Dawn Solano quotes from Girls5eva

[about Dawn's young son Max] He's a classic New York Lonely Boy.

Dawn

What?

New York Lonely Boy. A son born to older parents who's more comfortable around adults than kids. Yeah, they're all over the city, eating sushi. They usually wear a fedora, high-fiving a doorman.

Dawn

That sounds like some Manhattan shit. We're Queens people. Our heat comes from one really hot vertical pipe.

Well, they're in all the boroughs. Except Staten Island, 'cause there's never been an only child from there.

Dawn

How do you know about this?

Half my patients have one. But you're in good company: John Slattery has one, Kyle MacLachlan has one, Matthew Broderick is one.

Sorry, I didn't mean to bother you, but it looks like you've got yourself a real New York Lonely Boy there.

Dawn

Um, yeah, uh, I guess I do, John Slattery.

All I can say is, congratulations. A New York Lonely Boy is the greatest gift a parent could ask for.

Dawn

It is?

Heck yeah. I had five siblings. I was too busy fighting for food to develop a single goddamn interest. But this kid, he teaches us things. He know Mandarin, he make sourdough bread, he makes these little movies—

Oh with the marionettes, it's very imaginative.

Yeah, he loves museums.

Oh, he's really good at a dinner party

[to his son] What was that thing you said the other night?

Never trust a restaurant on a corner.

He's right! They always phone it in. Every day's like Father's Day, he's our best friend.

Don't worry, they don't stay lonely forever. Before you know it they're dating a 23-year-old named Lucy; she's a landscape architect but she, she also submits fiction to the New Yorker.

Dawn

So I won't ruin my son by not having another baby?

No. If anything, the baby will ruin him.

Wickie

Hey Summer, you know what would be a huge help? Would you make the salad?

Summer

Oh, I'm good. I smelled a MacDonald's on the way up, so I can stay and collab.

Wickie

Or you could go and collab, because behind every great song is an even better salad. Tell her, Dawn.

Dawn

Yes. John was only able to write "Come Together" once he knew... Paul was... handling the salad.

Summer

Huh! Is that true?

Wickie

Yeah, five sure!

[singing during their writing session] We are / Stronger than the best!

Oh.

Wickie

What?

No, no, I like it. But if you're stronger than the best, wouldn't that make you the best? So why are they still the best?

Wickie

I think we just became stronger than the best during the song, so technically we are the best now; it's just not reflected in the rankings yet.

Why?

Wickie

Because they come out on Mondays.

Summer

Oh, you roll your eyes at my ideas just because they're terrible, but your ideas are not great. "Stronger than the best?" What does that even mean?

Wickie

[angrily] The song explains it, it hinges on paperwork!

Wickie

If you wanted the solo why didn't you just come out and say it like a normal person?

Dawn

Why didn't you just offer, like a normal person? Even Paul lets George do his own thing sometimes!

Wickie

Because Paul George is one basketball man, Dawn; you're not making sense!

Dawn

I need to go down to the restaurant and count fish heads to make sure my chef isn't robbing me of fish torsos, because I am my grandmother's daughter!

Wickie

[scoffs] No, you're not! Your mom is!