Ella Simms quotes from Melrose Place

Ella

What is this? You're playing hostess?

Lauren

David's short-staffed. I'm helping him out.

Ella

Lor, no one volunteers to deal with a hungry public without an ulterior motive. If you're trying to win him back, just make sure your next paying job requires an I-9.

Lauren

Not funny, El.

David

If you're here to help, there's some aprons in the back, you can bus some tables.

Ella

I don't know what that means. Anyway, I'm here to engage you in a teeny-weeny, almost nonexistent favor.

David

I'm a little busy here, El.

Ella

Well, not now, obviously. After work. Okay, look, I need to break into WPK to take my name off the fabricated accounting reports, and I don't exactly know how to work my way around a lock-pick.

David

And I do?

Ella

Oh, well, you didn't have a problem MacGyvering your way around your dad's highly-secured mansion.

Wow, I never thought I'd see Starkiller's Truce with Ella Simms.

Ella

And I never thought they could stretch out the search for a missing galaxy into two and a half hours.

Jonah

2,000 big ones. That's awfully generous of you.

Ella

Oh, well, you know how passionate I am about the environment.

Jonah

This is a fundraiser for a school program.

Ella

Whatever.

David

[after breaking into Gabe's office at WPF] The only thing we need now is the code. [Ella shows him the key code she took from Gabe] I'm not even gonna ask how you got this.

Ella

Let's just say my stock soared in the geek community today, no thanks to Jonah, who wanted nothing to do with this.

David

Like you didn't know what you were getting into when you set your sights on a guy with Jonah's moral center.

Ella

It might have occurred to me. Only to be complicated by the fact that I find his moral center one of his most adorable attributes.

David

Ella Simms... you realize that you just said "adorable", right?

Ella

I don't know what's wrong with me. Today at the fundraiser, I actually felt this twinge of jealousy.

David

Who would have thought that Jonah Miller would be the one to pierce the infamous Ella Simms' Kevlar?

Ella

Welcome back, Amanda. We were all wondering where you disappeared to.

Amanda

Is that why you broke into these offices in the middle of the night?

Ella

Wow. I am flattered that you of all people think I'm that devious. But really, me? A cat burglar? Please.

Amanda

I found a couture button by my computer beside a strand of blond hair. I could tell by the split end it wasn't mine. What do you think you are, some kind of Prada ninja?

Ella

Do you really just expect me to sit back and let my boss frame me for a crime that I didn't commit? I mean, seriously. All I've ever been is fiercely loyal. All I've ever done is worked my ass off to make you happy. I mean, why am I your crash test dummy?

Amanda

Because you have a proven track record of veering across moral lines. The perfect profile for a serial embezzler.

Ella

My God. How did I ever look up to such a desperate, washed-up bitch?

Amanda

[slaps Ella] Get out of my building. You're fired.

Ella

[catches Amanda sneaking around in Auggie's former apartment] Now who's the Prada ninja?

Amanda

Do I look like a cat burglar?

Ella

Well, you certainly don't look like the cable guy.

Amanda

Not that I have to explain myself, but Jane gave me the master key to check on all the pilot lights.

Ella

Huh. I see. So you have no interest in the little wall decoration that used to be in here?

Amanda

What kind of wall decoration are you talking about?

Ella

Oh, I don't know, just some old painting of a Dutch guy in a goofy hat. It's probably not worth that much. I was thinking I was gonna sell it on Craigslist.

Ella

[after Jonah told Ella he kissed Riley after the NYU mixer] Jonah, I told you upfront that I wasn't gonna be your rebound.

Jonah

You weren't. You're not. Ella, I really care about you a lot.

Ella

Okay, no, Jonah, just—just stop, okay? You come off as this—this sweet, sensitive, honest guy, the type of guy that would never break a girl's heart in a million years.

Jonah

Ella, look, I never, ever meant to hurt you. I swear.

Ella

Oh, you know what? Thank you. Seriously. Because of you, I've realized that maybe monogamy isn't the end of life as we know it. Maybe I... maybe I can be in a real relationship. Just not with you.