“Don’t you get it? I can’t feel
that. It’s sweet an everything, but it’s like your not even there sometimes. It’s
great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when
someone doesn’t need a shoulder? … You can’t just sit there and put everybody’s
lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can’t. You have to
do things. … Like tell people what you need. Or what you want. … You weren’t
being his friend at all because you weren’t being honest with him. … I don’t want
to be somebody’s crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me,
not what they think I am. And I don’t want them to carry it around inside. I want
them to show me, so I can feel it, too. I want them to be able to do whatever
they want around me. And if they do something I don’t like, I’ll tell them. … I’m
going to do what I want to do. I’m going to be who I really am. And I’m going
to figure out what that is.”
Sam says all of this to Charlie the
night before she leaves for college. I think in this speech she captures the
meaning of a relationship. It involves honesty and openness and without both of
those things, why should you care if the person you’re with loves you or not. Because
at that point, if you’re not open and honest with them then they don’t even really
know you.
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