Ma Mary Quote #69

Quote from Ma Mary in The Affair

Mary: Pack it in! Look, when Gabriel was fixing the boiler, I brought him up a couple of cups of tea.
Gerry: Couple of dozen!
Mary: We got chatting.
Gerry: Jesus... Christ!
Mary: He told me that he was taking these night classes in English literature. He wants to do a degree. He convinced me to come along and check it out. That house was the tutor's house, Erin. There was eight other people there.
Erin: So why were you drinking wine, Mammy?
Mary: Because everybody was drinking wine. There was cheese as well.
Gabriel: Blue stuff. Stinking!
Mary: So stinking.

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Quote from Orla

Erin: How's it going? [Clare gives a "so-so" hand gesture] You're really not gonna talk for 24 hours?
Orla: Yeah, that's tough. You're better off not breathing.
Erin: Would she be, Orla? Or... would she be dead?
Orla: It's not doing me any harm.
Erin: What?
Orla: I'm not breathing for Children in Need.
Erin: That's happening now, is it, you're currently not breathing?
Orla: Correct.
Erin: Grand.

Quote from Orla

Erin: That Eileen Rafferty story did not add up, girls.
Michelle: Do you think your ma's getting plumbed by the plumber?
Orla: Well, I never trusted her, not since the day I met her.
Erin: She's your auntie, Orla. The day you met her you were a new-born baby.
Orla: Exactly.

Quote from Aunt Sarah

Gabriel: Um... [notices Mary's book] Ah! Emily Bronte. Wow, what a genius.
Aunt Sarah: We'll have to take your word for it, Gabriel, for we don't know her.