Memorable Quotes from Ashley Peldon
5 quotesA Sweet Exchange Between Friends
Young Elizabeth
Sugar?
[carrying a bowl of sugar]
Drop Dead Fred
Yeah.
[Lizzie pours sugar on the mud pie]
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Promises of Friendship and Loss
Young Elizabeth
Dear Drop Dead Fred, you were my only friend, but she took you away from me. I know I'll see you again. someday.
[writing a letter to Fred with a green crayon (because green is his favorite color]
Fred
If you come back, I promise, we'll run away together." See that? "Pro-mise." I found that when I was hiding in the stupid garden shed.
Lizzie
That's right, that's where I hid it. But you never answered it. You just disappeared... And when you did, all the... the... life... and, um... the spirit... and... the...
[Fred takes the letter and folds it up delicately, putting it in his pocket; she starts to cry while remembering]
Fred
Fred?
[hesitantly]
Lizzie
Yeah! Fred! It all just went out of me! Oh, I should have never let my mother know how much she could hurt me... Once she knew how, she knew that she could do it all the time... And she did. So I never showed her my real feelings again.
[dabs her eyes with a tissue]
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Cooking with Drop Dead Fred
Nigel
Honey, why do you call him Drop Dead Fred?
[confused for a minute, then pleased to hear about Drop Dead Fred]
Young Elizabeth
Because that's his name, daddy, and Drop Dead Fred is going to teach me how to cook today. I'm going to need flour and sugar and honey and vodka and a pair of your pants. We're making pants pie. Ouch!
[sweetly; this makes Nigel very happy to know about Drop Dead Fred and the cooking as Lizzie continues]
Polly
Vodka and pants pie, huh? God knows what else?
[confused]
Nigel
But she's only a kid, Polly.
Young Elizabeth
Daddy, how about we throw Mommy out the window? It won't hurt her. She will land right in the gladiolas.
[then she gets tickled by Nigel]
Nigel
You shouldn't say things like that about your mother, or she might cut your head off.
[trying not to laugh]
Polly
Very funny, Elizabeth! Sometimes I think I don't love you as much as I used to.
[upset]
Young Elizabeth
But, Mom, Drop Dead Fred does.
Polly
No more Drop Dead Fred! Period!
[angrily]
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Drop Dead Fred - Dialogue 7
Young Elizabeth
Dad! Daddy, I have some bad news.
[sobbing, jumping off her chair and running to her father]
Nigel
Lizzie, what's with all this fuss about?
Young Elizabeth
Something's wrong with Drop Dead Fred. He is my friend, but Mom took him away from me.
[sobbing; Nigel gasps]
Nigel
Don't worry, sweetheart, give me a chance. I'm sure he'll be okay.
[hugging her by holding her on his lap, trying to comfort her; Lizzie nods her head even in sobs, hugging her father back]
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The Importance of Being Good in Fairytales
Young Elizabeth
Did they live happily ever after?
Mother
Of course, Elizabeth.
Young Elizabeth
How do you know?
Mother
Because, she was a good little girl. If she had been naughty, the prince would have run away.
Young Elizabeth
What a pile of shit.
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