Rose Abbott quotes from Everwood

Rose

[to Hannah] I just started at the art museum over in Colorado Springs. It's very little money involved, but I do get to look at Cézanne all day, which does wonders for the spirit.

Harold

[about Ephram] Over my dead and decaying corpse you're going to Thaw Fest with that boy!

Amy

I am not going with him. I'm just meeting him there. And, since when do you care who I go to Thaw Fest with?

Harold

Since you started asking future parolees to attend with you.

Amy

You don't know him! This is so unfair.

Harold

Well in certain parent-child conflicts, fairness is irrelevant.

Amy

Why is it always the parent that always gets to decide the relevancy of fairness?

Rose

An excellent question, if I do say so myself.

Harold

Hello, dear.

Amy

Mom, Dad is being EXCRUCIATING!

Harold

Excruciating literally means to feel the pain of crucifixion. While my law may be difficult at times, I think we can both agree that Jesus had it a bit tougher.

Amy

He didn't live here.

Harold

I am sorry. For being such a jerk about the dance class.

Rose

No you're not. You just don't want me mad at you any longer because it's uncomfortable for you.

Harold

I'm scared. I don't want to change. I don't want you to change. I like things the way they are.

Rose

Everyone changes; we can change together.

Harold

That's not always the case. Look at the Keys. She went one way, he went another; now where's either one of them?

Rose

We are not the Keys, Harold.

Harold

Well I'm sure even the Keys didn't think they were the Keys until they... were.

Bright

[about Dr. Abbott being nice to everyone] Mom what's dad doing?

Rose

He's having a mid-life crisis dear.

Amy

[after she sees Ephram] Oh my God, he's here how weird is that? It's like we're always in the same place, it's like fate or something.

Rose

Well, it could be that there's only one Main Street in Everwood but fate is nice too.

Rose

Just remember. We were only two years older than they are now when we first...

Harold

Yes. Yes. And God punished us with Bright.

Rose

But I'm not Lance Armstrong...

Bright

No. You're better. You're my mom.

Bright

My chest hurts and I just want to sleep all the time.

Rose

Here, let me see if you have a fever. [feels Bright's head] Nope, you don't feel warm to me.

Bright

I feel warm to me.

Rose

That's because you just pulled your head out of the laundry. What you have is a heartache.

Bright

Can't I just have whooping cough or something?

Rose

Really Harold, I took one hit.

Harold

Hit, so now you know the lingo. I suppose next you'll be listening to Pink Floyd over dinner.

Rose

Amy, you haven't moved for over two hours. Are you sick, sweetheart?

Amy

No, I'm stupid. I had the thing, mom. I had the thing that everybody wants and I threw it away. And now Ephram has become Stephram and you can't just walk up to Stephram and be like, Hi, I'm in love with you again. Especially 'cause she's buying him jackets.

Rose

Ok.

Amy

She's worked back from the inside. She has home-court advantage. I thought I could work the old-school angle, but now I'm realizing that I have no angle. All I have is how I feel and I can't even describe how I feel because it's just, it's so...

Rose

Much.

Amy

Yes, exactly.

Rose

You love Ephram.

Amy

Mom, yes. Keep up.

Rose

But why aren't your feelings enough, sweetheart? Considering the history you two have, it could maybe amount to more than a jacket. And if you could express your feelings to Ephram in a slightly less anxiety provoking way than you just expressed them to me, well...

Amy

It won't be enough. Saying the words doesn't even come close to how I feel about him. And besides that, this is Ephram. Grand gesture Ephram. He had his dad perform surgery on my boyfriend while he was in love with me. He wrote my Princeton essay for me. Our first time together.

Rose

I get it. Say no more.

Amy

I just think if I can find a way to show him just how much I love him, that I remember everything and I'm not gonna forget.

Rose

Then you will. You will.