Josh quotes from Being Human (US)

Josh

I used to think this curse was what happened to me once a month. And I realize this - this - this is the curse: every day sitting on a bench watching people walk by, eating sandwiches, making plans, being what I used to be.

Josh

[narrating] Quick, what's the world's most rapidly evaporating resource? Oil? Fresh air? Not even close. When's the last time you were truly alone? When you didn't think to yourself "somebody's watching me." A Man can wander for eternity these days before he can find a place to be himself, let go, howl at the moon. How'd we let this happen to us? Why do we insist on looking when every impulse tells us to look away? Maybe its because we all have something to hide- that thing we buried down deep, deep back in the darkness with everything we have. We're secretly hoping to see that the monster inside each of us is inside us all. There it is, look hard enough, you'll see. We will be seen.

Josh

[Changing in the house] Remove anything breakable! Save the TV!

Josh

(voiceover) It doesn't matter if you're dead, undead or somewhere in between. Because it's you humans, that haunt us. And you won't let us go.

Josh

[narrating] This shouldn’t have worked for so many reasons. But for a little while, for this excellent moment in time, it did work, didn’t it? And I felt human, alive. But you were right. A secret breaks things down. It's like bile; dark, corrosive. It's a long story, and most of it's unbelievable. But it's time you knew the truth... now that I have nothing left to lose. When I'm gone, I at least want you to know what I was. I want you to know who you are to me. Nothing else matters. Not anymore.

Josh

[to Sally] So just, don't say anything to Aidan

Josh

But seriously, like don't. Like don't... don't give him special looks, and get all emotional and whatnot. Don't Sally it up.

Josh

It smells like a slaughterhouse up in your room, Aidan! None of those doors are gonna last more than five seconds. The wolf's gonna smell the blood and go nuts and then he's gonna smell Zoe and go even more nuts! He's gonna run through this place like it was made of cardboard!

Josh

[narrating] When you're six years old, a shadowed bedroom can seem as terrifying as the night sky must have seemed to the ancient men. And those things said to go bump in the night, they can feel just as real. I’d imagine that something was hiding in the dark corners of my room; a monster, a ghost. I’d bolt upright in bed, terrified, screaming for my mother. Eventually I grew up, got over it, learned that if I could just hang on, the sun will always rise again. But then everything changed. Then the night, dark, came to mean something very different, that the turn was coming. So the childish night terrors came right back, because now I’m now one of those things that go bump.

Josh

[watching Aiden sitting on the front steps] I never really thought about it before... how hard he must work every single second of his life not to be one of them. I guess I just take it for granted he's as good as he is.

Sally

Do you think he should have saved her?

Josh

I think he did.

Josh

You invited the entire neighborhood into our house? Are you insane?

Aidan

What are we even doing here if we can't say hi to the neighbors?

Josh

No one says hi to the neighbors anymore, and you know why? 'Cause we are the neighbors!

Josh

Just when I start to think that there's hope, like real hope for me to be just like everybody else, I wake up and I'm in hell!

Sally

(interrupting) I'm in hell! I died and now I'm actually in Hell!

Aidan

(to Sally) What happened to you?

Josh

Aidan and I were just talking about how I am in hell but, whatever, let's... talk about you.

Nora

Oh, hello!

Hi!

Josh

(introducing them to each other) Nora, Emily... she's my leaving sister.

Aidan

(noticing Josh deep in thoughts) Are you ok?

Josh

Yeah! No, I'm good, I'm... (pauses) Maybe. Do you think if you mention food to someone, and they say they like to eat, technically it's a date?

Aidan

(resolutely) No.

Josh

No?... (pauses) Sh- she- actually what she said was: (hesitating) "I guess I have to eat".

Aidan

... Who?

Josh

Nora. (Aidan looks surprised) Yeah.

Aidan

She's speaking to you?!?

Josh

Yes, and possibly eating with me.

Aidan

(pondering) "I guess I have to eat"...

Josh

No, yeah, it's not- it's not dripping with enthusiasm but it's not... a no?

Aidan

It's not a no.

Josh

Not a no?

Aidan

(nods) Mh-mh.

Sally

Is it picture day at school? What's up?

Josh

Nothing... is up, ok? You just notice it more because you can't change clothes