Carol quotes

View Quote Carol Aird: You miss Richard?
Therese Belivet: No. I haven't thought about him all day. Or of home, really.

View Quote Harge Aird: What are you gonna do? Are you going to stay here with Abby over Christmas? You're going to stay with the shopgirl in there? Huh? What are you gonna do Carol? Huh? What is the plan?
Carol Aird: Stop it.
Harge Aird: Dammit. I put nothing past women like you, Carol.
Carol Aird: You married a woman like me.

View Quote McKinley Motel Manager: Our standard rooms come equipped with stereophonic console radios, or we do have the Presidential Suite available for a very attractive rate.
Carol Aird: Two standard rooms should be fine.
Therese Belivet: Why not take the Presidential Suite? [Carol turns to look at Therese] I mean, if the rate's attractive.

View Quote Therese Belivet: Have you ever been in love with a boy?
Richard Semco: No.
Therese Belivet: But you've heard of it.
Richard Semco: Of course. I mean, have I heard of people like that? Sure.
Therese Belivet: I don't mean people like that. I just mean two people who fall in love with each other. Say, a boy and a boy. Out of the blue.
Richard Semco: I don't know anyone like that. But I'll tell you this: there's always some reason for it, in the background.
Therese Belivet: So you don't think it could just... happen to somebody. To anybody.
Richard Semco: No. I don't. What are you saying? Are you in love with a girl?
Therese Belivet: No.

View Quote Therese Belivet: I wanna know. I think. I mean, I wanna ask you things. But I'm not sure that you want that. [on telephone]
Carol Aird: [crying] Ask me. Things. Please.

View Quote Therese Belivet: So I'm sure you thought it was a man who sent you back your gloves.
Carol Aird: I did. Thought it might be the man in the ski department.
Therese Belivet: I'm sorry.
Carol Aird: No, I'm delighted. I doubt very much if I'd have gone to lunch with him.

View Quote Therese Belivet: What town is this again? [the morning after they first made love]
Carol Aird: This? Waterloo. [laughs] Isn't that awful?

View Quote [calls Carol on the phone] Hello? Carol? [Carol remains silent, struggling with emotions, then hangs up] I miss you. I miss you.

View Quote I just take everything and I don't know anything. And I don't know what I want. How could I when all I ever do is say "Yes" to everything?

View Quote I never looked like that. [to Therese, admiring her nude body]

View Quote I never made you — I never asked you for anything. Maybe that's the problem. [to Richard as they break up]

View Quote I took what you gave willingly. It's not your fault, Therese.

View Quote I'm no martyr. I have no clue what is best for me. But I do know, and I feel it in my bones, what is best for my daughter. Now, I want visits with her, Harge. I don't care if they're supervised. I just want them to be regular. [puts on coat, preparing to leave attorney's office] There was a time when I would have done almost anything. I would have locked myself away to keep Rindy with me. What use am I to her, to us, if I'm living against my own grain?

View Quote Just when you think it can't get any worse, you run out of cigarettes.

View Quote My angel. Flung out of space. [to Therese when they pause to look at each other during sex for the first time]