Jill Quote #580
Quote from Jill in A Marked Man
Jill: What are you doing?
Tim: Dusting.
Jill: In a drawer?
Tim: Very dusty in here. Look at this.
Jill: You are searching their rooms. I'm not gonna stand by and let you do that. That is an invasion of the boys' privacy. My mother used to do that to me when I was growing up. I really, really, really hated it. The way she did it was so sneaky too.
Tim: What did she do? Maybe there's something she did we could use.
Jill: No. It was really stupid. I'd catch her looking in my desk drawer and she'd pretend that she was putting my underwear away. No, if I start searching their rooms, I might as well turn right into my mother.
Tim: [groans] Don't even joke about that.
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Quote from Al
Al: You know, this was not easy for me to bring up. And I turned that store upside down looking for that darn thing and the fact is it was there when you guys came in and when you left... it was gone.
Tim: Well, I know kids steal things, but my boys steal from you and Harry? Come on.
Al: Things like that happen. Let me tell you a story about my uncle's grocery store. I was holding my mother's hand...
Tim: And this was yesterday?
Al: I was seven years old. And she went off to look for the children's appetite suppressant... And... on the shelf there was a cookie. And I stole it and I ate it.
Tim: OK, so you're saying you think one of my kids ate that knife?
Quote from Wilson
Tim: You how l look at it, the stronger the punishment, the less likelihood is the kid will ever do it again.
Wilson: Well, Tim, many people subscribe to that theory, but I'm reminded of the great Nietzsche.
Tim: Wow. What a linebacker. Green Bay Packers.
Wilson: No. No, no, no, no. Not Ray Nitschke. I'm talking about Friedrich Nietzsche, the philosopher.
Tim: Sure. Freddy. Yeah.
Wilson: Yes. Nietzsche said that punishment often increases the feelings of estrangement and strengthens the power of resistance.
Tim: I think what influenced me more was Fisk.
Wilson: Oh, I didn't know you were a fan of John Fiske, the English historian.
Tim: I'm not. I'm talking about Carlton Fisk, the White Sox catcher. He said if you get caught stealing, throw him out.
Quote from Tim
Jill: I hate when you do this. The kids do something, you overreact...
Tim: No, you underreact.
Jill: I do not underreact. You go overboard.
Tim: Then you go underboard.
Jill: There's no such word as underboard.