Ben: I was trying to figure out why that is and I don't think I can talk.
Ben: Right now. I can't talk right now.
Ben: I think I'm really fucked up and the deepest thing I can handle is bashing the shit out of a nail and then yanking it out and doing it all over again because you won't let me fuck up.
Ben: Maybe that's what I'm supposed to get out of this. You won't let me fuck up the only good thing I ever tried to do.
Magnolia: I'm sure you've done plenty of good things.
Ben: Fuck I woke you up.
Ben: I'm so sorry.
Magnolia: I'm awake because Gronk had to go out. There was a squirrel taunting him.
Magnolia: Or a ghost. I'm not sure which one.
Ben: Do you believe that? Dogs can see ghosts?
Magnolia: Ummm…I think so? There are times when he barks at empty rooms and I refuse to believe he's hollering at the termites.
Ben: I like that.
Ben: I wish I could see ghosts.
Magnolia: I know, sweetie. I know. I'm sorry you're going through this. That house isn't the only good thing you've done. I'm sure of it.
Ben: I didn't do anything. That's the problem. I had this big idea and thought I was going to pull off this whole remodel in a goddamn weekend or something and I could've spent that time with my grandmother. So, now she's gone and I didn't give her a nice place for her last days and I didn't even spend those fucking days with her.
Magnolia: Did she know you were working on a house for her?
Ben: Yeah.
Magnolia: I'm no expert on the matter but I think that gesture probably spoke volumes to her.
Ben: Maybe.
Magnolia: It's okay if you can't talk right now. There was a time when I couldn't talk.
Ben: When? What happened?
Magnolia: I made some bad choices a few years ago. I thought something was real but it really, really wasn't. I ruined a dear friendship, one I'll never get back.
Ben: I don't believe that.
Magnolia: lol which part?
Ben: I don't believe that you ruined anything.
Magnolia: Believe it. I've ruined more things than I've preserved. Ruined myself once or twice or a dozen times.
Ben: I don't believe that.
Magnolia: Well…it's true.
Ben: What happened?
Magnolia: Which time? There's the time I dated a guy for YEARS even though he stole absolutely everything from me.
