Elizabeth Corday quotes from E.R.

Elizabeth

[on the phone] I don't care if it's raining fire and brimstone, you are going to get me to that church if I have to ride on your back like a bloody donkey. [hangs up angrily]

Isabelle Corday

Perhaps you should eat something.

Elizabeth

I do not need to eat. Nor do I need a spot of tea, or a moment of quiet reflection on this, my special day. This is America, and sometimes in this country you have to kick some ass!

Isabelle Corday

We'll take your car and get there early.

Elizabeth

Fine. Fine, okay. But unless you can drive stickshift on the right side of the road, I'm driving.

Isabelle Corday

Elizabeth, you can't possibly drive in your condition.

Elizabeth

Get your purse, grab the flowers, and let's go.

Elizabeth

Now listen here, you ignorant bastard!

Mark

What's wrong?

Elizabeth

Oh... Mark... nothing.

Isabelle Corday

What could be more perfect than marrying the man that you love while carrying his hild?

Elizabeth

Yes, well this love child also comes with an extra forty pounds and hemorrhoids!

Isabelle Corday

Why don't you sit down and have some tea?

Elizabeth

What, so that I can pee every two minutes instead of every ten?

Isabelle Corday

He'll be here, Elizabeth. Don't fret.

Elizabeth

But I do fret! Every time he's late, I fret! Every time he slurs a word, or gets tired, or bumps his head, I fret! I'm about to get married, and I'm afraid. Not of being with him, but of being without him! I'm afraid he won't be around to raise this child!

Mark

[He was]...eaten by dogs.

Elizabeth

Eaten by dogs? In Chicago?

Greene

It happens, a lot! A cop told me.

Mark

[When Mark and Elizabeth are changing Ella's diaper] You take care of it. I've got a shift in three hours.

Elizabeth

What do you think I'll be doing in three hours? I'm the feeding trough, remember?

Mark

Elizabeth, if I could breast-feed, I would.

Elizabeth

Oh, great. Great! You take it! Take it all! The sore nipples, the rashes, the hemorrhoids, the leaking in your trauma gown, the public humiliation, the sleep deprivation, the incontinence, for goodness' sake. You take it! It's all yours!

Is Dr. Benton ever in a good mood?

Elizabeth

He has his moments.

[to Elizabeth about the ecstasy] I was thinking about taking one at a party. They were in my bag. I forgot about it. I'm so sorry. I know there's nothing I can do to make it right.

Elizabeth

You can leave. You can pack up your things and leave my house.

I... I have to call my mom.

Elizabeth

Then call her.

Mark

I am not choosing between my two daughters.

Elizabeth

You don't have to. I'm choosing for you.

Mark

And what am I telling her by letting you ship her away?

Elizabeth

That she needs to grow up. That she needs to take responsibility. That what she does has very real consequences for people besides herself!

Mark

She realizes that. Do you think she would actually hurt Ella again?

Elizabeth

Either she's out of the house by the time I take that baby home or I'm not taking that baby home!

Mark

Hold on, calm down. Take a breath before you start issuing ultima...

Elizabeth

She's my child, Mark!

Mark

I know that! She's mine, too!

Elizabeth

Then start acting like it!

|Romano

What's wrong, is Prince Harry in rehab again?

Elizabeth

Mark's tumor's back. [pause, Romano looks more sympathetic]

Romano

We always knew it was a possibility.

Elizabeth

He's known about it for weeks, and he didn't tell me.

Romano

Maybe he was trying to protect you.

Romano

Is he your husband?

Elizabeth

Yes.

Romano

Do you love him?

Elizabeth

Yes.

Elizabeth

Robert.

Romano

Not now, Lizzie. I am not having a good day. I got spanked in the stock market, some moron from Radiology backed into my Jag and I just spent several hours putting that ER victim back together.

Elizabeth

I need some time off.

Romano

And I need a month in the south of France with Vietnamese twins. It's not gonna happen.

Elizabeth

It's Mark. He's sick.

Romano

I thought he was in Tahiti.

Elizabeth

Hawaii. He's got worse. I don't think he's going to be able to fly home.

Romano

You better go to him.

Elizabeth

I don't know how long I'll be.

Romano

I'll survive.

Elizabeth

Thanks.

Romano

Anything I can do?

Elizabeth

Pray.

Romano

It's not exactly my strong suit, but in this case, I'll make an exception.

Mark

[Reading his bucket list to Elizabeth] Start a rock band and end up on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.

Elizabeth

Do you even play an instrument?

Mark

No, but I always wanted to trash a hotel room.

Elizabeth

Your father's dying.

I know that.

Elizabeth

He's going to die soon. Very soon. If you keep on like this, you're gonna miss what little time you have left with him. This is it, Rachel. This is your last chance. And if you blow it, you're gonna end up hating yourself for the rest of your life.

Romano

Lizzie. You're one face I missed seeing in recovery.

Elizabeth

I'm so sorry, Robert.

Romano

About my arm? Or about not being there?