Necar Zadegan: Elena

Elena Undone

Elena

Elena: Make love to me.
Peyton: [caught off guard] What? I thought you wanted to wait.
Elena: Peyton... make love to me.
Peyton: I want to, Elena. I really... really want to. But you must know that once we go there... once we cross that line, there's no going back.
Elena: [after a pause] I don't want to go back.

Peyton: I really like you. More than I should. So... we don't, you know, have to talk about it or anything. I mean, I'm fine with that. I just think that if we just... don't spend time...
Elena: No! No! No, god, Peyton. No! I don't want to not spend time!
Peyton: But, you just heard what I said...
Elena: Yes, but we... we need to be in each other's lives! I just found you! You're my absolute best friend. And I know we can get around this. I don't want to not be with you. And you can have *all* of me. All of it except for that. All of me.
Peyton: Okay, just so you know... 'that' is a big deal for a lesbian. I mean, at least in the beginning.
Elena: I just... Peyton, let's have some wine. Let's make a plan. Just please, please don't take you away from me.

Elena: I just need you to know that none... *none* of what we had was a lie. It was the truest thing I have ever known.

Elena: He hasn't touched me since we've been together. You know that, right?
Peyton: Oh, my god. What was I thinking? Who can think? You know what? You're gonna have to do it eventually. You'll end up doing it, right?
Elena: It means *nothing*.
Peyton: No... You'll make *us* mean nothing.

Elena: I feel like it's about to devastate everything I know. What am I doing? Look at all the people I'm hurting.
Tyler: You can't rewrite the past, but you can reframe the present. What a gift you have been given! I have never seen you so alive and joyous and in touch and full of passion! Peyton makes you breathe!

Elena: You're not the only one with feelings. I'm so confused, Peyton. Can't we just agree to call it a serious crush?

Tyler: What's with the shimmering new and improved you, huh?
Elena: Oh, Tyler... I'm in love. For the first time... for the only time in my life. I am in love!

Elena: [to Peyton] This entire last year was never supposed to happen. It was never even imaginable to me. I fell in love with you... a woman.

Elena: Sometimes I think I just got married to rebel against my parents. My father's Indian. He's very old school. You know, stern but quiet hand. My mother's from Spain. She's very... Catholic.
Peyton: Now that's a lethal combination.
Elena: It is! It really is.

Elena: I don't know. Maybe some of us are not meant to have a soulmate like Tyler thinks.
Peyton: Well... I don't know about soulmates, but... Y'know, with Margaret... after that?
[faux southern accent]
Peyton: Frankly my dear, I don't care if I never see another lesbian for as long as I live... I'm not kidding.

Elena: I never even kissed a girl. With my upbringing, that never really occurred to me. I guess I'm just a square.
Peyton: Or maybe you're just straight.

Barry: Maybe I am clueless, but I know one thing if I know nothing else. You are not a lesbian.
Elena: You're right, I'm not.

Barry: Don't get me started on how selfish this is. Nash needs us.
Elena: You're right, Nash needs us. He needs us. The *real* us. The *best* of us. My god, Barry, I'm done lying. To him, to you, to myself. This has nothing to do with Peyton. This is my decision about my son and my life. I should have been done with this charade years ago.
Barry: A charade? Are you serious? You got on this thing from the very start!
Elena: And *that* was selfish. Being here, and not really being inside it with you. I'm done with this Barry. And if it's selfish, so be it.
Barry: It *is* selfish.
Elena: Barry, I'm done with this.
Barry: Elena, I...
Elena: I'm done.

Tori: A normal person engages in the pursuit of kissing a mere twenty-one thousand plus or minus minutes in their sorry little lives. Which boils down roughly to mere months. So, who cares whose kissing whom?
Elena: Really?
Tori: Really! I mean, over the lifespan of an average eighty-year-old, they're only having sex six times a year. I mean, we take more baths and we eat more chocolate bars, for gosh sakes!

Elena: [to Tori and Nash] You know, I think you two are what Tyler calls Twin Flames. I do! And you found each other so early in life!
Nash: Oh, ma, come on!
Elena: Think of all the time left you have to bicker, you two!

Elena: I wasn't looking for this. God knows I don't really understand it. And I certainly didn't realize what was happening until it was too late.
Nash: You *are* going to tell Dad.
Elena: I certainly planned on telling him before you!

Peyton: You don't get it. I am... too far in.
Elena: I understand that you're scared... and all the reasons you don't trust. But don't you know by now, Peyton, this is what I want?