The Deep End Of The Ocean Quotes
"I only like the baby," Beth told her husband.
Why?" he finally asked her. "You blurt stuff like that out, you don't mean it, and Vincent could hear you.
I mean it," said Beth. "I really, really mean it.
"You cannot go to the restaurant with Daddy," she finally snapped at him.
"Mama was sick then," Beth explained with a patience she did not feel.
"I hate Ben and Kerry, and I hate that I have to do everything, and I'm not even going to get dressed."
"Beth, on the other hand, was drawn to Vincent with an intensity she didn’t have to feign."
"Sing 'Comin’ Through the Rye,' Mom," Ben suddenly called to her now.
"I’m your godmama, Kerry Rose Cappadora," Ellen cooed.
Just get on the road," Pat told her. "They'll settle down. They'll go to sleep.
"But Ben's so…so quiet, and so content," sounding like the ninny she was.
"We need to all look for Beth Kerry's little boy," Ellen said.
Don’t worry, mother," he said genially. "We haven’t lost a child yet.
"You have brought some children…." Wayne intoned.
"Where did you get all these kids?" he asked. Beth's stomach bubbled.
"I love you, Vincent," said Ben, straining to get closer to the toys in the newsstand.
Come on, buddy," the detective urged Vincent. "Show me where your brother went.
Ben!" she had coaxed him then, buying time. "Don’t be afraid. I would be with you.
It's not conclusive, Mrs. Cappadora," said Candy Bliss. "But it's enough to start on.
"It's not a trade, Beth. I've told you this. If you give everything else up, it doesn’t mean you get Ben."
"I don’t want to survive Ben. I don’t want to try to outrun him—it—this."
"I don’t know if I ever can do anything the way I would have done it…before."
"I feel like I didn’t just lose my kid but my wife, too. Like I’m a widower, and I don’t want to be."
"If you laugh, or read a book to Vincent, or eat something you like, it’s not going to count for or against us on the big scoreboard of luck."
"I don’t want to survive it and I don’t want to face it."
"If I can’t be Ben’s mother, I not only don’t want to be anyone’s mother, I don’t want to be anyone."
"It doesn’t mean that a part of it is beginning. The part where you try to take stock of what you can do and how you can do it."
"I think they could do a whole lot worse."
"I have no doubt that I’m a bad friend. But the fact is, I’m not going to have a baby and I’m not going to move to Chicago so you can start a restaurant with your dad. If you want a new baby and a restaurant in Chicago, you need a new wife."
"There is no such thing as having a normal life again."
"It’s like I’m always under this giant shelf of snow or rock, and if I move, if I change my position even a little, the snow is going to start to slide, and it’s going to come down on me and bury me…."
"I hear you and Tree talking. You and Monica. We’d all be together again. In the old neighborhood. The kids under the table while the adults play poker. Just like the old days. Don’t you think I know that Tree hates me for keeping you up here? Away from your parents, who want you so bad, so much more now that they’re grieving? Don’t you think I know that my own father thinks I should come home, where Bick can help me, because I’m such a mess?"
"I’m not self-righteous, Beth. I’m right! I’m just right! Kids don’t just vanish like smoke, Beth. They don’t ‘get lost.’ People lose them."
"Sometimes, we could go see Grandma Rosie even in the middle of the week, like in summer."
"Rose, a businessman has a big car and a clean suit. Not just at business—all day long."
"The time to draw to an inside straight was never, ever, never; it was madness and doom."
"My little love," said Grandpa Angelo. "My best boy."
"I love you, Grandpa," Vincent told him, nuzzling.
"Patrick, tesoro mio," said Grandma Rosie. "She’s not herself. You must give her time."
"We must have some music now, eh? Good for the soul!"
"And Paul, after your mama’s brother Paulie."
"The only true opera is Italian, Vincenzo. You know this."
"Regular people, like Italians and even Irish, like Grandpa Bill, they get up and kick somebody in the gool if he does bad to them."
"My mother only ever smelled of Noxzema."
"This is a whole family thing, Mr. Cappadora."
"No, I just sit there on my bike and watch."
"You're not dying. You're not having a heart attack. You're having a panic attack, and though it feels very frightening and very real—and it is very real—it's not dangerous. It's not going to kill you."
"You can bring down an ox if you know the pressure points, and if you're going to keep on getting in fights, I just thought you might..."
"He’s really big for his age, for example. No, he doesn’t look like me at all."
"And with a kid like this, the waste could be big."
"He was always hard. I mean, since he was a baby, he had his own ideas of how he wanted to do things."
"You’ve got a great kid here. A kid with a mind that just doesn’t quit."
"He’s my boy. I adopted him as my own boy. But even before that, he was my boy."
"It's possible that a kid two blocks away is your brother, that Ben isn't dead anymore."
"They think it's Ben. The boy you…saw in the picture. They think it's your brother. That he's alive."
"It’s okay if you want to go play with Blythe, okay? Go ahead."
"Actually, it’s kind of sickening. I mean, all these days, the past two weeks, the psychologist is saying, ‘So, you must be having a lot of feelings about all this.’…How can you have feelings about something you didn’t even know was going on?"
"Nothing. Nothing has to be wrong with you. It’s just…school shit. And so forth. It’s mainly my dad who thinks I’m this major fuckoff."
"No, but a car is a thing you can always have if you want."
I play city league," said the kid. "Traveling squad. First string.
"Can you go a day—this one day—without trying to hurt something?"
"What do you remember from when you were seven?"
"You don’t have to have the address to cruise by and see a kid out in front… a kid whose face had been on every front page in the country."
"It’s just that the twirlers are in town, and everything else…."
I guess I didn’t go to that school," Candy sighed. "But it’s not what you would imagine for a child.
"I didn’t really appreciate sex until I was probably thirty, you know?"
"Sam, you weren’t hard to handle. You were the easiest kid in the world."
"You are the original one-man woman," Candy agreed.
"I may be weak and I may be strong, but I’ve been in this wicked world too long."
"It’s just a cheesy thing to do, in my opinion."
"I think that living in the Addams Family has been easy, you’re the one who ought to be sitting over here."
"I always knew it. And I didn’t. That’s the truth. It was, like it was in a box. But I remembered it when he came home. Like, first a little. Then some more. Then the words."
"It wasn’t your fault, Reese. It wasn’t your fault. You don’t have to believe me now. Like, people didn’t used to believe there were such things as atoms, because they couldn’t see them. But there are."
"Don’t give it a thought, Reese. My next appointment canceled. And your dad’s loaded."
"Beth, you have to do something about this. You guys can’t take another loss. Come on."
"Look, nobody has ever called me afraid. They’ve called me a lot, but never chickenshit."
"My children are going no place, Bethie. My children’s home is here."
"It seems kind of crummy to come along and kick you out of your bed."