The Best Bill Barretta Quotes

Fran: Earl, all they were doing is listening to a little music.
Pearl: Yeah.
Earl: Tonight! But next they'll want to join a band and live on the road like gypsies. Traveling from town to town, always staying one step ahead of the law. Meeting colorful rogues and scallywags and getting into all kinds of scrapes.
Robbie: Gee, I was thinking about college but this sounds better.
Charlene: Would any of those scallywags be like, cute boys?
[Fran and Pearl laugh]
Earl: See what you've done? You've corrupted them!
Pearl: Oh why don't you hush up?

Fran: [after 2 weeks with no sleep] This monster under the bed thing isn't going away. If we're ever going to get any sleep, we have to take bold, decisive, action.
[cuts to]
Fran: We're going to a motel.
Earl: Far away.
Fran: We have to get one good night's sleep and then we'll be back.
Earl: Maybe
Charlene: Oh, the number's on the fridge?
Fran: No!
Charlene: Oh.

Earl: [Fran is giving Earl the silent treatment because he mistakenly buried her mother alive; Earl reads from the apology card he bought] What can I say? I've ruined your day, and made you all angry and surly. How could I make such a thoughtless mistake? And bury your mother too early.
Earl: [Fran continues to ignore him] Aw come on, Fran! They wouldn't make these cards if it didn't happen all the time!

Pearl: [singing] Some of us are trees, rooted in the ground. Some of us are leaves that the breeze blows all around. I've always been a leaf. Traveling fast and free. But how I've wished, I were meant to be a tree.
Earl: I was born an oak, the mightiest of trees. But I envied every leaf, floating gently on the breeze. And then a leaf explained...
Pearl: We're really just the same.
Earl: We share a single life, but we go by different names. So, if the wind gets too strong and we can't stay together, I hope you won't forget you're part of me forever.