Big Love quotes
53 total quotesSarah: [to Bill] It hurts to see you lie, Dad. I hate that about this life. Watching you and Mom hide, all of us having to hide.
Sarah: What's it like being married?
Rhonda: It's a pre-marriage placement. That's what it's called now, to get around the law until I'm 16.
[Sarah looks horrified.]
Rhonda: I wasn't forced! [smugly] The other sister-wives hate me because old Roman likes me best.
Sarah: Do you love him?
Rhonda: He's sweet to me. The greatest freedom we have is obedience.
Rhonda: It's a pre-marriage placement. That's what it's called now, to get around the law until I'm 16.
[Sarah looks horrified.]
Rhonda: I wasn't forced! [smugly] The other sister-wives hate me because old Roman likes me best.
Sarah: Do you love him?
Rhonda: He's sweet to me. The greatest freedom we have is obedience.
Sarah: Why can't we just hire a babysitter like everyone else?
Barb: Because we're not everyone else.
Barb: Because we're not everyone else.
Wanda: [to Barb, about Frank] I wouldn't let him in your house if I were you. He makes Joey crazy, Bill hates him, and he doesn't pee in the toilet.
Nicki: Bill's not very good about lifting the seat either.
Wanda: No, Nicki. He pees in the sink.
Nicki: Bill's not very good about lifting the seat either.
Wanda: No, Nicki. He pees in the sink.
[Bill comes home late at night and snuggles up to Margie in bed.]
Margie: [half asleep] Where's Nicki?
Bill: What??
Margie: It's Nicki's night. You gotta go.
[Bill sneaks through the house, across the backyard and up to Nicki's bedroom.]
Nicki: Honey, what are you doing here?
Bill: It's our night!
Nicki: It was. Didn't you get my message? See the Post-It?
Bill: Post-It?
Nicki: I traded with Barb.
Margie: [half asleep] Where's Nicki?
Bill: What??
Margie: It's Nicki's night. You gotta go.
[Bill sneaks through the house, across the backyard and up to Nicki's bedroom.]
Nicki: Honey, what are you doing here?
Bill: It's our night!
Nicki: It was. Didn't you get my message? See the Post-It?
Bill: Post-It?
Nicki: I traded with Barb.
[Nicki sneaks in on Barb and Margene talking; they don't hear her.]
Barb: Has she said anything to you about what she's wearing?
Margie: Nuh-uh.
Barb: Just try to get her to wear something a little more...I mean, she sticks out like a sore thumb.
Margie: Oh...
Barb: I don't want to hurt her feelings, but it's like walking into the Governor's mansion with a sign that says "Practicing Polygamist." She'll never listen to it coming from me, she'll think I'm attacking her. I mean, even just offer to do her hair.
Barb: Has she said anything to you about what she's wearing?
Margie: Nuh-uh.
Barb: Just try to get her to wear something a little more...I mean, she sticks out like a sore thumb.
Margie: Oh...
Barb: I don't want to hurt her feelings, but it's like walking into the Governor's mansion with a sign that says "Practicing Polygamist." She'll never listen to it coming from me, she'll think I'm attacking her. I mean, even just offer to do her hair.
[Talking about the Mother of the Year event.]
Rhonda: Why did they pick Barb? Is she more important than you two?
Margie: Uh, no.
Rhonda: Well, was there something lacking in you two?
Nicki: Only one person can be mother of the year. Teenie nominated Barb, so that's how it happened. Here.
[She hands Rhonda a sandwich.]
Rhonda: What is it?
Nicki: Breakfast. To go.
[Rhonda turns to walk away, then turns back to Nicki.]
Rhonda: You're irritable, Nicki. Try to find time for a nap this afternoon.
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Rhonda: Why did they pick Barb? Is she more important than you two?
Margie: Uh, no.
Rhonda: Well, was there something lacking in you two?
Nicki: Only one person can be mother of the year. Teenie nominated Barb, so that's how it happened. Here.
[She hands Rhonda a sandwich.]
Rhonda: What is it?
Nicki: Breakfast. To go.
[Rhonda turns to walk away, then turns back to Nicki.]
Rhonda: You're irritable, Nicki. Try to find time for a nap this afternoon.
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