Brothers & Sisters

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

McCallister: He hates me. In his last editorial he said I wasn’t as smart as Hilary Clinton, but I was prettier.

McCallister: Stop calling me senator every five seconds. It’s oddly disconcerting.

McCallister: This is the field office of the junior senator from California, not the lunchroom at Malibu High.

McCallister: We’re making a better America.
Kitty: You sound like a bumper sticker.
McCallister: A good one? Because that’s one of the slogans we’re considering for the campaign. “We’re making a better America.” What do you think?
Kitty: I think it’s sub-moronic.
McCallister: Really? Because Noreen ran a field poll and America agreed. It scored in the 80s.
Kitty: America is sometimes wrong.
McCallister: I think the Democrats are already using that one.

Nora: You have a certain something that your other siblings lack. An aesthetic.
Kevin: That means I’m gay.

McCallister. You didn’t read the poll.
Kitty: No, I accidentally crumpled it up into a tiny little ball.

Joe: I won’t pay for William’s crime.

Nora: When I think about your father and how much torture he must have gone through holding all those secrets so close for so long.

Tommy: I definitely think I saw a penis go by a minute ago. Right there! What’s that?
Doctor: That’s a thumb.
Tommy: A big thumb.

Kitty: My hair is too blond or my clothes are too expensive or maybe I’m just too damn thin!

Nora: Why didn’t you go in?
Justin: Because Kitty was yelling at the senator, Mom!

Nora: You were yelling at him?
Kitty: And you’re right, it’s none of your business.
Nora: I just hope it was about funding for the arts.

Kitty: I can’t believe you got Tyler back. It’s unbelievable. You spend your whole life being forgiven and making girls forget.

Kitty, to Justin: I liked you so much better when you were stupid.

Chad: Is love easy for you?
Kevin: I would say I basically screw it up, or become wildly interested in the chronically, hugely unavailable.

Kevin: This is the greatest friggin’ restaurant on earth, isn’t it.

Sarah: We used to be something and I don’t know what’s happened. Can you tell me?
Joe: Everybody used to be something, Sarah. I already have one failed marriage under my belt, I’m doing the best that I can. (to therapist) Why the hell can’t you help us? You sit there doing nothing! We’re drowning!

McCallister: I was twice as aloof as you. I kicked your ass in aloof.

Kitty: I’ve got to make Hair Boy look presidential.
McCallister: Senator Hair Boy, please.

Sarah: I think you’re crazy to go into business with her, but I’ll watch your back. And I’ll drink your wine, probably all of it.

Rebecca: You’re a little young for my mom, aren’t you?
Tommy: We’re business associates.
Rebecca: Oh, of course.

Kevin: How many Michelles have their been? How many Kevins?
Chad: We know I have a history. I can’t change that.
Kevin: What a club. Schmucky men and women who lose their minds around you and behave like helpless morons.

Chad: What’s your case about?
Kevin: What they’re all about. Lies and broken promises.

Tommy: Does anybody think it’s too early for another William?
Nora: Well, the world could always use another William Walker.

Therapist: There are no shortcuts, Sara, in life or in love. Its pain must be felt. The alternative is much worse. It’s what makes us special. It makes us beautiful. It makes us worthy. The pain of how we love. But that pain is accompanied by something else, isn’t it? Hope? With your pain there is hope, and that is where you are. Somewhere between agony and optimism and prayer. So, you’re human. You’re alive. And that is what we have.

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