Thank you all for being here. I had this dream when I was little of a home where the door was open and friends could come and go and stay for dinner and talk. And everything would be lovely. Thank you all for giving me that.

Norma

Romero: I think you're beautiful.
Norma: You're drunk. You're not gonna like that you said that to me tomorrow.
Romero: Probably.

James: Norman, why do you care so much who your mother might be sleeping with? What does it mean that she could be attracted to someone? Does that take her away from you? Norman, do you want to sleep with her?
Norman: [straddles James and strangles him] How DARE you come into my house and say such an ugly thing to me!

Chick: Your dad was gonna do a run for me.
Dylan: A run of what?
Chick: Apparently nobody needs to know now that nobody's doing it.
Caleb: I'm sorry but things have changed. I don't want to take the risk anymore.
Dylan: How much this run pay?
Chick: After FICA and Social Security? $25,000.
Caleb: Hey Dylan, this run...
Chick: Guns.
Dylan: How risky?
Chick: It's gun running, so...on the running of guns...spectrum, it's relatively mild. I've been doing it for years.

Dylan: I found him in here in the middle of the night cooking breakfast.
Norma: Who doesn't want breakfast at some point in the middle of the night?!
Dylan: He was wearing your robe! And then he told me I needed to go wake up my brother, Norman, for breakfast. He thinks he's you, Norma.

Norma: What kind of name is Gunner anyway?
Romero: A stupid one.

Norma: Come on, Norman, let's go.
Norman: Oh! Yes, mother. Here I come, following after you in a very masculine and attractive way!

Norman, stop it. You're acting like a twit. It's not masculine and it's not attractive.

Norma

Norma: I hear ya, but I can't take care of my self, I'm a mother. Now I have to go talk to my horrible brother. You know what? I have no choice because it is important to my sons.
James: Yeah? And what about your own needs?
Norma: Parents do not have needs. You ever read the book The Giving Tree? It's about this tree and this kid keeps coming and taking stuff from it his whole life until there's nothing left but a stump and then the kid sits on the stump. That's being a parent.

My son isn't normal, there's something wrong with him.

Norma

Emma: You have no idea how much this family means to me, how much I want to be a part of it, but never am.
Dylan: I understand.

Norman: I want my mother. I want my mother.
Emma: That's gotta be a mantra. Maybe he'll feel safer.

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Oh and by the way? My mother died. Here's your lunch.

Norma

Dylan: Norman's 18. He should not be sleeping in the same bed as his mom.
Norma: You're overreacting. He just fell asleep. It's not a big deal.