Brothers & Sisters · Season 1
[on the phone I am not the person you think I am. That's what you people don't seem to understand. I am not a bitch. I am not aggressively plotting to make our mother feel bad.
Then why are you staying in a motel?
Because Sarah, the show is putting this up and it's supposed to be a gorgeous room.
Then call mom and tell her.
You know what Sarah, you call mom and you tell her that.
I talk to mom everyday, you guys haven't spoken for two years.
[to Kitty] We're here all together, and I must announce with some trepidation, you're no longer grounded.
When she was fourteen, she was grounded indefinitely.
What for?
Oh, it had something to do with cigarettes and surf wax.
And shoplifting and a boy named Pablo...
No, mom. This is not just about my politics. Tommy and dad think the same things I do, and you've managed to reconcile forty years of loving somebody who fundamentally disagrees with you. But you can't love me. And I don't know what it's about. It's not about the war.
You know, I thought when I quit my old job that I would gain in time what I lost in salary. But being a working mom is like a currency that never has enough value.
Oh my God, I'm going to steal that line.
You were the one who virtually refused to be in my life for three years, who barely spoke, and I know it's because I unforgivably gave my opinion about Justin.
Not refused, couldn't. I was afraid of the things I didn't want to say.
He never wanted to be a soldier. That's what you and your father never understood, he just wanted your approval. You were supposed to say no, you were supposed to say, we love you too much to get hurt like this, no! And now I don't know where my son is. I need you to help me find him, please. Please!
I really don't think this is very healthy.
What's not?
Medicating, sleeping all day. You know, you don't look well. I don't think this situation is working out for you, is it?... So let's get ourselves up, get dressed, take your trash and go home!
Tell me something, how can you feel so guilty when nothing happened between us?
Because being in synch with a man who's not your husband is almost as painful as not being in synch with your husband.
You ungrateful child! You don't care about anyone but yourself, how did you get that way? You know what losing your father has done to me, and yet you take your life and throw it around like it was worthless. Why?
Because I wish I was dead! Don't you understand that, I wish I had died over there, mom!
Well, you didn't die. And I'll be damned if I'll stand around and watch you kill yourself!
It's too much? You want to know what's too much? She's HERE. Mom invited her here.
What do you mean "she's here"?
I mean she's out there drinking mojitoes and...and wearing big jewelry!
Would you care for some more lamb?
What's going on?
What do you mean?
Well, why isn't anyone but us talking?
Oh... Well, they all think that I don't know that my husband had an affair with that women Holly over there; a long one, with a cunning little cottage built for two to go with it. Yes, Warren, you see they all think I'm living in the dark and they're terrified that I'm going to figure it all out tonight. And in their panic and obliviousness and their eagerness to handle me they've lost their very basic ability to conduct themselves in a social circumstance. It's very sad, but there it is... Will someone please pass the mango-peach salsa to Scotty?
We don't love the people we love because they're perfect, we love the people we love because they are.
You don't know me, Kitty, but you're the first woman I've met in years who sends me spinning. I see you and I drop ten stories inside, every time.
Ah, Warren, you know what? We're not in the last ten minutes of a Julia Roberts movie.
The thing is, I don't blame him. I blame myself.
We can't help who we love.
Yeah, but we can help who we are. We can decide to become ourselves. What I saw tonight... seeing myself in Nora's eyes? Is not... It is time that I become a person. I won't be invisible any longer.
If you guys ever need a babysitter...
Do you know a good one?
Me. Seriously! If you ever need a night out...
No. Our kids are Democrats.
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