She forks up a little nibble and wedges it in her mouth. "Yum," she croaks. Mrs. Wong looks pleased. "It's made with tofu." I can't resist. "Free-range tofu?" My mother looks over at me sharply. Mrs. Wong takes the bait. "Now, Cassidy, tofu isn't an ...
A pall fell over the room. A black shroud of disease and deathbeds and all the worst things from all the worst places. This mutant world, a tragic portmanteau, the unnatural marriage of two roots as different as could be. 'And do you, Ability take Vi...
Baloo: Now, look. It's like this, little britches. All you gotta do is... Baloo: [singing] Look for the bare necessities / The simple bare necessities / Forget about your worries and your strife / I mean the bare necessities / Are Mother Nature's rec...
Two-Face: Did she believe you? Det. Ramirez: Yes. Two-Face: Of course she did. Because she trusts you. Just like Rachel did. Det. Ramirez: I didn't know what they were... Two-Face: You didn't know what they were gonna do? You're the second cop to say...
Father Damien Karras: It's my mother, Tom. She's alone. I never should have left her. At least in New York, I'd be near, I'd be closer. Tom, President of University: Could see about a transfer, Damien. Father Damien Karras: I need re-assignment, Tom....
Tommy DeVito: [Henry, Jimmy and Tommy are digging up Billy Batts' decomposed corpse. Henry is coughing from the stench, while the others don't appear to be bothered] Hey, Henry, Henry, hurry up, will ya? My mother's gonna make some fried peppers and ...
Draco Malfoy: [Wand pointed at Harry] Well, well what brings you here Potter? Harry Potter: Could ask you the same. Draco Malfoy: You have something of mine, I'd like it back. Harry Potter: [Nudging to his wand] What's wrong with the one you have? Dr...
Hiccup: [follows Valka through the cave] Uh, hold-hold on! Wait just a minute! Valka: This way! Hiccup: Come back here! Valka: Come! Hiccup: You can't just say something like that and run off! You're my MOTHER? I mean, what the...? Do you... do you g...
Peeta Mellark: Katniss, I don't... I don't know kind of deals you made with Haymitch, but he made me promises too. [Pulls off the necklace from around his neck] Peeta Mellark: If you die, and I live, I'd have nothing. Nobody else that I care about. K...
Prime Minister: Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love...
Hawkeye: My father's people say that at the birth of the sun and of his brother the moon, their mother died. So the sun gave to the earth her body, from which was to spring all life. And he drew forth from her breast the stars, and the stars he threw...
Tex: Do you have a family back home? Billy Hayes: Yeah, a mother, father, sister and brother living in Babylon, Long Island. Tex: It's gonna be tough for them. You'll have to tell them about what you're in sooner or later. Say, how much did you pay t...
Charles: [enters Anne and Nicholas' bedroom] [quietly] Charles: How are my little ones? Anne: [excited] Daddy! [she hugs Charles] Anne: Why did you take so long? Charles: [smiles when he sees Nicholas] Hello Nicholas. [Nicholas hugs him] Anne: [to Ni...
Narrator: In the period of which we speak, there reigned in the cities a stench barely conceivable to us modern men and women. Naturally, the stench was foulest in Paris, for Paris was the largest city in Europe. And nowhere in Paris was that stench ...
[Jack throws a bucket of water on sleeping Gibbs] Mr. Gibbs: Curse you for breathin' ya slack-jawed idiot. Mother's love. Jack. You should know better than to wake a man when he's sleepin'. Its bad luck. Jack Sparrow: Fortunately, I know how to count...
Shaun: Mum, look, what would you say if I told you that over the years Philip's been quite unkind to me? Barbara: Well you weren't always the easiest person to live with. Shaun: Mum, he chased me around the garden with a bit of wood! Barbara: Well yo...
Private Ryan: [after being told he can go home] [to himself] Private Ryan: It doesn't make any sense. [normal voice] Private Ryan: It doesn't make any sense, sir. Why? Why do I deserve to go? Why not any of these guys? They all fought just as hard as...
Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: Relinquishing junk. Stage one, preparation. For this you will need one room which you will not leave. Soothing music. Tomato soup, ten tins of. Mushroom soup, eight tins of, for consumption cold. Ice cream, vanilla, one large ...
Jon Osterman: Will you smile? If I admit I was wrong? Laurie Juspeczyk: About what? Jon Osterman: Miracles. Events with astronomical odds of occurring, like oxygen turning into gold. I've longed to witness such an event, and yet I neglect that in hum...
Howard Hughes: Stop there, if you please, Miss Domergue. Have you had surgery, Miss Domergue? Faith Domergue: No. Howard Hughes: Do you have scars of *any* kind? Faith Domergue: No. Howard Hughes: Wipe off your lipstick. That's much better. Now you u...
As a young wife and mother living in a pre-Pinterest world, I used to glue-gun bows and small pieces of minutia together methodically. I was an insomniac proudly penning thank you notes longer than the Declaration of Independence to every person who ...