The Savages Quotes

Lenny Savage See, she's making me my dinner!

Wendy Savage Are you Simone?

Simone I am.

Wendy Savage I'm Lenny Savage's daughter in B26. He has a big red pillow; it's missing.

Simone Did he have his name on it?

Wendy Savage And his room number.

Simone What's it look like?

Wendy Savage Big. Red. Pillow.

Wendy Savage Dad has been writing on the walls with his shit!

Jon Savage Wen, what the fuck are you talking about?

Jon Savage We don't have to go after him, Wendy; we're not in a ] play.

Wendy Savage Maybe Dad didn't abandon us. Maybe he just forgot who we were.

Jon Savage She's moving back to Poland.

Wendy Savage What, you and Kasia broke up?

Jon Savage No, her visa expired.

Wendy Savage So that's it? Her visa expires, and it's over.

Jon Savage It's either that or we get married and no one's ready for that.

Jimmy Are you married?

Wendy Savage No... but my boyfriend is.

Lenny Savage That son of a bitch was always picking on me.

Jon Savage We're not in therapy now—we're in real life.

Jon Savage Dad's not the one that has a problem with the Valley View. There's nothing wrong with Dad's situation. Dad's situation is fine. He's never gonna adjust to it if we keep yanking him outta there. And, actually, this upward mobility fixation of yours, it's counterproductive and, frankly, pretty selfish. Because it's not about Dad, it's about you and your guilt. That's what these places prey upon.

Wendy Savage I happen to think it's nicer here.

Jon Savage Of course you do, because you are the consumer they want to target. You are the guilty demographic. The landscaping, the neighborhoods of care; they're not for the residents, they're for the relatives. People like you and me who don't want to admit to what's really going on here.

Wendy Savage Which is what, Jon?

Jon Savage People are dying, Wendy! Right inside that beautiful building right now, it's a fucking horror show! And all this wellness propaganda and the landscaping, it's just there to obscure the miserable fact that people die! And death is gaseous and gruesome and it's filled with shit and piss and rotten stink!