Luke Danes Quotes
Luke: C'mon, you gotta think positive here. Bright side, good thoughts. Rainbows, unicorns. (slowing down) Clowns. (pause) Little ... cute ... (longer pause) ... furry ... (giving up) Okay, I'm out.
Lorelai: Thank God.
(Lorelai avoids going into Richard's room.)
Luke: So, who are you going to go find now?
Lorela: Stop.
Luke: How about Jimmy Hoffa? That'll keep you busy for a while.
Lorelai: I said stop.
Luke: You can't avoid going in that room forever.
Lorelai: I'm not avoiding anything. I'm going to find coffee.
Luke: The machine is jammed.
Lorelai: (Backing away) There are other machines.
Luke: Admit your afraid.
Lorelai: You have no idea what your talking about.
Luke:The truth hurts.
Lorelai: No, you know what hurts? Having a screwdriver jammed in the side of your head.
Luke: What? (Looks behind him and sees a person on a gurney.) Oh, my God!
Luke: You liked going...
Lorelai: I did.
Luke: Rory's there without you...
Lorelai: She is.
Luke: You and Rory aren't getting along right now and you feel bad at being separated during a time you usually share together.
Lorelai: Wow.
Luke: Did I mention you come here every damn day?
Lorelai: I feel like this is one of those moments when I should be remembering all the great times I had with my dad, you know. The time he took me shopping for a Barbie or to the circus or fishing and my mind is a complete blank.
Luke: Well I'm sure it happened.
Lorelai: No it didn't. We never did any of that. He went to work, he came home, he read the paper, he went to bed, I snuck out the window. Simple. He was a very by the numbers guy. I was never very good with numbers.
Luke: I'm sure he loves you.
Lorelai: You know my dad is not a bad guy.
Luke: I'm sure he's not.
Lorelai: He lived his life the way he thought he was supposed to. He followed the rules taught to him by his non-fishing-non-Barbie-buying dad. He worked hard. He bought a nice house. He provided for my mom. All he asked in return was for his daughter to wear white dresses and go to cotillion and want the same life that he had. What a disappointment it must have been for him to get me.
Luke: I can't imagine anyone seeing you as a disappointment.
Luke: It's me Harry, Luke. You've known me since I was 5 years old.
Mayor: Oh, Luke, yes. Sit down.
Tradition is a trap. It allows people to stick their head in the sand. Everything in the past was so quaint, so charming. Times were simpler. Kids didn't have sex. Neighbors knew each other. It's a freaking fairy tale. Things sucked then too. It just sucked without indoor plumbing.
Twelve guys stood in a row all night waiting for an enemy that never showed. They got stood up. They should've been wearing prom dresses.
(Lorelai and Rory serve themselves after trying various gambits to get Luke's attention, including Rory's announcing -- to no response -- that Lorelai is not wearing underwear.)
Luke: No tip?
Lorelai: Oh yeah, here's a tip -- serve your customers!
Luke: Here's another -- don't sit on any cold benches!
Lorelai: That Lothario over there has wormed his way into my daughter's heart and mouth and for that he must die!
Luke: That's it, let's go.
Lorelai: Ugh! Look how he just handled those lemons.
Luke: What are you talking about?
Lorelai: He just threw them in the bag. Not tossed them, or placed them, but threw them like they were nothing to him.
Luke: They're lemons.
Lorelai: They're symbolic.
Luke: You're not going to kill the bag boy.
Lorelai: Why not?
Luke: It's double coupon day. You'll bring down the town.
(Lorelai is sitting at a table watching Rory and Lane out the window.)
Luke: Coffee? (no answer) Aw, come on. Are you mad at me too? I mean, a man can't choose whether or not he wants a picture of a fat, stupid bird on his wall? My God, that's the reason the damn Pilgrims came here in the first place.
Lorelai: Luke, I wasn't snubbing you. I didn't hear you and now I'm concerned about you.
Luke: Sorry, just feeling a little persecuted lately. Coffee?
Lorelai: Please.
Luke: You OK?
Lorelai: Yes, I'm fine.
Luke: You don't look fine.
Lorelai: Well thank you.
Luke: I just meant you look concerned.
Lorelai: I'm preoccupied.
Luke: You look concerned.
Lorelai: Well I'm not.
Luke: Fine, you just look it.
Lorelai: Hey, you know some streamers would look so great in here.
Luke: OK, I'm done.
Lorelai: Thank you.
(Later...Luke comes back to the table)
Luke: I'm not gonna say you look concerned.
Lorelai: I'm not gonna talk about how good you'd look dressed like one of the guys from The Crucible.
Luke: Fair enough.
