Cobb: I can't stay with her anymore because she doesn't exist.
Mal: I'm the only thing you do believe in anymore.
Cobb: I wish. I wish more than anything. But I can't imagine you with all your complexity, all you perfection, all your imperfection. Look at you. You are just a shade of my real life. You're the best I can do; but I'm sorry, you are just not good enough.

And I will lead them on a merry chase.

Arthur

Ariadne: Why is it so important to dream?
Cobb: Because, in my dreams we are together.

I think I'm going to sit this one out, boys.

Eames

Look at you. You're just a shade, a shade of my real wife. How could I capture all your beauty, your complexity, your perfection, your imperfection, in a dream? Yes, you're the best that I can do. But, I'm sorry, you're just not good enough.

Cobb

Ariadne: Are these the 'experiments' you do every night? You're trying to keep her alive, aren't you? You can't just create a prison of memories. Do you really think that could contain her?
Cobb: You were not supposed to see that! This has nothing to do with you!
Ariadne: Nothing to do with me? We're supposed to be sharing dreams, here!
Cobb: Not these. These are my dreams.

Cobb: I came here to tell you... something.
[pause]
Cobb: Something that... you once knew to be true.
Saito: [remembering] Impossible...

She locked away a secret, deep inside herself, something she once knew to be true... but chose to forget.

Cobb

Dare you take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone.

Saito

[Confused] Wait, Who's subconscious are we going through exactly?

Ariadne

I just want to understand.

Ariadne

Do you know what it is to be a lover? Half of a whole?

Mal

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Inception Quotes

I miss you more than I can bear, but we had our time together. I have to let you go.

Cobb

You're waiting for a train; a train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you can't be sure. But it doesn't matter - because we'll be together.

Mal

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