Brothers & Sisters

As a follow-up to the recap, here are some memorable lines from the episode “Mistakes Were Made Part 1.” Did I miss your favorites? Add them in the comments.

Justin: Yeah, I’m spelling the word “carpenter” on your back with my tongue because it’s such a sexy frickin’ word. You are the worst “Guess the Lick Word” player I’ve ever played with.
Tyler: No, I’m good. It’s just that your tongue has bad penmanship.

Kevin: He hasn’t called me back. He’s either still mad at me or on an Arctic expedition.
Kitty: Well, my guess is that he’s still mad, given the way you told him to shut his fat face in front of the entire family.

Kevin: As if you’re some relationship genius. You’re the lying whore of the family.
Kitty: And you’re the stuck-up bitch.

Kevin: I just wanted to see him.
Kitty: So you offered to purchase him? Oh, Kevin, you don’t want a boyfriend, you want a blender.

Justin: I just got a registered letter from the Army.
Kevin: About what? What does it say? Saying what? What does it say, Justin?
Justin: They want me back.

Justin: There’s a good break at Zuma. Wanna come?
William: Actually, I’ve got this thing I’ve gotta do called work.
Justin: Dad, there’s six foot swells. You can show up to the office all windswept and salty. It’ll be great. Chicks dig it.

William: You remind me of me when I was younger.
Justin: Like all handsome and good looking?
William: Yeah, something like that.

Kevin: So, you have any plans for lunch?
Scotty: Lunch? Us?
Kevin: Yeah, I thought maybe we could celebrate with lunch. You could even buy now, since you’re so flush. Since we’re sort of equals.
Scotty: Me having money makes us equals.
Kevin: Only in terms of …
Scotty: I thought what makes us equals is we’re human beings, but oh yeah, that’s right, you’re not a human being, I remember now. You’re a Martian.
Kevin: Come on, Scotty.
Scotty: You know, I usually don’t like to admit things like this, Kevin, but I was completely wrong about you. (Hands back check)
Kevin: What are you doing?
Scotty: Give the plaintiffs my regards, but tell them I don’t want or need their reward.
Kevin: Come on.
Scotty: It took me a long time to figure out how much I’m worth, and how it has nothing to do with money or anything people can point to. It’s taken you, let’s see, two months to make me feel worthless. Congratulations.

Justin: Tell me what to do.
Kevin: Just drink some water and breathe.

Kevin: We can apply for an exemption, but they’re mostly only giving them to people who are in school or supporting families.
Justin: So because I’m a bellboy, I have to go to Baghdad.

Nora: I know the recent revelations have not left much of your father’s memory to be careful about, but there might still be a few husks around.

Nora: Kitty, I do not require a lesson in sexual propriety from someone who conducts her personal life as if she were in a French game show.

Nora: I just don’t want to shock my children too much.
Kitty: If you met someone, anyone, even a street person, even, upon whom you could regularly unleash your enthusiasm and your poopy emerald smoothies, I think there is nobody in this family who’s going to complain.
Nora: Here, drink this, it might make you nice.

Kitty: Mom already blames me for sending him away to die once before. and that fight nearly cost me my entire family. I won’t do it again, not to me, and I won’t do it to him.

Nora: It’s been its own perfect little hell finding out about all his betrayals, but when it was good he made me feel like this whole world, like this whole big beautiful world, was lucky to have me, little me. Some trick, huh. Sometimes it hurts so much to remember. I think it would hurt even worse to forget.

Sarah: I might not be your mom, Gabe, but you are my son.

Nora: Alright, it happened. I slept with him. Do you want me to feel ashamed?
Kitty: Is that my only choice?

Nora: I always told you kids, glass jumps! It could be from years ago or all the way across the house. It’s impossible stuff.

Sarah: You can condemn my whole family to bankruptcy to stop the truth about your life from coming out, but I can’t call you names? Are you kidding me?

Sarah: The only reason you would work so hard at trying to keep this from coming out when the stakes are so high is that you haven’t told her either.

Holly: I got pregnant. We had always been really careful, I still don’t even know how it happened. But I knew your father well enough to know that if he knew I was having his child, he would be compelled to leave you all and I couldn’t have that. So I told him it was someone else’s, a director on a movie, a one night stand. But I never asked him for anything, not a cent, not a favor, and Rebecca had to live her whole life thinking her father was a nobody, a mistake. But it kept you from losing him, and it kept me with a man who still thought, in his own way, that he was a hero. Because he never would have forgiven himself for leaving you, or for deserting his daughter. And I don’t know how I’m going to tell her that I have been lying all these years.
Sarah: I don’t care what you do, just stay the hell away from my family. (To Saul) You’ve got a decision to make, old man.

Kevin: Hi, Scotty, it’s Kevin. Your least favorite Martian. Look, I’ve been on your planet for 34 years and I still get a lot of things wrong, like about money, work, people and life and love and everything, Anyway, I just wanted you to know I think you’re amazing and funny and cute as hell, and I just hope that some day, maybe, I don’t know, three Martian years from now, ’cause our years are longer than yours, maybe I could be worthy of your human love and respect, whether we’re together or not. That’s all.
Scotty: Hi.
Kevin: Hi. Please tell me this is the part where you let me off the hook.
Scotty: It’s not.
Kevin: Okay.
Scotty: This is the part where I say thank you, and could you please send me the check.

William: The world outside this house we can’t control, not with bombs, not with diplomacy, not even with love, we know that now. The best thing we can possibly do now is just appreciate one another right here, right now, together. This family is the only sure thing in life, always was, always will be.

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