Marda quotes from Army Wives

Marda

[arguing with the guards] I showed you my license, what else do you want? My first report card? A pint of blood? Marriage certificate? I got three of them.

Marda

That husband of yours, keeper. Unlike your first one. Dumb as a box of nails and a beater to boot. So I'd say your man-pickings, mightily improved. Because this one is sweet, smart, a little nuts about the soldier thing but I can live with that.

Marda

Now I'm hoping this knee is a by-product of an illegal sexual act. [Trevor laughs]

Roxy

[horrified] Mother!!

Marda

It's a firm grip. You did good!

Trevor

So did you ma'am. You raised a hell of a daughter.

Marda

Roxy tells me your husband was gone. That must be tougher than getting into a nun's undies.

Pamela

[looks up at Marda] That's a new one.

Marda

I'm not drinking now. The past is over.

Roxy

[sarcastically] For you, maybe.

Hey, we didn't come here to fight.

Trevor

Jerry's right. Maybe we should all just take a deep breath and not say something we're gonna regret.

Roxy

Are you talking to me or to her, Trevor?

Trevor

Baby, I'm just trying to keep the peace, ok?

Trevor

That was an adventure.

Roxy

You didn't seem to mind her too much.

Trevor

[chuckles] Oh please. Don't be ridiculous.

Roxy

Why are you always defending her?

Trevor

[looks at Roxy] I'm not. [Roxy is silent] Look, Rox, I know Marda isn't perfect.

Roxy

Yeah. By a long shot.

Trevor

Ok, by a long shot. But at least you've got a mother who loves you and is trying to make things better. You don't know what I'd give to know who my real mother was.

Roxy

So you're still here.

Marda

I broke up with Jerry. Sent him packing.

Roxy

Broke up till you get home or kicked him into orbit?

Marda

[laughs] Take a look at the moon tonight. He'll be circling it!

Roxy

[smiles] That, I'd like to see.

Marda

He is the best thing that ever happened to you and you want to throw it all away?

Roxy

Leave it alone. It's none of your business.

Marda

[...] You forgot what your life was like before Trevor? Your first husband was a wife-beater, drove you out of the house and into the arms of another loser-man who gave you nothing but a second child. You're living in a trailer with two kids on food stamps when Trevor picked you up like a knight on a white horse and brings you here. Look around. I don't know anyone who lives in a house this nice. But I guess it's not good enough for you anymore is it?

Roxy

I never said it wasn't nice!

Marda

You have a man who loves you, who's raising your kids like his own, who's the father of those babies you're carrying.

Roxy

Yes and what happens to them when their dad doesn't come home one day because he's been blown up somewhere around the world?! Did you ever think about that? What happens then?

Marda

Well, then you'll have proud memories of a man who died doing what he believed in.

Roxy

I don't want that! I'm thinking about my family!

Marda

You're thinking about yourself and you know what? There's more to life than just what's best for Roxy LeBlanc.