Brothers & Sisters

As a follow-up to the recap, here are some memorable lines from the episode “Matriarchy.�? Did I miss your favorites? Add them in the comments.

Sarah: Gabe, please don’t chase your little brother.
Gabe: But he spit in my mouth!
Sarah: I don’t care. Slow down, Gabe.
Justin: Wow, Sarah, tough stepmom.
Kevin: They’re just too young to appreciate the pleasures of spitting in someone’s mouth.

Nora: You don’t think that’s a good spot for it?
Kevin: There is no good spot for it, Mom. Kitty’s not in it.

Justin: I can listen while pouring.
Tommy: You can barely listen while hearing.

Tommy: You know how some people run out of chances in life and you can smell it on them?
Justin: So you are Dad now. At least we know.

Nora: They want me to go because they want to honor your father.
Julia: For his golf game?
Nora: No, not for his golf game. For the man who he apparently was.

Nora: I’m not going to ask your brother to go there. He hates that place.
Kevin: Yeah, they’re all such homophobes.
Nora: I did read in the club bulletin that they’re starting a Thursday league for lesbians.
Kevin: Wow, am I the only one who finds that somehow more troubling?

Kitty: But she just said that she wanted to go.
Kevin: No, she didn’t, and she also said I don’t have to.
Sarah: Yeah, that’s her way of asking, dumbass.

Nora: If I were her, I would sell it and move somewhere cheap … and sleazy, preferably on the other side of the world.
Saul: She’s not a terrible person, Nora.
Nora: What are you saying? … Let me tell you something Saul, my darling, I have managed to get through my entire lifetime without ever touching somebody else’s husband. It’s not that hard to do.

Saul: I would think you would at least let someone off the hook for falling in love with the wrong person.

Kitty: You know, if you guys ever need a babysitter.
Sarah: Do you know a good one?
Kitty: Me. … Seriously, if you ever need a night out.
Sarah: No. Our kids are Democrats.

Awful Golf Lady: A good game of golf can solve all the world’s problems.
Kevin: It certainly helped in Iraq.

Warren: When I’m with you I don’t know what kind of person I am. And I find that kind of interesting.

Nora: Your brothers and sisters, they hate culture. I don’t understand it.
Kevin: They don’t hate culture, they’re just real people with better things to do.

Kevin: It wouldn’t be a day in my life without some errand involving Mom.
Saul: Well, welcome to my life for the past … forever.

Joe: You know how I feel about your family. The gossip traffic in there is so damn fast I stay on the sidewalk just to keep from getting killed.

Sarah: I am the way in to me, Joe. Not through my hypercritical, expert in all things, little perfect sister.
Joe: But you don’t talk to me about anything.
Sarah: Because I can’t. Because what’s happening at the company, the mess that my dear departed father left me to clean up, is so filthy, so rotten, that if I tell you you could go to jail.

Kevin: He spends his whole life, his whole life in terms of you. And I do too. And I just wish you would be a little more sensitive to that.

Tyler: Slumming would be a step up for you. You’re on the floor in a hotel hallway, wasted out of your mind. Jeff is going to take you to the break room. When you’re good enough to drive, go home.
Justin: Why not fire me? Why keep me around?
Tyler: I don’t know. Maybe because I know who you used to be in high school, Justin. You were the boy with the sweetest smile. You made the future look easy. And I want to give him a second chance.

Doctor: I see a lot of kids come through here. But I don’t see a lot of kids come through here with that many people in the waiting room.
Sarah: We’re kind of a tribe.

Tommy: Everybody else might sit around and feel bad for you, but I won’t.
Justin: I didn’t ask for your sympathy, and I certainly didn’t ask for your help.
Tommy: When are you going to grow up?
Justin: You’re a piece of work, just like dad.
Tommy: I’m not like him. Dad never stopped caring about what you did with your life. I do. I stop right now. I stop today.

Nora: I don’t need you to agree with me, I don’t need you to do anything. I just need you.

Saul: This is the best bottle of cheap wine I could find.
Kevin: Why not a really big celebratory killer of a bottle?
Saul: Because sometimes, with wine, you want to celebrate a small victory, if you can find a modest surprise from a sturdy grape that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg, you, my dear, are in sync with the rest of the world. Understand?
Tommy: I never understand you, Saul. But I like your wine.

Sarah: She’s stable, which is more than I can say for her mother.

Saul: You’ve got that look. That “Nora has a plan” look.

Saul: Sister, I appreciate your blessing deeply, but I didn’t ask for it, and I don’t need it.

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