half sick of shadows

What’s the big whoop? I dealt with death, and I was fine. Were you? I mean, you never had one moment where you were freaked out by the permanence of death? Never one moment like that?

The Good Place rewatch [217/-]

Leia let go of all the frustration she felt at Han’s long absences, all the bickering they’d never grown  out of. In the end, she knew, he would always come through.

Oh. Did you have a nightmare? I have nightmares, too. Someday I’ll explain it to you. Why they came, why they won’t ever go away. But I’ll tell you how I survive it. I make a list in my head of all the good things I’ve seen someone do. Every little thing I can remember. It’s like a game. I do it over and over. Gets a little tedious after all these years, but there are much worse games to play.

And that was our first kiss. Amongst the dirty socks, with the smell of sweat and dirt, and both of us covered in blood. It was perfect.

What happened to us? What happened to the American Dream?