Patricia Arquette Quotes

Mom I had a good meeting with Miss Butler this time, I kinda like her.

Mason What'd she say?

Mom Well, she said that you weren't turning in your homework assignments. And I told her, "I know he does them cause I check em every night." She said she found a big chunk of em crumpled up at the bottom of your backpack.

Mason She didn't ask for em.

Mom Well, baby, she doesn't have to. You're just supposed to turn em in. And she said you're still staring out the window all day.

Mason Not all day.

Mom And said that you destroyed her pencil sharpener.

Mason Not on purpose!

Mom Wait—she said that you crammed a bunch of rocks in it.

Mason I thought if we could sharpen pencils, maybe we could sharpen rocks.

Mom Well, what were you gonna do with a bunch of sharpened rocks?

Mason I was trying to make arrowheads for my rock collection.

Mom ...Hmm.

Mom This is the worst day of my life.

Mason What are you talking about?

Mom I knew this day was coming. I just... I didn't know you were going to be so fuckin happy to be leaving.

Dad That doesn't make sense.

Mason I mean, it's not that I'm that happy... what do you expect?

Mom You know what I'm realizing? My life is just going to go, like that. This series of milestones. Getting married, having kids, getting divorced. The time that we thought you were dyslexic. When I taught you how to ride a bike. Getting divorced... again, getting my master's degree, finally getting the job I wanted. Sending Samantha off to college. Sending you off to college. You know what's next? Huh? It's my fuckin funeral! Just go! And leave my picture!

Mason Aren't you jumping ahead by, like, 40 years or something?

Mom I just... thought there would be more.

Samantha Goodbye, yard! Goodbye, crepe myrtle! Goodbye, mailbox! Goodbye, box of stuff Mommy won't let us take with us but we don't want to throw away. Goodbye, house, I'll never like Mommy as much for making us move!

Mom Samantha! Why don't you say goodbye to that little horseshit attitude, okay? Cause we're not taking that in the car.

Alabama Whitman I'm gonna go jump in the tub and get all slippery and soapy and then hop in that waterbed and watch X-rated movies till you get your ass back in my lovin arms.

Alabama Whitman Please shut up! I'm trying to come clean, okay? I've been a call-girl for exactly four days and you're my third customer. I want you to know that I'm not damaged goods. I'm not what they call Florida white trash. I'm a good person and when it comes to relationships, I'm one-hundred percent, I'm one hundred percent... monogamous.

Samantha Why couldn't Randy and Mindy come with us?

Mom I'm not their legal guardian, honey. That would be kidnapping. I can't just...

Samantha What's gonna happen to them? What happens when their legal guardian is dangerous and abusive?

Mom I don't know, honey. I called their mom. I called the Child Protective Services. Y'know... I have you and your brother. We're in a dangerous situation. You're my responsibility.

Samantha Are we ever gonna see them again?

Mom I don't know... I hope so.

Samantha How much longer are we gonna be here?

Mom Not long. We're... I don't... I don't have all the answer, baby...

Samantha ] It'll be okay.

Mom I'm fine.

Mason Mom, do you still love Dad?

Mom I still love your father... but that doesn't mean it was healthy for us to stay together.

Mason What if after we move he's trying to find us, and he can't?

Mom Oh, that won't be a problem. He can call Grandma and she'll tell him, or he can call Information. We won't won't be hard to find.

Mason Is he still in Alaska?

Mom Well, that's what your uncle says.

Mason Probably taming polar bears or something.

Mom Yeah, well, I hope they're taming him.

Alabama Whitman I had to come all the way from the highways and byways of Tallahassee, Florida to Motor City, Detroit to find my true love. If you gave me a million years to ponder, I would never have guessed that true romance and Detroit would ever go together. And to this day, the events that followed all seem like a distant dream. But the dream was real and was to change our lives forever. I kept asking Clarence why our world seemed to be collapsing and everything seemed so shitty. And he'd say, That's the way it goes, but don't forget, it goes the other way too. That's the way romance is. Usually, that's the way it goes. But every once in awhile, it goes the other way too.

Alabama Whitman Amid the chaos of that day, when all I could hear was the thunder of gunshots, and all I could smell was the violence in the air, I look back and am amazed that my thoughts were so clear and true, that three words went through my mind endlessly, repeating themselves like a broken record: you're so cool, you're so cool, you're so cool. And sometimes Clarence asks me what I would have done if he had died, if that bullet had been two inches more to the left. To this, I always smile, as if I'm not going to satisfy him with a response. But I always do. I tell him of how I would want to die, but that the anguish and the want of death would fade like the stars at dawn, and that things would be much as they are now. Perhaps. Except maybe I wouldn't have named our son Elvis.