Samantha Arias quotes from Supergirl

Lena

What's the matter?

Samantha Arias

I'm just screwing up... not with work. With Ruby. All she wanted to do was to practice her song with me, and I kept saying "Oh, later" and "Later", and look at her. I just feel like the worst mother. [Lena smiles.].... Why are you smiling?

Lena

Because I actually had the worst mother. Objectively speaking. So I find your self-pity a little funny.

Samantha

I mean, my kid fell asleep on my couch in the office. It's not great.

Lena

She fell asleep watching her mom work hard. She may not understand the ins and outs, but she knows it's important and you're the only one who can fix it. That is how you raise a girl to be a badass.

Samantha

Yeah. She already is a badass.

Lena

Yeah, 'cause she's loved. She knows it.

Samantha

I found out something. About myself. And it's a really good thing. It's gonna answer a lot of questions, but I gotta take this trip to get those questions answered.

Can't I come with you? I can come with you.

Samantha

I know you want to, and I wish that you could. But I gotta do this on my own, okay?

Samantha

[holds up her hand] Hold my hand. [Ruby takes her hand] You feel that?

Ruby

Your pulse?

Samantha

That's you. You are my heart. Are you gonna trust me? [Ruby nods] Something wonderful is happening.

Alex

Well, I'm... I mean, I'm not doing anything. So I'm happy to have Ruby here with me.

Samantha

No, I couldn't ask you. Look at your leg.

Ruby

Come on, Mom, let me stay with Alex. At the Christmas party, she promised to teach me how to punch without breaking my thumb.

Alex

Full disclosure: I am not a good babysitter.

Kara

Yeah. You should listen to her 'cause one time, she made me watch The Shining, and I had nightmares for weeks.

Alex

Um, okay, she was fifteen --

Kara

So?

Alex

So... you were the one who wanted to watch it.

Samantha

Um, so I looked up my symptoms. Memory loss, headaches. It could be really bad. Like, brain tumor bad. ALS.

Alex

You know what else causes memory loss. Caffeine withdrawal. Yikes.

Samantha

It's been a rough couple of months, I feel like we can both play a little hooky.

Ruby

Oh, my God, you're being serious.

Samantha

I'm serious. Sound like a plan?

Ruby

Hell, yeah.

Samantha

You get precisely one "Hell, yes" a day. I hope you enjoyed that.

Ruby

Okay.