Axl Quote #762
Quote from Axl in Hecks on a Train
Sue: It's true, Axl. I did apply to your school, but I'm sorry. I just love East Indiana so much. [Axl groans] I love the campus. I love the rotunda. They have a really good psychology department.
Axl: Ow! It's like acid in my ears!
Sue: See? I knew we should have told him right when I told you guys.
Axl: Oh, my God. You knew about this? You two supposed adults let this happen?
Frankie: All right, listen, when Sue told us, Dad and I called a family meeting. We decided there was no sense in telling you the news unless she got accepted.
Axl: You had a family meeting without me?!
Frankie: [sighs] All right. I know this is coming out of the blue, but if you really think about it, is this honestly that big a deal?
Axl: It's a huge deal! College is supposed to be the best four years of my life, and now two of those years are gonna be with Sue. I'll be at a party being awesome, and in walks Sue with her big tubey water head. This is the worst possible thing that could ever happen to a person!
Mike: I think your Aunt Edie might disagree with that.
Sue: Okay, stop freaking out, Axl. I'm probably not even gonna get in. They think I wanna shoot at cars.
Axl: Oh, no. They're gonna want another Heck. I'm like royalty up there. Well, guess what? She may be going there, but I'm not. I'm getting off this train and starting my new life in... Bear's Neck, South Dakota! That's where I'll be living out my life. I am outta here! Thanks for 20 crappy years!
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Brick: Do we have any details about the cause of Aunt Edie's death?
Mike: Just one. She was 96.
Brick: Interesting. Has anyone questioned Helen Riley? She was the perennial runner-up to Aunt Edie in the church pie contest.
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Brick: Are you okay?
Axl: No, Brick, I'm not. I killed Aunt Edie.
Brick: I knew it! No one just drops dead at 96.
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Axl: I didn't really kill her. Okay. Ugh. Look. Here's the thing. [sniffles] Ever since high school, whenever I had a test I wasn't ready for, or a paper due I didn't finish, I kinda used Aunt Edie to get out of it.
[flashback:]
Axl: Anyway, we just found out last night, so I think I'm gonna need a little more time on my philosophy paper.
Philosophy Professor: Of course. And just remember, Axl, it was your aunt's shell she left on Earth.
Axl: It was her shell. So, like, three extra weeks?
[present:]
Axl: Can't you see how guilty I feel about this?! If my hair wasn't such a perfect length, I could barely look at myself in the mirror. I used my aunt's life as a cheap excuse to get out of schoolwork, and by saying it so many times, I'm the reason she died. I killed her, Brick. I killed my aunt!