Big Little Lies
Sundays 9:00 PM on HBOBig Little Lies Season 2 Episode 4: "She Knows" Quotes
Renata: What are you doing?
Madeline: Smoking. I hate smoking.
Renata: Nobody smokes anymore.
Madeline: I'm just trying to manage my stress.
It's better than sitting around the penniless losers as if that's not us.
Renata
Madeline: Mary Louise?
Mary Louise: The boys mentioned you were having a pumpkin-carving party. It sounded like so much fun.
Madeline: Mmmm.
Mary Louise: And I can, I can be gone in a flash if it's an imposition.
Celeste: You really think this is a good idea?
Mary Louise: Why wouldn't it be?
Celeste: Because there are boundaries, Mary Louise.
Mary Louise: Well, where would you have me go? Canada?
Celeste: This is all beginning to feel a little perverse.
Mary Louise: I beg your pardon?
Celeste: You're moving in with your son's rape victim. For God's sake, it's not right!
What should we call that? Foreplay? Oh dear.
Mary Louise
Ed: You know, there's never any middle ground with you. Like when you're upset? Charge, full speed ahead. If there's a problem? Charge. [pause] If there was a problem with us, where was the charge? Why couldn't you come straight at me like you go at everyone else?
Celeste: There wasn't a problem with us, Ed. There was a problem with me.
Mary Louise: It's meant to be shared, you know, grief. It's... insurmountable. Too difficult a battle to be waged alone.
Celeste: Which is what you had to do. You were alone. After the accident, your husband left. Perry told me.
Mary Louise: Yes, he blamed me, and he left. And I deserved the blame, to be left. You know Ray, he got a new life. He got a new family. He became a devoted father, so I'm told. It's, it's good. People can move on after tragedy. Just not together sometimes.
So I'm having a hard time reconciling that all my plans have gone to shit. All my hopes and plans for Amabella have gone to shit. That I married a man who would take my life and all my accomplishments and turn them to shit. Well, it's on me, right? My choices, my stupidity. It's my picker that's broken. My fuckin' bad.
Renata
Ira: Once we file, you can count on alienation from the boys. You might get custody, but affection...
Mary Louise: This isn't about me needing to be liked.
Ira: Everyone needs to be liked. I find that's especially true with grandmothers.
I was raped pretty violently by a man I thought was sensitive and kind. That's how I got Ziggy.
Jane
Madeline: Look, if you're going to leave me, can you just do it? Can you just get it over with?
Ed: Well, I'm still here, aren't I?
Madeline: Is that what you think, Ed? You're far from here. You're not even fucking close.
Mary Louise: You're a mess, Celeste. And until you're better, we just have to think about protecting the wellbeing of our boys. We should at least agree on that, hmm?
Celeste: My boys will not be going to live with you.
Mary Louise: But they're at risk here. They're at risk in your care. And I'm their grandmother, and I will not forsake them. And I will not forsake what I know Perry would want me to do for them.
Celeste: I need you to get out of here. Right now.
Mary Louise: We can calmly...
Celeste: No, no.
Mary Louise: Celeste...
Celeste: Get the fuck out of here!
