It isn't easy giving up power admitting that we might need help from friends and neighbors, deciding that a loved one might know what's best for us, giving up our better judgment for a slightly darker agenda, but for some the hardest kind of power to give up is the power to control their own desires.

Mary Alice

Your ex kept secrets to hurt you. I'm keeping a secret to protect you.

Ben

Lynette: Huh. That's weird.
Tom: What?
Lynette: I have an "Isn't that Ironic?" app that usually buzzes when people say stuff like that.

My husband's an alcoholic so I can only drink at work.

Gaby

Desperate Housewives Season 8 Episode 20 Quotes

My husband's an alcoholic so I can only drink at work.

Gaby

Lynette: Huh. That's weird.
Tom: What?
Lynette: I have an "Isn't that Ironic?" app that usually buzzes when people say stuff like that.