Got married straight out of high school to a guy I knew since fifth grade summer camp. Summer wedding. Guests were mostly mosquitoes. We had a baby boy, then a toddler, now a teen. Last year, my husband phones me at work, tells me he's got a boyfriend named Dale. Says they're moving in together. Says he's sorry. He loves me, but not like that. "What else is there?" I say. You think the world is something, then it turns out to be something else.
“Unfinished Business” · Season 1, Episode 15
In this episode: Dean Winchester (940), Damon Salvatore (715), Sam Winchester (665), Olivia Benson (637), Stephen Fry (608), Narrator (554), Clark Kent (523), Nate (486)
The problem is not that there is evil in the world. The problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
Well, you should be happy, Mr. Stussy. Your first action item is complete: the accumulation of wealth.
I'm just so tired.
Perfectly natural. You see it all the time in the wild - the smaller animal going limp in the jaws of the larger. Genetic instinct. At some level, food knows it's food.
Are you as low as you can go?
What?
I asked you if you still feel you've got room to fall, or whether this is bottom.
Honestly? If you'd asked me yesterday, I'd have said I couldn't go lower - sitting in jail, staring at a life behind bars or the electric chair. But now, here we are today, lower still.
Oh, I've been watching. This Varga fella plucked you like a chicken. But he's gone now, so I'm gonna finish the job.
Frederick Douglass once intoned, "I stand before you as a thief and a robber. I stole this head, these limbs, this body from my master and I ran off with them." My point being, the moment our feet touched American soil, we were already criminals.
Webster's defines "assimilation" as "the process of becoming similar to something". But imbibing these words, dear reader, we are forced to ask, similar to what? If America is a nation of immigrants, then how does one become American?
Oh, oh, apologies.
What?
Oh, I was simply excusing myself. I’m not normally this out of sorts.
It’s a funeral. People cry at funerals.
Ah, amen. Those are wise words for a person of your complexion. But then I’ve noticed your people are often more in touch with your spiritual side and emotional side.
My people?
[Oraetta snorts cocaine]
The Negro. It’s a Baptist fervor, I’d wager, what causes them to hoot and tumble to the floor, aflush with the Holy Spirit.
Miss Mayflower, I see you’ve met my daughter, Ethelrida.
Your daughter?
The one and only. Ethelrida, this is Miss Mayflower. She’s a nurse at St. Bartholomew.
[A confused Oraetta looks at the white Thurman and dark-skinned Oraetta]
Oh yeah. Huh! Yes, now I see it. This child is certainly the product of miscegentation.
Uh, if by that you mean she’s the spitting image of her father, then I take that as a compliment.
Your mother must be quite dark-skinned. As I’ve noticed in my study of the human animal, that in the combination of races, it is de rigueur for the more extreme coloration to prevail.
This is my associate, Doctor Senator.
CWClayton Winckle
You're a doctor?
No, sir. Name's Doctor. Doctor Senator. It was my mother's idea.
CWClayton Winckle
And what was her name?
Ma'am.
You got a funny way of talking.
Yep. I'm from Minnesota, land of 10,000 lakes.
No, I mean you use big words.
Well, I've found in my 36 years on God's green Earth that it's absolutely critical to be precise in your use of language so as to avoid instances of misreckoning.
Looks like you done well for yourself these years I've been away.
DSDibrell Smutny
You ain't getting no handout.
Listen at you, acting like the big sister. Wasn't asking for money. Swanee and I got prospects.
What kind of prospects?
SCSwanee Capps
Bank robbing. [Swanee makes a finger gun gesture] Pa-choo, pa-choo.
You seeing to his education?
I'm teaching him how the world works.
And how's that?
It's dog eat dog.
That's how dogs work. Men are more complicated.
Not in my experience.
MGMilvin Gillis
Am I getting fucked here?
Slow your roll.
MGMilvin Gillis
'Cause the only reason I'm letting my daughter marry some guinea greaser is that I got ambitions: political, financial...
And here I am, hopelessly in love.
MGMilvin Gillis
Go fuck a state park! You ain't getting a piece of the Gillis legacy until I got assurances you can deliver votes. Mayors don't elect themselves and elections aren't free.
Dad? Can I call you dad? My pop didn't claw his way out of the plebian dynasty so that his sons could end up in middle management. You want to be mayor? I want my kids to be president. So I'll get you your votes and your, uh, bustarella. But first I'm gonna slow-pump some babies into your daughter one at a time and twice on Sundays. Now get a drink. And try the calzone! They're a riot.
[regarding Oraetta] That is one weird white lady.
We haven't met. I'm Doctor Senator. [Doctor reaches his hand out but Gaetano refuses to shake it] You got to give respect to get respect.
GFGaetano Fadda
Is that why you Americans are so soft? All this giving and getting? [in Italian] It's all shit. [in English] In the land of taking and killing, Gaetano is king.
DWDick "Deafy" Wickware
Captain Hanhuck, I can safely say you blasphemy more than any man I've ever met. And I've been to Cleveland.
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