Return to Sender Quotes

Miranda Wells: You saw that? You saw what I got to do? I got to stick a knife into a man's throat in broad daylight and people wanted me to do it. In fact, they applauded.

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Miranda Wells: It's just something that I do.

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Miranda Wells: [as William stares at her while painting the chair, not watching what he's doing]You're dripping.

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Miranda Wells: I watched my mother die. And she did a lot of things, but she never fucked me from behind.

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[first lines] Nancy: Hey! How was it? How'd it go?
Miranda Wells: Dr. Cyper's amazing. You'd think he was cutting the crusts off his kid's sandwich.
Nancy: So you really want to leave all of this for that?
Miranda Wells: If I qualify for this transfer, I'll still... [moving a plate of sandwiches]
Miranda Wells: Is this yours?
Nancy: Oh, yeah, sorry.
Miranda Wells: I will still be all this adjacent.
Nancy: I don't know why you want to be a surgical nurse. You know, I can take my kids barfing on me, I can take the patients whizzing on me, but the minute you pull out a scalpel, I'm like, oh, gross! [repeatedly dabs sandwiches crumbs off of the nursing station counter top]
Miranda Wells: Yeah, it can be awfully revolting.

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William Finn: [in their prison cell]Randy. I'm leaving you. You gonna miss me?
Randy: About as much as you gon' miss me.
William Finn: Oh, Randy, don't underestimate yourself. I've, uh, actually grown quite attached to you. All this time together, this is how you say goodbye? Well, somehow... [strokes his cheek]
William Finn: I know that you won't forget me. Most people don't.

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Miranda Wells: You want me to sit and cry in therapy for 10 years, writing in some goddamn journal about my feelings? That's not me. It'd be like drowning in a puddle. I'd be dying by inches. You want me to hate him forever? That hurts no one but me. I'm tired of hurting.

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William Finn: [feeling really sick]You know what's wrong with me?
Miranda Wells: Of course I do.
William Finn: Yeah?
Miranda Wells: You're a rapist, William. That's what's wrong with you.

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William Finn: You fucking crazy?
Miranda Wells: No. No, I'm not crazy, William. Crazy suggests that I don't know right from wrong. And I do. This... is clearly wrong.

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[last lines] Mitchell Wells: For the first time in my life... I'm scared. I'm really worried about you.
Miranda Wells: You don't have to worry.
Mitchell Wells: This is your life.
Miranda Wells: I know that, Daddy. So I put an end to it. He won't be coming around anymore.

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