Following your heart is easy. Following your brain is tough. Especially after years of following that much smaller third organ. That's why all parents screw up all children.
“Parents” · Season 8, Episode 6
In this episode: Gregory House (3), Robert Chase (2)
Screwed up is your best case. Bouncing between a philandering workaholic dad and an embittered, sexually betrayed mom, it's gonna lead to screwed-up squared.
MMonroe
I need insulin. I know it.
Much as I'd like to kill you by dangerously lowering your blood sugar, murder violates my parole.
MMonroe
[pointing to the printout of his test results] That bloodwork is week's old. Test me again.
I am the test. The test is negative. The test also thinks you're a giant pain in the ass. That last insult was your cue to leave.
You know how I got interested in medicine? When my mother drank, she couldn't handle me, so she locked me in my father's study. Only so many hours you can cry and bang on the door before you give up, find something to read. We all have family dysfunction. That's why we're successful. To fill that hole.
[to Adams] You claim you're not screwed up. You may even believe it. But House doesn't and I don't, so you can wait till he camps out on your parents' lawn or you can admit you don't live on some higher plane and thank me later.
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