The Butcher's Wife

Leo Lemke:
My wife is going off the deep end... a short trip for her.

Marina Lemke:
Folks call me Marina and I'm a clairvoyant.

Robyn Graves:
Why do we waste our time with men!

Grace:
[who is a lesbian] Not all of us do.

Leo Lemke:
[reading grafetti on window] We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars... Quotation from Oscar Wilde's Lady Windmere's Fan, Act 3, line 305.

Marina Lemke:
Love is the leap that won't be denied.

Leo Lemke:
Love's made a young man of me.

Marina Lemke:
Destiny has a way of just working itself out.

Marina Lemke:
Love is waiting for you behind a friendly face.

Dr. Alex Tremor:
[at the end of an argument] And I told you I'm uncomfortable with the term shrink.

Robyn Graves:
*Shrink*!

Dr. Alex Tremor:
Can we talk about this rationally?

Robyn Graves:
No. Can you fight like a man instead of a shrink?

Marina Lemke:
It's beautiful!

Leo Lemke:
It's vandalism!

Dr. Alex Tremor:
Did you forget our appointment?

Eugene:
I got a job now. I don't need a shrink anymore.

Marina Lemke:
Eugene, honey, I don't think he likes being called that.

Eugene:
I'm just a troubled kid, Doc.

Trendoid:
I need veal chops. Lots of them. Now. [Marina hands her package] What's this?

Marina Lemke:
Veal chops. Lots of them. Now.

Leo Lemke:
*Wow*.

Marina Lemke:
Well, what I say and what people hear aren't always the same thing. Don't you find that in your calling, Doctor?

Marina Lemke:
That boy's tongue is long enough to cut his throat.

Eugene:
I was just gonna say that.

Marina Lemke:
What's meant to be just can't be changed.

Dr. Alex Tremor:
We're supposed to relax and have fun. God damn it.

Dr. Alex Tremor:
No, no, no, I'm always interested when my friends show early signs of dimensia praecox.

Robyn Graves:
[as Harper on TV] [gunshot] Oh, oh! Oh, Chauncey! Chauncey! I told you one of us would end up hurt. [pause] Why does everything I touch... die?

Molly:
It's the gun, sweetheart. [turns off TV set] The *gun*!

Dr. Alex Tremor:
How can I help you, Leo?

Leo Lemke:
I don't need your help. I'm perfectly normal.

Marina Lemke:
You know, you don't know zip about love or life, Doctor. I don't need you strewing your learning all over me.

Dr. Alex Tremor:
[talking to self in mirror, shaving] You ended up skating in the park witha patient. It's class countertransferance. You allowed her to manipulate you into a vulnerable - nevermind unprofessional - situation where she controlled you. This is freshman psychology, Alex. [cuts chin] Oh, oh, good! Oh, good! Good! Dr. Tremor, don't blow a graet career on a cute piece of ass. You keep your dick in your pants, your id in check, and you remember we have a mission in this world.

Stella Keefover:
I think I really owe this one to that psychic.

Dr. Alex Tremor:
I thought we dealt with that.

Stella Keefover:
Don't worry, it's not like I'm cured or anything.

Dr. Alex Tremor:
Good. Well, not good...

Grace:
Alex thinks I'm insane.

Robyn Graves:
It's his favorite diagnosis.

Marina Lemke:
I'll be the one who's gonna decide who my husband should marry!

Dr. Alex Tremor:
Can't you see how dangerous you are?

Marina Lemke:
You say that listening to your heart and trusting what you feel, is that what you're calling dangerous? You know what, I hope I am contagious 'cause life isn't about your damn books and theories. You know what, life is life, and it's messy, and it's complicated, andyou know what it takes guts! [hits with pillow] That's not something you're gonna find in any book. And you know what, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it's crazy.