Brothers & Sisters

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

Rebecca: Sorry about interrupting the mid-morning booty call. Maybe you should put a sock on the door or something.
Holly: Saul was just helping me with the coffee machine.
Rebecca: Oh, is that what the senior set is calling it these days?

Sarah: Intensive couples counseling didn’t work, but a good dinner should fix everything.

Saul: Come on. Haven’t we learned anything this year?

Justin: Wow, you must have really won her over. She does not dig up those embarrassing stories for just anybody.

Justin: They’re meeting their only daughter’s recovering drug addict boyfriend. I don’t think senior prom is going to be the topic of choice.

Kevin: Wow, I’m a friend.
Chad: You’re a friend in italics.

Chad: I’ve never seen you so litigious. It’s kind of hot.

Justin: What are we supposed to say, “Oh, wow, we have a sister now?”

Nora: Your father made you president of our family business, Sarah, not our family.

Kevin: You better hope that this family finds a way to repair itself, because if this does any lasting damage, I’m holding you responsible.

Kitty: You know, I have told you every time that I sleep with somebody I work with, and you can’t tell me that we have a sister?

Justin’s sponsor: This whole thing is textbook you. I know you, Justin. You didn’t become an army medic for nothing. You can’t stand to see people in pain. And right now, you and your family are suffering. There’s nothing you can do to make it go away.

Kitty: I’ve been grieving for a father I don’t even know. And I was just starting to get all happy.
Robert: I wouldn’t let this destroy that. You hold on to what’s good. What makes you happy?
Kitty: You make me happy.

Tommy: You want to control everything, you thrive off of control, but this is out of your hands.
Sarah: Spare me, Tommy. I already paid for therapy. I really don’t need your amateur psychoanalysis.

Rebecca: Mom, do you remember that Christmas when I was 8, and I had my tonsils taken out. and then after the surgery your friend Bill came by to visit and he gave me that doll with the long red hair. Did Bill really think that a doll would make up for abandoning me? What was it, like a “Sorry for being a deadbeat dad” gift?
Holly: No, please, let me explain.
Rebecca: There’s an explanation for why you lied to me for 20 years? You said that Bill was just your friend, and just kind of left out the part about him being your boyfriend for like two decades and my father?
Holly: Honey, oh God, it is complicated.
Rebecca: It seems pretty simple to me, Mom. You were willing to be sloppy seconds for some rich jerk with a wife and kids, and my dad didn’t want to fess up to having a bastard child with his mistress because he didn’t want to risk his Norman Rockwell life. Do I have it straight, Mom?

Chad: You promised you wouldn’t do anything
Kevin: I’m sorry, Chad. I come from a long line of people who are incapable of leaving well enough alone.

Kevin: So where do we go from here?
Chad: I’ll tell you where we won’t go. Out to the movies, out to dinner, shopping, hiking, the gym.
Kevin: I’m all for cutting out the gym.

Holly: As a mother, how could you be that cruel? My daughter is crushed. Her whole identity, everything that we had, our relationship, has been decimated, and for what? Out of spite? So that you could get even with me?
Sarah: But I just told her the truth.
Holly: I was planning on telling her everything on my timetable, in my way. It was not your place.
Sarah: My place? Oh, you are unbelievable. It wasn’t your place to have an affair with a married man. It wasn’t your place to have my father’s child. It certainly wasn’t your place to come crawling out of the woodwork and demand a piece of our family business. But none of that stopped you, did it. You’ve done nothing but cause my family pain, so if your perfect little world has come crashing down around you because the truth has finally come out, you know what, join the damn club!

Holly: Don’t you ever call me again.
Saul: I’m sorry you feel that way.
Holly: Not sorry enough.

Sarah: You hold me to a different standard than anyone else. That’s not fair.
Nora: Yes, you’re right. It’s not fair. I just always felt this connection with you. You raise a boy and you don’t expect them to tell you anything. You’re lucky if they acknowledge you on their way out the door. But you alway confided in me. I felt you trusted me to handle whatever came along. I never had that relationship with my mother. I always thought I had it with you.
Sarah: Mom, we do have that relationship. The last thing in the world I wanted to do was hurt you.
Nora: I know. But that doesn’t mean you didn’t.

Justin: It’s so bizarre. We live like 15 minutes away. In L.A., that’s like neighbors.

Justin: What if we had met, if we …
Rebecca: Oh, the Greek tragedy of it all.

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