Love Quotes in On the Beach

Man, Commander Towers has been out of the game longer than Larry Byrd. Knowing that, he's going to have his hands full with Moira Davidson—she parties so hard that she makes Ke$ha look like a nun. A super-glittery nun, sure, but a nun nuntheless.

Naturally, Dwight can't help but think about his wife as his feelings toward Moira grow. Sharon is almost assuredly dead—as is the rest of his family—but Dwight is unwilling to let her go. Once a married man, always a married man in this case.

Dwight's ship-hands are less chaste than their principled boss. We're not saying that's a bad thing, either—if you find out you've only got a year to live, hollering at every hunk and honey you see seems like a fairly normal response. And a hunky honey? Well, that's just like winning the lottery.

Moira knows she's fighting a losing battle for Dwight's heart, but she never stops marching forward. That's a testament to how sincere her feelings toward him are.

OMG, it's finally happening. Of course, Dwight just has to burst our bubble by mentioning his dead wife while kissing his new boo, but we'll take what we can get at this point. So don't mind us, we'll just be over here writing copious amounts of fan fiction.

As much as Dwight loves Moira, he loves his wife Sharon just a little bit more. In fact, he loves her so much that he buys her a fancy diamond bracelet despite knowing that he'll never actually be able to give it to her. As with most things in On the Beach, this makes us want to simultaneously bawl like a baby and praise the beauty of humankind.

Moira loves Dwight so much that she convinces the Prime Minister to open trout season early, since she knows that this will make Dwight happy. Seriously, Dwight—if you can't see that this girl's a keeper by now, then you need to get your eyes checked.

In the end, this is why Moira never turns her back on Dwight, even after he makes it abundantly clear that nothing will happen between them. As she says elsewhere, she might have been able to bag him if she had enough time, but time is exactly what she lacks.

For his part, Dwight isn't oblivious to Moira's feelings—he actually feels plenty toward her as well. But if there's one thing we know about the smooth Mr. Towers, it's that he always follows the rules, no matter what. In fact, we'd even argue that if Moira had convinced him to get jiggy with her, he would have become a different man from the one she fell in love with.

On the one hand, this makes us cheer, because Moira is the one denying Dwight for once. You go, girl. On the other, though, it's also the biggest tearjerker of all time because it's the final moment these two almost-lovers will ever share. And now if you'll excuse us, we need to, uh, figure out who's cutting onions near our cubicle.