Grand Avenue (1996 TV Movie)

Sheila Tousey: Mollie

Quotes 

• Alice : What about the social workers?

  Mollie : What about 'em? They got 'em in Santa Rosa just like they got 'em on the rez. For all I know they got 'em on the goddamn moon.

  Justine : They would if we was there.

• Mollie : [looking the dress she wore at her partner's funeral]  Oh god! I meet him in it and bury him in it.

• Mollie : Ugh, don't listen to that old time Indian doctor shit. Look what it did for Sheldon's father.

  Sheldon : Ain't got a father no more.

  Mollie : Yeah honey I know.

• Anna : Indians. We're Indians Mollie. So much shit happens to us in our lives we get used to it.

  Mollie : No shit.

  Anna : Forget how to feel good. Maybe never knew how. I mean that's why we expect the worst.

• Mollie : What'd you say your name was?

  Carlos : Carlos Juan Maria DeJesus Cortez Evaca El Tercero.

  [laughs] 

• Mollie : Can I see it?

  [Alice goes to her bag and pulls out a basket] 

  Mollie : Goddamn my eyes. This is really a tight weave. You did this, all by yourself? I don't know much but... well, I know the old people used to always try for a tight weave. My Auntie used to say that. You know this is nice Alice, people make a lot of money making those things.

  [looks at Justine curiously] 

  Justine : I'm taking up tennis.

• Mollie : My daughter loved flowers. She loved giving 'em to people. I don't think... I don't think I showed her enough love.

  Sherman : We don't gotta show all the time. Some of us ain't good at showing. Don't mean others can't see.

  Mollie : You think she sees?

  Sherman : Yeah I do.

  Mollie : How do you know?

• Sheldon : Is Justine where dad is?

  Mollie : Yeah.

  Sheldon : Can they see us?

  Mollie : I guess.

  Sheldon : Are they like... in the stars?

  Mollie : Yeah. It's up there like that but it's all flowers. It's all flowers and happy like, that place.

  Sheldon : Must be lots of people there.

  Mollie : Yeah. Like your grandma and her mom, and her mom, and all the way back.

  Sheldon : Wow that's lots.

  Mollie : Yeah.

  Sheldon : And they're all like that? Happy?

  Mollie : Yeah.

  Sheldon : Then we better be happy and not sad. 'Cause if we're sad and Justine sees us then she'll be sad. And she shouldn't be right?

  Mollie : That's right. You're right.

• Justine : Who cares?

  Mollie : What'd you say? Answer me Justine!

  Sheldon : She said 'who cares'.

  Mollie : Oh. Maybe I should say that about them huh? Why should I give a shit about either one of yah?

  [to Alice and Justine] 

  Justine : Don't start on her! She shot that gun to save my life. All you care about is your fucking feelings!

• Steven : You're not the only who's hurting you know that?

  Mollie : Yeah I suppose everyone should feel sorry for you!

  Steven : I'm not talking about me! What I did is done. I'm talking about Justine.

  Mollie : Justine ain't none of your business.

  [walks away] 

  Steven : Yes she is!

  [grabs Mollie and makes her face him] 

  Steven : She's not a secret anymore! I'm her father and she knows it and nothing you can say or do is gonna change that no matter how much you hate me.

  Mollie : Fuck you!

  [tries hitting Steven] 

  Steven : Yeah! Is that gonna help you think!

  [grabs Molly] 

  Mollie : Fuck you!

  [begins crying uncontrollably] 

  Steven : Then go ahead! Go ahead!

  [holds Molly as she sobs] 

  Steven : I'm sorry. We have to find a way to talk to each other.

• Justine : You bitch! You goddamn whore you ruined everything you!

  [shoves her plate against the wall] 

  Justine : Why didn't you tell me! Why didn't you tell that Steven Toms was my father?

  [stomps out] 

  Mollie : That son-of-a-bitch!

  [runs out] 

  Sheldon : Who... who's her father?

• Alice : No.

  Mollie : What'd you say?

  Alice : I said no. Cause it's not just you're problem moving. It's all of our problem! Everytime you do something it's our problem! You run and take off, we go scrapping along behind you! No. We're not moving!

• Mollie : I don't know... sometimes I feel like... I ain't scared no more. You know? I mean, jesus christ what else could happen right? The worst already has. But then I see the empty chair at the table. I open up the closet and see her clothes. And I just sink all over again. Maybe in time I'll get better at pulling myself up.

• Mollie : I got it Alice. It's okay. Get started on that damn geometry so you're not up all hours of the night. Go on. Maybe I'll get Sherman to help out with something.

  Sherman : Maybe.

  [after Alice tries to start dinner]