Boyhood (I) (2014)

Patricia Arquette: Olivia

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• Samantha : [as the family leaves their house for the last time before moving]  Goodbye, yard! Goodbye, crepe myrtle! Goodbye, mailbox! Goodbye, box of stuff Mommy won't let us take with us but we don't want to throw away. Goodbye, house, I'll never like Mommy as much for making us move!

  Mom : Samantha! Why don't you say goodbye to that little horseshit attitude, okay, because we're not taking that in the car.

• Mom : [Mason is leaving for college]  This is the worst day of my life.

  Mason : What are you talking about?

  Mom : [Starts crying]  I knew this day was coming. I just... I didn't know you were going to be so fucking happy to be leaving.

  Mason : I mean it's not that I'm that happy... what do you expect?

  Mom : You know what I'm realising? My life is just going to go. Like that. This series of milestones. Getting married. Having kids. Getting divorced. The time that we thought you were dyslexic. When I taught you how to ride a bike. Getting divorced... again. Getting my masters degree. Finally getting the job I wanted. Sending Samantha off to college. Sending you off to college. You know what's next? Huh? It's my fucking funeral! Just go, and leave my picture!

  Mason : Aren't you jumping ahead by, like, 40 years or something?

  Mom : I just thought there would be more.

• Samantha : [after leaving Bill's family for good]  Why couldn't we take Randy and Mindy with us?

  Mom : Because sweetie, I'm not their legal guardian, that would be kidnapping; it's against the law.

  Samantha : Couldn't you talk to their mom?

  Mom : I tried their mom, but I can't reach her.

  Samantha : Well, what's going to happen to them?

  Mom : [starts crying]  I don't know...

  Samantha : Why are you crying?

  Mom : Because I don't have all the answers.

• Mom : [Driving Mason Jr. home from school]  Your teacher said you're behind on your homework assignments.

  Mason : No, I did them, they were just sitting in my backpack.

  Mom : So, why didn't you turn them in?

  Mason : She never asked for them.

  Mom : Well, honey, she's not supposed to ask for them. It's your job to give them to her once you've finished.

  Mason : Oh.

  Mom : She also said you destroyed her pencil sharpener.

  Mason : No I didn't.

  Mom : Then what did you put in it instead of pencils?

  Mason : Rocks.

  Mom : Why were you putting rocks in the pencil sharpener?

  Mason : Because I needed them for my arrowhead collection.

• Mom : I've spent the first half of my life acquiring all this stuff and now I'll spend the second half getting rid of it!

• Mason : Do you still love dad?

  Mom : I still love your father, but that doesn't mean it was healthy for us to stay together.

  Mason : What if after we move he's trying to find us, and he can't?

• Mom : [Mason Jr. and Samantha start fighting in the backseat]  Hey! What's going on back there? Stop it! Put a barrier up! Come on, make a barrier with your pillow!

  Mom : Okay, we're going to play a game: Whoever can stay quiet the longest wins. And, go!

  [Samantha and Mason Jr. start tickling each other, instead] 

• Dad : Am I... am I your only ex at this party?

  Mom : [chuckles]  Yes. I'm not your only wife here though.

• Mason : Why did you even buy it in the first place then?

  Mom : Because I really enjoy making poor life decisions, keeping us on the brink of poverty.