scott? Have you shown him Dead Man's Jump or should I?
  • Shelby Merrick: Two words: 'get a grip.' Okay, make that three.
  • Ezra Friedkin: You're drooling.
  • Shelby Merrick: And you could be bleeding.
  • Shelby Merrick: Hey... you missed out on a really good time.
  • Scott Barringer: Is that why Ezra looks so happy? He took my place?
  • Shelby Merrick: You don't know anything.

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