Lilly vs John Doe

Lilly Rush: It finally stopped. The rain.

John Harding: Did it?

Lilly Rush: You read about me in the papers. You know I was almost shot.

John Harding: Yes.

Lilly Rush: Almost died.

John Harding: But you didn't. You killed him first.

Lilly Rush: That's why I hate the rain. The quiet it brings.

John Harding: Why?

Lilly Rush: Because that's what it was like inside my head right before I pulled the trigger.

John Harding: They say you see the moments of your life right before you die.

Lilly Rush: No. Just one moment.

John Harding: Like Steve did. Justin.

Lilly Rush: And, after, I think you're ready to say good-bye. Why are you here, John?

John Harding: I already told you.

Lilly Rush: In this room, people tell me all sorts of things. You can, too. And I'll listen and not leave you, like everyone else has left you. To die alone.

John Harding: Like those boys died?

Lilly Rush: How you must hate them. Steve, Justin. So young. Their lives just starting.

John Harding: They get into cars with strangers and believe they'll live forever.

Lilly Rush: You think that's a crime?

John Harding: It is because they won't. They should know that and not be disappointed later.

Lilly Rush: Like you once were.

John Harding: I've been dying for 26 years. I never believed.

Lilly Rush: Didn't you? And I'd give anything to never have walked into that attic. Never looked down the barrel of his gun. So I could still believe that I'd live forever. Remember?

John Harding: No.

Lilly Rush: It's the most beautiful thing we'll ever do. Believing that.

John Harding: I don't remember.

Lilly Rush: I do. Wintertime... alone on the street... learning to ride my bike. It's almost dark. I remember the wind in my face, and closing my eyes, and suddenly I'm flying. You don't hate them because they believe they'll live forever. You hate them because we once did, too. Remember?

John Harding: Swimming in the river... my friends... dared me to jump from the bridge. It was a hundred foot fall.

Lilly Rush: Did you? Did you jump?

John Harding: I was 17. Immortal.

(...)

Lilly Rush: You believed when you jumped. So did Steve. And Justin.

John Harding: If only for a moment.

Lilly Rush: You could have died jumping off that bridge.

John Harding: But I lived.

Lilly Rush: Let him live, too.