Exhale | Love, Simon

In this scene from the 2018 film "Love, Simon", Simon finally talks to his mother for the first time in days since he came out to his family on Christmas and what follows is a beautiful response from his mother.

[cynnio]

“you get to exhale now” bro. i don’t think i’ve ever cried harder to a quote from a movie than now

[leahmoore]

I think we all cry at the “You get to exhale now” line because (almost) every LGBT teen needed to hear that.

I sure did.

[christelr.]

What is it about when she says “you get to exhale now” that just destroyed us all? All these years later and i still tear up every time.

[anotheroneofthecrowd]

I’m not sure why, but when I saw this in the theater and this scene played out, hearing all the sniffling and nose blowing from everyone else in the theater was oddly beautiful and comforting. There is so much empathy and kindness out there

[lewishewitt]

When I first watched this I cried my eyes out at this scene, and then I'd come back to it every week or so
Just to hear it

[kitsch.mp]

i just want to hear this from my parents omg

[ALPHA-fzwo]

"YOU DESERVE EVERYTHING YOU WANT"
god, thats just beautiful..

[vedsharma]

Every line spoken here resonated soooo much with me. From the moment his mom spoke about him being carefree as a kid, I immediately remembered how carefree I used to be as a kid, and how troubled I had been since teenage years. When she says you are still you, but now you get to be more you than you have been in a very long time, you get to exhale, I felt hope back again in my life. Because of the environment I was raised in, I had build up this idea that no matter how hard I worked, my life was doomed. Saying you deserve everything you want, was all I needed to hear. THANK YOU sooo much to the makers of this scene. You have no idea what this scene means to me. This is the movie that made me accept this part of me and give homosexuality a chance. Seeing Simon find love at the end of the movie made me realise I wanted just that. This is the first gay movie I saw that had a happy ending, and that I could have a happy ending too in my life, that I could still live a wonderful life. Thanks you soo much makers of love Simon !!! Thank you !!!

[Skinniest_Kween]

Jennifer CARRIED 😭👏✨
I still think about this scene every once in a while and I just have to revisit it. Amazing.

[factorcinema]

Jennifer Garner really said: Follow my lead. It’s my moment now.

5 years already. This scene still in my mind.

[androcus]

Simon so very much needed to hear this. His world had pretty much fallen apart after he was outed. The tenderness, love and acceptance that his mom gave him was very much needed by Simon!!

[foregroundeclipse]

Those words were the words I always needed to hear but never been told them. This hits home for me in more ways than one.

[veepl]

Never fully appreciated how good she is.

[nikkihernandez]

As a bisexual woman who was told I was an abomination when I was dating women & is now 27, married & expecting my first child. I will play this movie if ever my child/ children come out to me. Because this is what a motherly love & acceptance is supposed to look like

[parkspeters]

my mom and I saw this in theaters together, we both cried at this scene. was a really special moment for us

[Floppuccino]

Every now and then I come back to this just to feel the acceptance I wish I could've felt from my own parents when growing up. I sobbed in the movie theater and I still sob to this day

[markvilla]

LET ME TELL YOU, I CRIED SO HARD DURING THIS SCENE

[AleksandrCyplakov-zchy]

As a gay guy, I literally cried when I first saw this scene in the movie theater. My family wasn't accepting of me when I came out to them, so this scene was almost therapeutic to me and healing and what I wish, still, in retrospect, that they had said to me. Thank you for making this film, I think it really helped a lot of people and will continue to do so.

[DDayJa]

i am not gay but i absolutely love this scene and from time to time i’ll come back and just listen to her

[justineves]

This is one of the very best parts of love Simon and I wish more parents were like that in real life