Secretary * Quotes

"In one way or another, I've always suffered. I didn't know why, exactly. But I do know that I'm not so scared of suffering now. I feel more than I've ever felt, and I've found someone to feel with, to play with, to love, in a way that feels right for me."

Mr. Grey: "I like you, Lee, but I don't think I'm going to offer you the job."
Lee: "Why?"
Mr. Grey: "It's your behavior."
Lee: "What about my behavior?"
Mr. Grey: "It's very bad."

Mr. Grey: "We can't do this 24 hours a day, seven days a week."
Lee: "Why not?"

Mr. Grey: "Why do you cut yourself, Lee?"
Lee: "I don't know."
Mr. Grey: "Is it that sometimes the pain inside has to come to the surface and when you see evidence of the pain inside, you finally know you're really here? Then, when you watch the wound heal, it's comforting, isn't it?"
Lee: "I... that's a way to put it..."

"You know, Lee. There's a long history of this in Catholicism. The monks used to wear thorns on their temples. And the nuns, they wore them sewn inside their clothing. You are part of a great tradition."

"Who's to say that love needs to be soft and gentle?"

Peter: "Are you happy to be home? I mean, are you happy to be home?"
Lee: "I don't know."
Peter: "I know what you mean."