If we live our lives the right way, then every single thing we do becomes a work of art.
S1 E15Unfinished Business
[after sex] Okay, you guys need to go now.
Okay, then.
Hm, can I have your number?
Why? So we can date?
[as they leave] Late.'
Claire, are you depressed?
I'm not even going to answer that question.
Well, whatever you're going through, I hope you don't blame me.
I would like to go on record as saying I am in full support of you going to art school.
Consider it recorded. But I'm just taking a tour. Let's not get our panties in a wad over it.
[Keith cleans the house and David combs Taylor's hair for a social worker's visit.]
What are you looking for?
Anything that seems too, uh … funny.
Funny "ha-ha," or funny gay?
Clearly there's something wrong with me that you hide something like this from me, your brother and sister knew for months.
I wanted to protect you …
You're not supposed to protect me. I'm supposed to protect you. That's what a mother does. She tries. Most of the time she fails, but how are you ever going to feel loved if you don't ever let me try?
I do. I do feel loved.
[crying] There's just so many months I could have loved you better.
You loved me fine.
You're everything … you're everything to me, and you don't even know it.
[crying] Oh, God, I don't wanna go. Oh, I can't do this. I can't!
I won't let you go. I'll never let you go.
Come back tomorrow noon, we'll torch him then.
That little Indian bitch turned herself in so that she wouldn't come back as a rodent.
[on Nikolai] How thrilled are we that we never have to call him "Daddy"?
Thank God she snapped out of it.
[about the Bennett funeral] Can't Rico do it?
I believe his exact words were: "No fucking way. I'm not your fucking gopher any more."
[about Maya] You guys, she took the most amazing poop this morning!
Who, Lisa?
We despise ourselves so much that we consider our own point of view as trivial. But that's bullshit! That's your father talking!
Chickpeas give me gas.
This is an unusually gassy family!
In the beginning, if you hate something, it's good, because you don't recognize the beauty of your own truth.
I think it's really cool that you live in a funeral home.
Believe me, it's not.
Are you kidding? I'm jealous. It's totally weird … and excellent and perfect for when they write your biography.
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