Carol Hathaway quotes from E.R.

Carol

[to her guests at the wedding] I don't know what to say. I don't know what the future holds. But I guess I'm just lucky to be alive and have so many good friends who care for me. It's been a wonderful year because of all of you.

Carol

[reading] "A man pushes a vacuum cleaner with a force of 70 Newtons at a 45-degree angle, and moves the vacuum cleaner 5 meters. How much work has he done?" Well... let's start with the unlikelihood of a man pushing a vacuum cleaner.

Carol

[to Jeanie] I swallowed a bunch of pills a few years ago. When I got back to work, people either smothered me with kindness or treated me like I was invisible. If we aren't friends, maybe we should be.

Carol

I killed a man and no one around here seems to give a damn.

Carol

[to Doug] I'd have to do the entire Bulls lineup on the damn admit desk before I even began to be equal with you!

Carol

[to Doug] I've spent years, years of my life, changing to fit your needs, working around your schedule, your insecurities, your inability to commit. Well, you know what, Doug? It's not all about you! I know that may come as a shock, but a relationship is give and take; two people as equals, and right now I need something! [crying now] So you can grow up and accept it or you can go on being the same selfish, self-centered bastard you've always been and refuse to give me the one thing, the one thing I've ever asked you for!

Carol

I mean, do we even pretend to be living in a democracy anymore? It's just a medieval power play between career Republicans and Democrats and who hates who more. If there were still guillotines and burning at the stake, I swear they'd be doing that too.

Carol

Residents...the only thing worse than med students.

Carol

[to Luka] No offense, but you look like crap.

Carol

[as she enters the lounge and all the doctors stare at her] Is something wrong?

Benton

Oh, you bet there is. We're out of coffee again because the nurses have been taking it, that's what's wrong.

Carol

So, make some more.

Benton

Make some more? We work 36 hours on, 18 off, which is 90 hours a week, 52 weeks a year. For that, we are paid $23,739 before taxes, and we also have to make the coffee?

Carol

My heart is breaking.

Carol

I'm here to unload that new shipment of barbituates.

Jerry

At least you didn't kill off your sense of humor.

Carol

No, just a few brain cells.

Carol

Doug. They called from Neonatal if you want to take a look at the Niemeyer preemie. He's gonna be okay.

Doug

God smiled on him.

Carol

Since when do you believe in God?

Doug

Well, I've been contemplating my insignificance in the universe.

Carol

I thought you were the center of the universe.

Doug

Not always.

Carol

You know what we call motorcycles around here, Ace?

No. What?

Carol

Donor-cycles.

[laughs] Donor-cycles. I like that.

Carol

You would.

Benton

Carol! [drops chart on desk]

Carol

Careful!

Benton

I'm having problems with Haleh.

Carol

So I heard.

Benton

I'd like you to reschedule her, so we don't have to work together anymore.

Carol

From what I hear, you're the one that needs to be rescheduled.

Benton

So, what does that mean? You won't do it?

Carol

No, I won't. The nursing schedule is my prerogative.

Benton

Even if that situation is endangering patient care?

Carol

You work every day and every third night. Haleh's got four kids to support. When is she supposed to work?

Benton

The woman refuses to follow my instructions!

Carol

Why should she? You're still in training, remember? She already graduated.

Benton

Oh, come on, Carol, don't give me that! I mean, we are not equals!

Carol

Look, she may not know how to cross-clamp an aorta, but Haleh has been working in emergency medicine for twenty years and if you would ever hop off that pedestal you've put yourself on, you might see that the nurses make this place work, not you.

Ross

So, I hear you're fostering Tatiana.

Carol

You gonna try and talk me out of it like everyone else?

Ross

No, I think it's a wonderful thing what you're doing.

Carol

Really?

Ross

Absolutely. I always said you'd make a great mother.