Sophia Burset quotes from Orange Is the New Black

Sophia Burset

My father had a lung transplant that didn't take. We hadn't spoken since I transitioned. He was a real hard-ass. But in the end, he started asking for me. He even used my new name, Sophia. People get soft, you know, when they dying. If I could've seen him, I don't know...may have felt like closure. But we don't get a lot of that in this life now, do we?

Sophia Burset

You knew? This whole time?

I figured it out when you thought Stations of the Cross meant Christian radio.

Sophia Burset

Okay, all finished.

Show me my big beautiful self.

Lorna Morello

[putting the finishing touches on her makeup] Okay, almost there. Just hold on, all right?

All right.

Lorna Morello

There... We... Go... Oh, I love this part. This is like that TV show where they gave those ladies the... the plastic surgery makeover, and then all their problems just went away after.

Sophia Burset

Okay, here we go...

Lorna Morello

[screaming] I'm so sorry, I can't help it. I just love makeovers, and you look so pretty.

Boo, you look fucking weird. [they look at her in annoyance] What, she does.

[her eyes filling with tears] No, um... I look like my mother.

Sophia Burset

Everybody acts cool most of the time, you know? "Oh, Sophia, hit me with the gossip", "What do you think about bangs, Sophia?" You start to feel like one of the girls. But then something turns and you realize you're still a freak and you'll never be one of them.

Sister Jane Ingalls

Jesus said, "But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you".

Sophia Burset

Nothin' about disemboweling your enemies with a hot curling iron?

Sister Jane Ingalls

You'd think, right? Especially since he had it pretty rough there at the end. But he went quietly.