Kalinda Sharma quotes from The Good Wife

Kalinda

The average teenage boy sprinting would likely be in the range of eight to ten miles per hour.

Alicia

How do you even know that?

Kalinda

Would you believe me if I told you I was a track coach in a previous life?

Alicia

No.

Kalinda

Okay.

Kalinda

Ass!

Alicia

Nice, nice.

Kalinda

You oughta try it sometime.

Alicia

What, flipping someone off?

Kalinda

It's good for your soul.

Kalinda

You realize Cary's never been to trial before.

Alicia

How is that even possible?

Kalinda

Easy. By pleading out every court case that comes your way.

Kalinda

[after making her report about Malcolm Overby] Are you sure that's what you're looking for?

Diane

I... don't know. Should I be looking for something else?

Kalinda

Well, that's like asking the dentist whether you should brush.

Kalinda

Do you know how much you pay jury consultants?

Diane

No.

Kalinda

A hundred thousand dollars for three months work.

Diane

That sounds about right.

Kalinda

Do you know how much I make?

Diane

I have a feeling I'm finding out.

Kalinda

A fourth of that.

Diane

That sounds outrageous.

Kalinda

Yeah, it does, doesn't it?

Kalinda

We'll split the interviews.

Cary

How long you been working at Stern and Lockhart?

Kalinda

No.

Cary

What?

Kalinda

Ask them about the M.O., the Bulls sweatshirt, anything that's remotely similar to Clarence.

Cary

What did I do?

Kalinda

Uninterested.

Cary

You're uninterested in talking?

Kalinda

How much would you imagine we'd have in common?

Cary

I don't like talking to people I have a lot in common with.

Kalinda

Okay, I have a proposition for you. Find this person, I'll tell you whatever you want to know.

Cary

Whatever I want to know?

Kalinda

And more.

Cary

Okay, you just saved Clarence Wilcox's life.

Kalinda

You know what I like about you? You're three months into a ten-year sentence, and you're plotting your political comeback.

Peter

Politics is just a game of Chutes and Ladders. Right now, I'm at square one.

Alicia

I've got to get this to Will. It's enough for evidentiary appeal.

Kalinda

Probably, but if you're going to go all the way with this, you're going to have to talk to your husband.

Alicia

My husband? Why?

Kalinda

He knows where the bodies are buried.

Alicia

Does anyone ever surprise you?

Kalinda

No.

Alicia

Even me?

Kalinda

Especially you.

Kalinda

You want to make people mysterious. People aren't mysterious.

Cary

Okay, then the same thing goes for you. You're not mysterious. By the same logic, you're completely knowable.

Kalinda

Sure.

Cary

Okay, so then hit me. I want to know. Go ahead.

Kalinda

Cary, you and I have nothing in common. 'cause you and I are from different worlds. And it's not just Mars and Venus. It's spaghetti and hydrogen. We're different categories. I'm knowable, but just not to you.

Alicia

I'm tired of being the one who has to hand-hold the clients. You know, they send me off to get a client to agree to do something I- I'm not even involved with, because they send me off to hand-hold the client.

Kalinda

You're babbling.

Alicia

I know. Thank you.

Kalinda

Look, it's not a conspiracy. You're good at it.

Alicia

That's what my brother used to say to get me to do chores:"Alicia's good at it". I've worked two months on this Duke case, and now that they're settling, I'm off on some divorce case, and Cary gets all the glory.

Kalinda

Yeah. Life stinks.

It's an ongoing investigation!

Kalinda

The Lindbergh Baby is an ongoing investigation.

Glenn Childs

I don't think you understand how exposed you are from your past work with the state's attorney's office. Subpoenas stopped at Florrick only because I wanted them stopped at Florrick.

Kalinda

You're trying to tie me to his scandal.

Glenn Childs

You are tied to his scandal. I am offering to keep the record sealed if you give me what I want, that's all.

Peter

Childs tapped my home. We don't want to subpoena those tapes unless we can preview them.

Kalinda

Without him knowing.

Peter

Mm-hmm. So, I think you should accept Childs' job offer. Work for him. And for us. That should be a familiar feeling for you.

Kalinda

I always did like you.

Cary

Are you seeing someone?

Kalinda

[she stays focused on the people they are watching] Okay, when they go into the locker room, don't approach them. Just watch the exchange and I'll make the approach later.

Cary

I'm sorry, did you hear my question? Do you have a boyfriend?

Kalinda

Do I have a boyfriend?

Cary

Yeah.

Kalinda

No.