Blanche Quote #814

Quote from Blanche in That Old Feeling

Blanche: Oh! I didn't tell you my really good news.
Dorothy: Better than the dead mother-in-law?
Blanche: Yes. George's younger brother Jamie is flying in tomorrow from Charleston to help settle my part of the estate.
Rose: You and Jamie were close?
Blanche: Well, we were classmates in high school. I thought he was cute, but of course I could never date someone from my own class. Well, I'd been dating seniors since I was 12. I had my reputation to consider.
Dorothy: Shut up, Ma.
Blanche: After George and I were married, I began to realize that Jamie had this yen for me. Poor boy. Trapped in a seething cauldron of forbidden passion for his gorgeous sister-in-law. There were nights when he actually bayed at the moon. But he finally realized that I was totally committed to George, so he threw himself into a marriage that was doomed to failure. After 20 years they realized they had nothing in common. I can't wait for him to get here and see how good I look.
Dorothy: You know, Blanche, Jamie may not see this as a happy reunion. I mean, after all, he just lost his mother.
Blanche: And I just ran out of gas, but life goes on.

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 ‘That Old Feeling’ Quotes

Quote from Dorothy

Blanche: Oh, girls, I'm so sorry to be late. I ran out of gas on the way home. It was just horrible. Nobody would stop to help me. This could never have happened in the Old South. What has become of chivalry, when men used to open doors for you, pull out your chair, tip their hat, kiss your hand, help you down out of your carriage, leave calling cards on little silver salvers?
Dorothy: So how far back do you want to go, Blanche? Do you still want to be able to vote?

Quote from Rose

Rose: Don't you think it's crazy that Blanche is actually gonna marry Jamie?
Dorothy: Why? They practically grew up together. Rose, they've known each other most of their lives so it's very comfortable. He's like an old friend.
Rose: But he's her late husband's brother. I remember back in St. Olaf when Inga Engstran married her late husband's brother Lars, and the whole town was shocked. Of course, that could've been because at the time Inga was on trial for her late husband's dismemberment.
Dorothy: It was probably a factor.
Rose: The trial went on for months. Attorney's fees cost her an arm and a leg.
Sophia: Rose, get to where they steal the brain out of the dead body and sew it into your head.
Rose: So anyway, she got a suspended sentence.
Sophia: They let her go?
Rose: No, they hanged her.
Sophia: I'm going to sleep. I don't know how long I've got, but I deserve better company in my final years.

Quote from Sophia

Sophia: In my village in Sicily we had a custom. If your mother-in-law died, you were forced to wear a hair shirt, eat dirt and pound your head on a rock. Anything to keep you from laughing.