Memorable Quotes from Julia Butters
4 quotesFamily Tensions and Emotional Outbursts
Sammy Fabelman
Do you always have to be the center of attention!?
Reggie Fabelman
Stop shouting at her!
Mitzi Fabelman
There has been nothing but disrespect from you; I am your mother!
Sammy Fabelman
I WISH YOU WEREN'T!
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A Request for Disconnection and Anonymity
Harper Coleman
Please drive away like you don't know me.
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Family Dynamics and Personal Aspirations
Reggie Fabelman
Is she gonna marry Bennie?
Sammy Fabelman
If she wants to, she will, she’s the most selfish person on earth.
Reggie Fabelman
It must’ve been hard for her, married to a... a genius.
Sammy Fabelman
Dad worships Mom.
Reggie Fabelman
OK - But maybe it’s hard, being worshipped by someone you know you’ll never be as good as, or ever do anything as good as. She laughs at Bennie’s jokes, but...Dad’s always been her best audience.
Sammy Fabelman
Come on. She’ll be fine, she’ll tell herself everything happens for a reason, she’ll make excuses like she always -
Reggie Fabelman
You’re way more selfish than her.
Reggie Fabelman
That’s why you’re angry at her. It’s because she’s scared. Just like you, Sammy. Out of everyone in this outta-control falling-apart family, the one who’s most like Mitzi is you.
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Understanding Monkeys and Human Cruelty
Mitzi Fabelman
When I was a girl and I felt sad, I’d go to the zoo and I’d watch the monkeys.
Monica Sherwood
They made you laugh?
Mitzi Fabelman
Yeah, the monkeyshines. But there was more to it than that, it was...They understand what we’ve done to them, with the cages and the people pointing. We share that with them, the truth of how cruel people are. But if you watch them for long enough, you can tell they know stuff we can’t begin to imagine, important stuff. And they’re not going to let us in on it. Because it belongs to them, it’s their own monkey business, theirs. It’s not ours. It’s, oh I dunno...
Burt Fabelman
Self-possession.
Mitzi Fabelman
Right. They belong to themselves.
Hadassah Fabelman
If it belongs to itself, let it go back to where it came from.
Mitzi Fabelman
Anyway, that’s how come I got a monkey.
Natalie Fabelman
And a therapist.
Lisa Fabelman
He throws his poop.
Monica Sherwood
The therapist?
Lisa Fabelman
No the monkey.
Hadassah Fabelman
That’s why I’m staying in a hotel.
Burt Fabelman
You don’t have to. We have plenty of room -
Hadassah Fabelman
My rabbi in New Jersey says a monkey in the house isn’t Kosher.
Mitzi Fabelman
That’s why we’re not going to eat him.
Burt Fabelman
Did you schedule him for his polio vaccine?
Monica Sherwood
They can get polio?
Burt Fabelman
Well, they’re susceptible to pretty much everything humans are, so yes.
Mitzi Fabelman
Pass the peas. He hates going to the vet. You see, Monica, in this family, it’s the scientists versus the artists. Sammy’s on my team, he takes after me, except he’s got real talent.
Sammy Fabelman
Mom.
Natalie Fabelman
And he’s completely terrible at science.
Reggie Fabelman
And algebra.
Natalie Fabelman
And sports.
Sammy Fabelman
Will you please stop!
Monica Sherwood
He showed me his camera.
Natalie Fabelman
Is he good at kissing?
[To Monica]
Monica Sherwood
I’ll tell you later.
[To Natalie]
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