Nicki Grant quotes from Big Love

Nicki

Margene, you're grounded.

Margie

Excuse me?

Nicki

Or you're on probation. You do not involve our kids in your filthy habits.

Margie

No, no way. You have no authority over me.

Nicki

Authority? Wait just one minute. I'm second, you're third, get it?

Margie

Second's not first. It's nothing.

Barb

I do not want the kids to go to the compound!

Nicki

All the kids or just your kids?

Barb

Any kids and certainly not mine. And mine include yours!

Margie

[to Barb and Nicki] I'm happy. I love you both so much.

Nicki

You're overheated. Put on a hat.

Rhonda

Why did they pick Barb? Is she more important than you two?

Margie

Uh, no.

Rhonda

Well, was there something lacking in you two?

Nicki

Only one person can be mother of the year. Teenie nominated Barb, so that's how it happened. Here.

Rhonda

What is it?

Nicki

Breakfast. To go.

Rhonda

You're irritable, Nicki. Try to find time for a nap this afternoon.

Nicki

I didn't marry for love. I married for the principle.

Barb

I didn't. I tried. I don't know if I have a testimony for the principle. But I love you, I love our family more and more.

Nicki

That frightens me. I don't know that a marriage based on love can go the distance. The secret holiness of the institution. The sanctity of marriage. Without it, it's just random couplings, with no purpose or stick-to-it-iveness. How will we survive the bad times on just love?

Margie

Nicki, can I tell you a secret?

Nicki

If you must.

He was really scary, Mom!

Nicki

All Baptists are, honey.

Nicki

This guy from work? He's a real mover and a shaker, Wanda. He totally made up an excuse to call me yesterday. I think he was flirting with me. Do you think?

Wanda

Has he chased you at night? Has he tried to put you in the trunk?

Nicki

He's not really like that. He wears cardigans.

Wanda

That sounds serious! You're a married woman, you can't be talking about another man's cardigans!

Nicki

You're evil.

Alby

I'm evil? You and your husband have taken my family from me.

Adaleen

State marriages have no meaning to me.

Nicki

Well, they have meaning to me.

Adaleen

We're on separate paths, Nicolette.

Margie

You have to tell them Nikki. You have to tell them now.

Nicki

Her tutor seduced her.

That's not true. If Greg seduced me, Bill seduced Margene.