- Maurice: Secrets and lies! We're all in pain! Why can't we share our pain? I've spent my entire life trying to make people happy, and the three people I love the most in the world hate each other's guts, and I'm in the middle! I can't take it anymore!
- Cynthia: But sweetheart, I can't be your mother!
- Hortense Cumerbatch: Why not?
- Cynthia: Well... look at me!
- Cynthia: I was stuck at home from the age of 10 looking after Maurice and your Granddad.
- Roxanne: Yeah, we know.
- Cynthia: Then I got saddled with you. That was my downfall, darling.
- Roxanne: I didn't ask to be born.
- Cynthia: No, and I never asked to have you neither.
- Roxanne: Well, you should have thought about that before you dropped your knickers!
- Monica Purley: I'm having milk. Not in a wine glass. Give me a highball. You don't put milk in a wine glass.
- Maurice: My dad never said a word about my mum after she died.
- Monica Purley: That's men for you.
- Maurice: I hated him for it. He must have been in real pain. Maybe just couldn't share it. I didn't know what I felt. I still don't.
- Maurice: Is that a suit?
- Monica Purley: It came as a combination.
- Maurice: They go together?
- Monica Purley: Well, if you think they do, they do, and if you think they don't, they don't.
- Dionne: I don't wanna hear her and Norbert havin' it off. I don't want her to know who I'm havin' it off with, and I don't want her to see me drunk. Don't want her to know nothing about me.
- Hortense Cumerbatch: Maybe that's because you're frightened that when you look at her you can see yourself in 20 years time.
- Dionne: [rolls her eyes] Please.
- Hortense Cumerbatch: You can tell a lot about people from lookin' at their eyes.
- Maurice: That's true.
- Monica Purley: Can you?
- Jane: Windows to your soul.
- Cynthia: That's a nice way of puttin' it, Jane.
- Jane: It's true though, ain't it.
- Cynthia: He knows where I am if he wants me. He'd have had us up there to see it by now, I expect, if it weren't for her. Toffy-nosed cow.
- Stuart: I can still do it! I've still got an eye. They can't teach you that. I'm still a photographer!
- Stuart: You know what it's like, Maurice. You sweat your balls off for years and try and make people happy. And what d'you get back? Nothing!
- Hortense Cumerbatch: D'you like Italian food?
- Cynthia: Yeah. I eat anything, me. Chinese, kebabs, the lot!
- Monica Purley: Having a steak, are you, Cynthia?
- Cynthia: Yes. Thank you, Monica.
- Monica Purley: That'll put hairs on your chest.
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