Category: slow-burn-romance
Quotes of Category: slow-burn-romance
  1. J.K. Rowling _ Fantastic Beasts - The Crimes

    INT. MINISTÈRE DES AFFAIRES MAGIQUES, RECORDS ROOM ATRIUM-NIGHT MELUSINE: Puis-je vous aider? NEWT: Er-yes, this is Leta Lestrange. And-I'm her- TINA: Fiancé. There is an increased awkwardness between them. NEWT: Tina, about that fiancée business- TINA {brittle}: Sorry, yeah. I should have congratulated you- The doors to the records office open. They enter briskly. INT. MINISTÈRE DES AFFAIRES MAGIQUES, RECORDS ROOM-NIGHT The doors close behind them, plunging them into darkness. NEWT: No, that's- TINA: Lumos. NEWT: Tina-about Leta- TINA: Yes, I've just said, I am happy for you- NEWT: Yeah, well, don't. She stops. Looks at him. What? NEWT: Please don't be happy. {in trouble} Uh, no, no. I'm sorry. I don't . . . Uh, obviously, I-Obviously I want you to be. And I hear that you are now. Uh, which is wonderful. Sorry- {a gesture of hopelessness} What I'm trying to say is, I want you to be happy, but don't be happy that I'm happy, because I'm not. {off her confusion} Happy. {off her continued confusion} Or engaged. TINA: What? NEWT: It was a mistake in a stupid magazine. My brother's marrying Leta, June the sixth. I'm supposed to be best man. Which is sort of mildly hilarious. TINA: Does he think you're here to win her back? {beat} Are you here to win her back? NEWT: No! I'm here to- A beat. He stares at her. NEWT: -you know, your eyes really are- TINA: Are what? NEWT: I'm not supposed to say. Pickett is climbing out of NEWT'S pocket onto the nearest shelf. NEWT doesn't notice. A beat. In a rush TINA: Newt, I read your book, and did you-? NEWT: I still have a picture of you-wait, did you read-? NEWT pulls the picture of her from his breast pocket and unfolds it. She is inordinately touched. He looks from the picture to TINA. NEWT: I got this-I mean, it's just a picture of you from the paper, but it's interesting because your eyes in newsprint . . . See, in reality they have this effect in them, Tina . . . It's like fire in water, in dark water. I've only ever seen that- {struggling} I've only ever seen that in- TINA {whispers}: Salamanders?
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