What's the rule, Owen? If we're in a big place like the mall, and you turn around and you don't see me, you stay put. Or you tell a policeman, you don't go off looking for me, that's how kids get lost.
S5 E7Tender Age
OOwen
I wasn't lost.
S5 E8Love and War
My parents had five kids.
Are you just realizing that now?
Five. How did they manage that?
They had sex a lot?
You get a 6-minute credit. Which, actually, when you figure in my 15 minute credit from, you know, handling the spitup on your shift, that works out to be a 9-minute credit in my favor.
You claim you can't balance a checkbook.
Afterwards what do you say we go pick up a few chicks? Get matching tattoos.
[singing to his baby] If that mockingbird don't mock, Daddy's gonna buy you an athletic sock.
S5 E9Gifts
You thought that once Diana was born, that I would just have to look into that tiny little face, with your hazel eyes and my crooked chin, and that would be it, and that we would just live happily ever after. And, you know something, Charlie, deep down inside, I thought the same thing. But that is not happening. Charlie?
She's crying.
See, I didn't even hear her.
You think you're gonna sacrifice your whole education, blow off a whole year's tuition, to come back here and take care of these kids?
Yeah, well, it's not like you're doing such a bang-up job without me.
SSSuit salesman
What do you want people to say about you after you're dead and gone? 'That Bailey, he sure was sensible with his money,' or 'Damn, he looked good in that black cashmere suit?'
S5 E10One Christmas to Go
Oh no. No no no, we will not, we will NOT call this off! When this family has the opportunity to sit around a table like we used to once a week? I mean, Christmas Eve, a proper Christmas Eve, means stockings, and a night before Christmas, and a cookie on the hearth for Santa, and we are going to do this one thing right, or just die trying.
Put down the remote. No more pay-per-view porno 'till we're done.
It's only soft-core, and we never would have stayed awake last night without it.
Okay, but I'm about to write Stalin into a three-way, so not now.
A person, a parent, who doesn't love their kids, they have kids who grow up the same. And so on, and so on. And that feels bad, mom, to me. That... that feels really really bad.
DDoreen
[to Daphne] I never blamed you for bein' born, so don't blame me for everything that came after.
[to Kirsten] You're as free as a bird, but you stay anyway. So the only two people who actually wanna be here, you and Claudia, I'm like pushin' away. And everyone else, people who are supposed to be family, who actually share my daughter's blood, they can't wait to leave. It just makes me think that if you're not family, I don't know who is.
S5 E11Rings of Saturn
Not that there is ever a right time. But is it before her eyes can focus on me? Is it before she can call me mama...? I'm afraid that I'm always gonna be the kind of mom who can and will walk away. And that's not the kind of mom that Diana needs. Diana or you. So the question is not when will I leave. The truth is, I've already left.
Daph.
Just do one thing for me after I go. Don't let her hate me.
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