Sonny quotes from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Sonny

[to Rollins] Look, you're a single mom. You're a full-time cop. Your life is not easy. And it's okay to say that out loud every once in a while.

Sonny

[on the phone with his sister] Teresa, I gotta tell you, I don't know what you've been waiting for, but the last time I checked, all the billionaires who look like George Clooney? They're taken, you know?

Sonny

When I was in the bag, I took a domestic disturbance call. All right? Craig and Ellen Carter. Their neighbor was complaining because they were screaming at each other all night. They were cursing. So I show up. I calm everybody down and do, you know, what we're supposed to do. And I'm looking at this guy and I can just see in his eyes. And he's got that smirk, you know? So I take Ellen outside, and I say, "Listen. Listen, you've gotta stand up for yourself." I told her that she needed to leave this guy, but there's no signs of physical violence, so that's that's all I can do. A month later, I get another call. The same house, same complaint. Only this time Craig is taking her head and bashing it against the wall, and she's dead. So don't you stand there and say that all she had to do was walk out the damn door!

Sonny

You know why sharks don't attack lawyers, right? Professional courtesy.

Sonny

Mr. Moran, here's your choice: Confess and you go into prison as a straight man who assaults gays. Or this goes to trial and everybody hears that you're a self-loathing homosexual who gets angry after he services Black men in bars. As your attorney once said to me, "What's your preference?"

Sonny

The psychology of intimate partner violence is complex. It's not just physical. It's emotional abuse. Instilling fear. Controlling the victim. And Andy lived with his wife's abuse for years, because like most abuse victims he thought he didn't have a choice.

Sonny

The best defense is a gaslighting offense.

Sonny

Sometimes justice is about compassion. And, all due respect, the question should really be: What kind of office do you wanna run?

That for all of us?

Sonny

Oh yeah. Goat cheese and sun dried tomato.

Fin

Figured you for a pepperoni guy.

Sonny

I'm full of surprises.

Sonny

Hey, Rollins, you see this? This time, she's accused of leaving the scene of an accident. What's with these girls? Child stars at nine, sexual icon at 15, flame-out by 20.

Yeah, I know about this. Tensley Evans. Nick told me - he caught the case.

Sonny

Nick? That guy's a disaster magnet.

I liked you better with the 'stache.

I know you don't trust Tensley, but seriously, that guy...

I hear you. You're asking me to let it go, I've let it go

Sonny

[walking into the squad room] There's no underage drinking, drugs, who knows... Sorry, am I interrupting?

No, no, we were just leaving.

Sonny

Oh. It, uh.. just looked like something else.

Sonny

Who wants to call the sergeant?

Fin

The new guy.

Sonny

Still?

Fin

They are not noobs.

Noobs?

Fin

Short for newbies.

Sonny

[rolling his eyes] Yeah, that's much shorter.

Sonny

[to Barba] Am I right, Counselor?

Seldom.

This isn't fair. They're making Tommy out to be the bad guy.

Sonny

Welcome to my life.