The Middle (TV Series)

Valentine's Day III (2012)

Atticus Shaffer: Brick Heck

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Quotes 

• Axl Heck : [filming]  This is my brother. And he's been very sick for a long time with a horrible disease. Despite all the "Walks for Hope" and "Fun Runs", there is as yet no cure.

  [Brick coughs] 

  Axl Heck : This has been such a life-changing event for me, his brother, Axl Heck, Mrs. Johnson's sixth-period English.

  Brick Heck : It's the not knowing that's the hard part. Oh, and the dying. Actually, they're both hard.

• Frankie Heck : You got nothin'.

  Axl Heck : I know! And Darrin died for two minutes when he was six.

  Sue Heck : What? He did?

  Frankie Heck : His mother never told me this.

  Brick Heck : What happened?

  Mike Heck : When was this?

  Axl Heck : You guys suck.

• Brick Heck : [reading his paper]  "What is love? Shakespeare tells us that love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. I'm only ten and have yet to experience great love, so I chose to write about the only love I'm familiar with - the love my parents share. It's not a new love filled with burning passion. My sister says they don't even French kiss anymore."

  Frankie Heck : Sue!

  Sue Heck : Brick!

  Brick Heck : [continues reading]  "But it's the little things they do for each other that tells me what love is. Like in the car when my mom puts her hand on the back of my dad's neck and massages it. Or when my dad warms up my mom's car and scrapes the ice off the windshield on cold mornings. And how they've learned to communicate with each other using their own special language. It's true we don't have a lot of money, but I like to think even if we did, my parents would still be at home hanging out together. Of course, in a much nicer house with a Jacuzzi soaking tub. If you ask people what they think are the greatest love stories, they'll say Romeo and Juliet or Hermione and Ron Weasley. And those are fine. But, if you ask me, great love stories can be small like my mom and dad's."