Sophia Quote #1415

Quote from Sophia in Clinton Avenue Memoirs

Rose: How's Sophia?
Dorothy: I don't know. Today's her anniversary. She won't come out of her room. I've never seen her like this. She is really depressed.
Sophia: [upbeat] Adios! Everybody wave goodbye! I'm off to Brooklyn!
Blanche: Honey, what are you doing?
Sophia: I'm going back to the old neighborhood. The doctor said it would help if I stirred up some memories.
Dorothy: Ma, you can't go back there alone!
Sophia: No kidding. I'm 83. I walk to the driveway, it's a coin toss whether I get back. You're coming with me.
Dorothy: I am?
Sophia: What the hell? You paid! Look, I can deal with losing some of my memory. If I didn't have to remember what's-her-name over here, I wouldn't care. [Rose looks behind her] But Sal was the most important person in my life, and scrapbooks aren't doing the trick.

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 ‘Clinton Avenue Memoirs’ Quotes

Quote from Blanche

Rose: I should've known this was gonna happen. You should never work with friends. You're fired.
Blanche: You can't fire me. That's against the law. That's sex discrimination.
Rose: Oh. Well, I'll give you one more chance. Wait a minute! How is it sex discrimination?
Blanche: Well, that's what I was doing this afternoon when I didn't get this work done.

Quote from Sophia

Dorothy: OK, Ma, if this is what you really want to do...
Sophia: It's not what I want to do, it's what I have to do. Dorothy, today is my anniversary, and I barely remember getting married. You know, I hate getting old. You always seem to be losing something. First it's your eyesight. Then people are telling you to turn down the TV set when you can barely hear it. And you could live with that. But this? They're trying to take something from me that I just won't give. I can't let this happen, Dorothy. I can't lose my Sal. Not again.

Quote from Sophia

Dorothy: Ma. Ma, Mr. Hernandez has to go.
Man: [opens closet door] I'm meeting the wife and kids. We are going ice-skating.
Sophia: Dorothy! Oh, my God! Can you believe it?
Man: Hey, Puerto Ricans can ice-skate! Jeez!
Sophia: Dorothy! Dorothy, look! It's the carving. See? "Sal loves Sophia."
Dorothy: Oh, Ma!
Man: You're Sophia?
Sophia: That's right. And I remembered. I mixed up the rooms, but I remembered. Of course. I thought the carving was in the kitchen. Sal used to hang his salamis in here. Dorothy, I may be fading, but I'm still holding on to some of the big things.
Dorothy: Yeah, and you might get more back.
Sophia: "Might"? I insist! All I need is a little more spunk. Imagine finding that carving in here! Kitchen, bedroom, I knew it was a room I was good in!