Ruth Fisher quotes from Six Feet Under

Ruth

You both look so happy. Just enjoy it while it lasts. Which isn't very long. You think you have forever, but you don't. Soon you start to get on each other's nerves. Then you don't tell the other person as much as you used to, 'cause, really, what's the point? You thought they understood you, but they never did … not really. Finally, not only do you not tell the other person anything real, you actively start lying to him. And then, when you think it can't get any worse, he up and dies! No matter what you do, you end up alone, not knowing who you are or what you really want!

Ruth

Okay, I'm a terrible mother who's responsible for all your problems! Happy?

Ruth

Thank you. I've had the best time coming to this funny restaurant and having you yell at me in the bathroom!

Ruth

Sometimes people are hard to take but only because the first side they present is annoying or aggressive because they're nervous. After you spend some time with them you realize maybe there's another side to them that's worth knowing

Ruth

You want me to complain? Alright then, Fuck this. Fuck you; fuck all of you and your sniveling self pity, and fuck all your lousy parents. Fuck my lousy parents while were at it. Fuck my selfish, bohemian sister and her fucking bliss. Fuck my legless grandmother. Fuck my dead husband, and my lousy children with their nasty little secrets. And fuck you Robby for dragging me to this terrible place and not letting me have a snickers bar. I'm going to get something to eat!

Ruth

Who in the world would send you feces in the mail?

Ruth

[to George] I'm your seventh spouse. How much more warning do I need?

Ruth

Just leave me alone so I can shrivel up in peace.

Ruth

[to Hiram] Oh, go give yourself a handjob!

David

What the hell?

Ruth

There's been an accident. The new hearse is totaled. Your father is dead. Your father is dead, and my pot roast is ruined.

Nate

I, uh, think Mr. Suarez kinda shit himself. Is that normal?

David

You stopped to eat? Do you have any respect for human life at all?

Nate

I have a huge respect for human life! I just didn't know that they can take a dump when they're dead!

David

Well, they can. Make a note of it!

Ruth

Boys, I don't like this bickering.

David

Yeah, and I don't like you sleeping with hairdressers. [Ruth slaps David. David walks away, followed by Nate]

Nate

Look, don't take this out on Mom. What is it that you want to say to me?

David

Well, there's a body that's spent over two hours in a van. Unrefrigerated. Decomposing at a rate much faster than you could ever imagine. Thanks for making my life just that much more difficult. Thanks for undermining my authority with our employees. And thanks for making so clear to me that my choice to dedicate myself to this business and to this family was really stupid, because apparently I would have be rewarded just the same for wasting my life.

Nate

Oh, my life is a waste? Well, fuck you. At least I enjoy it.

David

Well, lucky you.

Nate

Dave, at least let me help.

David

You've helped enough.

Ruth

Is this a school trip?

Claire

No. You go to the mountains and confront fear and get in touch with your most basic self... It looks good on your college application.

Ruth

Nathaniel, what happened to us? We were so in love once.

Life happened to us. I buried hundreds of people, and we watched each other grow old.

Ruth

But we're not old.

Well, technically speaking, I'm as old as I'm ever going to get.

Ruth

We were such children when we met. Then we watched those children disappear.

Ruth

I miss what we had.

So find it again.

Claire

You know, it's polite for the first person downstairs to make the coffee even if that person has a penis!

Nate

Well, you know, it's also polite for the first person who uses the bathroom to spend less than 45 minutes in there even if that person has a vulva.

Ruth

[entering] Oh goodness, everyone's here.

David

With all their genitalia.