- Mary Louise Wright: You know, the other day, I was with some friends, and, um, their sons were not a patch on your dad
- [LAUGHS]
- Mary Louise Wright: Not a patch... Just... I felt so angry.
- [YELLING]
- Mary Louise Wright: Angry!
- [QUIETLY]
- Mary Louise Wright: You know, that their mediocre, spindly, pudgy, balding, middle-management sons... Still alive... And my Perry...
- [WHISPERING]
- Mary Louise Wright: My Perry... I just... felt just... I wanted to scream. So you know what I did?
- Max Wright: What?
- Mary Louise Wright: I did scream... Wanna hear?
- [CHUCKLES]
- Mary Louise Wright: Okay.
- [SCREAMS]
- Celeste Wright: Oh!... Oh! Mary Louise! Mary Louise! Mary Louise, please.
- Mary Louise Wright: What, my grief is too loud for you?
- Madeline Martha Mackenzie: How are you?
- Mary Louise Wright: I can't complain... Actually, I can. My son is dead.
- Madeline Martha Mackenzie: But Celeste tells me that you continue to be so helpful with her and the boys and...
- Mary Louise Wright: She should just get a proper housekeeper. You're very short.
- Madeline Martha Mackenzie: [SCOFFS] Excuse me?
- Mary Louise Wright: I don't mean it in a negative way.
- Madeline Martha Mackenzie: Oh.
- [CHUCKLES]
- Mary Louise Wright: Maybe I do. I find little people to be untrustworthy
- [CHUCKLES]
- Mary Louise Wright: My apologies... It's just that I'm... I pride myself on being a very good judge of character, but you have always presented such a difficult read. You know, you seem like a nice person. Loving. But also, you strike me as a wanter.
- Madeline Martha Mackenzie: A... A wanter?
- Mary Louise Wright: Mm. You know... there are people in... in life who content themselves with what they have, and then there are others who just... just want.
- Madeline Martha Mackenzie: I'm not a wanter.
- Mary Louise Wright: Oh, you don't have to take it personally... Anyway, I'm a wanter myself. You know what I want? I want Perry back.
- Madeline Martha Mackenzie: Ed, this is the first day of school. We have to earn our good-mom badges all over again... Has she gotten fatter over the summer? Does she look older? These questions get asked, Ed,
- Dr. Amanda Reisman: Are you seeing anyone?
- Celeste Wright: No. That part of me is still dead, I suppose... First thing's first: get the boys' lives back on track, that's the priority.
- Dr. Amanda Reisman: Seeing their mom happy could help there.
- Celeste Wright: So, you're saying for my life to go on successfully, I need to be with a man?
- Dr. Amanda Reisman: No. But the freedom to be with one, maybe... You're still married, Celeste, and the husband is dead.