How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Deadpool.
Quote #1
WADE: Rough childhood?
VANESSA: Rougher than yours. Daddy left before I was born.
WADE: Daddy left before I was conceived.
VANESSA: Ever had a cigarette put out on your skin?
WADE: Where else do you put one out?
VANESSA: I was molested.
WADE: Me too. Uncle.
VANESSA: Uncles. They took turns.
WADE: I watched my own birthday party through the keyhole of a locked closet, which also happens to be my—
VANESSA: Your bedroom. Lucky. I slept in a dishwasher box.
WADE: (Gasps) You had a dishwasher. I didn't even know sleep. It was pretty much 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix, and clown porn. Vanessa laughs.
VANESSA: Who would do such a thing?
WADE: Hopefully you, later tonight?
Wade and Vanessa have a, uh, unconventional way of flirting. As a mercenary and a prostitute, they've seen some stuff. They may be exaggerating and downright lying here, but they've both undoubtedly been through a lot, and it bonds them together, right off the bat.
Quote #2
DEADPOOL: Here's the thing: Life is an endless series of train-wrecks with only brief, commercial-like breaks of happiness. This had been the ultimate commercial break, which meant it was time to return to our regularly scheduled program.
Gee, could Deadpool be any more of a nihilist? He thinks life is a meaningless sludge through suffering. That allows him to take risks, ignore the established law and order, and make his own rules—all from behind the safety of his cynical, sarcastic mask.
Quote #3
WADE: Listen, we both know that cancer is a s***-show. Like, a Yakov-Smirnoff-opening-for-the-Spin-Doctors-at-the-Iowa-State-Fair s***-show. And under no circumstances will I take you to that show. I want you to remember me, not the Ghost of Christmas Me. V
ANESSA: Well, I wanna remember us.
WADE: I swear to God I will find you in the next life, and I'm gonna boom-box "Careless Whisper" outside your window. Wham!
VANESSA: No one is boom-boxing s***, okay? We can fight this. Besides, I just realized something. You win. Your life is officially way more f***ed up than mine. Wade chuckles.
WADE: I love you.
There are a couple of things to unpack here. First, Wade's whole "I want you to peace out so you can remember me this way" thing isn't chivalrous; it's actually pretty selfish. Vanessa loves him and wants to be with him; Wade's worried about a loss of dignity. That's why she points out that she wants to remember "us;" Wade may have the cancer, but he's not the only person in their relationship.
The second half of this exchange is a callback to Wade and Vanessa's first conversation, when they tried to out-suffer each other with talk of AWOL dads and sleeping in dishwasher boxes. When Vanessa concedes that Wade has won, it's a reminder both to Wade and to the audience that he and Vanessa are in this together, if he'll let her in.