Ray Quote #378
Quote from Ray in The Letter
Frank: "Dear Marie. This letter has been a long time coming."
Marie: Oh, it must be a thank-you note.
Frank: Oh, yeah? [chuckles]
Ray: Dad, give it to me.
Marie: No, no, no, no. What does it say?
Frank: "For eight years now, I've held my tongue and never told you how hurtful and destructive your behavior can sometimes be."
Robert: Oh, My God.
Ray: I have to go.
Marie: Sit. Sit down.
Ray: Look, Ma, this is between you and Debra. You should go over there and read that yourself, and let me out.
Everybody Loves Raymond Quotes
‘The Letter’ Quotes
Quote from Frank
Marie: We have no secrets in this family. Keep reading, Frank.
Frank: With pleasure. "Just because we are family, and happen also to be neighbors does not give you the right to constantly interfere in every aspect of my life..." [Frank laughs, covers it with a cough] "...from raising my children to my choice of liquid fabric softener."
Ray: I want you guys to know right now that Debra has a drinking problem.
Marie: Keep reading.
Ray: Come on, Dad.
Frank: Stop it. "I'm sure you don't even realize when you're being overbearing, critical, and intrusive." ls this a petition? Where do I sign?
Quote from Debra
Debra: Ray, I can't keep blaming her for everything if I've never been honest with her and I have never actually told her how she makes me feel when she does the things she does.
Ray: But you don't put that in writing! Oh, no, no! If it's in writing, then you can't deny it! You can't say things like: "You didn't hear me right," or, "l didn't say that. You must have misunderstood" because there it is in writing!
Debra: You know, if it were up to you, you'd have me do nothing.
Ray: Hey, let's not underestimate nothing.
Debra: Ray, I'm not spending the rest of my life this way with your mother saying she's sorry that you ever married me.
Ray: What? She's never said that!
Debra: She doesn't have to say it to say it. Everything she does says it.
Ray: Like what?
Debra: Like when she rewashes the kids' clothes.
Ray: Okay.
Debra: And then she rewashes the kids.
Ray: Look, all that stuff my mom does, that's how she helps.
Debra: No, no, Ray. That's how she criticizes. Only good can come from this letter, and I'm doing it.
Quote from Marie
Debra: See, Ray? That letter actually made your mother and I closer.
Ray: I told you not to send it.
Debra: You don't understand. We had to have that blowout, to get past it. Now that we did the letter, and it's behind us, we can move on.
[meanwhile:]
Marie: Frank, what's Debra's letter doing in the garbage?
Frank: You read it already.
Marie: You don't throw this away. Not ever. [puts it in a drawer] Not ever. [locks the drawer]