7.3.2010

GIRL
Have I seen you before?

TOM
I, uh, don’t know. I don't think so.

GIRL
Do you go to St. Patrick’s? Not to pray or anything but to stand outside?

TOM
I do! I love that church. It’s like my favorite structure in the city.

GIRL
If only it wasn’t near that horrible mirrored thing...

TOM
Yes! Exactly. I totally agree!

GIRL
Yeah.
I think I’ve seen you there.

TOM
You have? Really? Hmm. I didn’t see you.

GIRL
It happens. You probably weren’t looking.

(...)

NARRATOR
If Tom had learned anything... it was that you can’t ascribe great
cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence. That’s
all anything ever is. Nothing more than coincidence.


500 days of summer, 2009