The Amaranth (2018)

Melora Walters: Lily Kendrick

Quotes 

• Lily Kendrick : Even with the bone marrow transplant, the best the doctors could offer is a year.

  Dr. Alan Campbell : Of course there's no way of knowing if this unfortunate outcome is a result of our process,

  Richard Kendrick : Can you help, Doctor?

  Dr. Alan Campbell : I believe so, but this kind of procedure would be something new and unorthodox, and Mia would need to live here for the course of her treatment. Given Lily's objections to our methodology in the past, well...

  Lily Kendrick : [pause]  That won't be a problem.

• Richard Kendrick : Lily, I didn't know it was *that* kind of party.

  Lily Kendrick : It's not about *that*, it's about this place, it's about *you*.

  Richard Kendrick : You're right, look, I know this is no excuse, but these changes in me, sometimes I hardly even recognize myself.

  Lily Kendrick : Where does that leave *me*? Is this what the rest of my life looks like?

• Lily Kendrick : You have a resident here named Shirley? I thought I'd check up on her, she was friends with my father.

  Nurse : Did she tell you that? As I recall, your father thought she was a pain. Either way, she isn't here.

  Lily Kendrick : Where is she?

  Nurse : The hospital. She got a hold of someone else's medication, *again*. Come to think of it, she claimed she got it from your dad. I knew John's medications and he wasn't taking any immuno-suppressants.

  Lily Kendrick : Any what?

  Nurse : They're for people with MS or organ transplants, they suppress the immune system. Sunshine Manor would never take on immuno-compromised seniors. The slightest infection... Lord knows where Shirley found them.

• Patsy Howard : You'll have to get used to that, being the youngest in a hen house.

  Lily Kendrick : Pardon?

  Patsy Howard : Well the cut off date to be a resident at Amaranth is 55, which is, you know, standard for retirement communities.

  Lily Kendrick : After his stroke, Richard was looking for a place we could live independently and get the medical support he needs, and also make some new friends.

  Patsy Howard : No children?

  Lily Kendrick : Richard has two boys and they're thrilled about this. It removes the guilt.

  Patsy Howard : Uh huh, and you?

  Lily Kendrick : I guess I thought after he retired, we'd have more time...

  Patsy Howard : Before you landed in an old folks' home. Lily, give it a chance, there are endless opportunities here for you, you know, recapture old interests, develop new interests, make some really, really good friendships.

• Andrew Kendrick : [on phone]  Hello, Lily?

  Lily Kendrick : Oh, Andrew, your father's not here, I don't expect him until late.

  Andrew Kendrick : I know.

  Lily Kendrick : Look, I don't want to get in the middle of whatever it is.

  Andrew Kendrick : So it had nothing to do with Dad screwing me out of the company and my inheritance.

  Lily Kendrick : Your what? I don't know what you're talking about.

  Andrew Kendrick : Dad changing his will, so that your little 'science project' could be his new heir, huh? Excellent job keeping that a secret.

  Lily Kendrick : We wanted to be sure before we told anyone.

  Andrew Kendrick : Well Dad was pretty sure of it last March when he changed his will.

  Lily Kendrick : But why? I wasn't pregnant until April.

• Shirley Howard : Shirley, me and John are friends, ain't that right, John? I heard you say you're living over there at the Amaranth.

  Lily Kendrick : Yes, my husband and I moved there a few months ago.

  Shirley Howard : [howls]  Fancy schmancy. I knew a woman who lived there, I wonder if she's still around. Name was Patsy. Patsy Howard.

  Lily Kendrick : Oh I know Patsy.

  Shirley Howard : Oh! You tell her hi from me.

  Lily Kendrick : From Shirley.

  Shirley Howard : From her daughter.

  Lily Kendrick : Oh, she's your daughter.

  Shirley Howard : [laughs]  No silly, I'm HER daughter!

  Lily Kendrick : That's impossible.

  Shirley Howard : [laughs]  Sure it is, sure it is.

• Lily Kendrick : We like to believe we know ourselves, our place in the world, our limits; but boundaries are meaningless in the face of love. Love makes us heroes. Love makes us monsters.

• Lily Kendrick : What is this place?

  Dr. Alan Campbell : You see, Lily, the problem with traditional medicine is you can place a young organ in an old body, but without support from the other systems, well, it's a stop-gap measure, at best. But if you add transplantation from endocrine systems and heterochronic parabiosis, if you get down to a cellular level, you can extend life, healthy life, indefinitely.

  Lily Kendrick : Does everybody know about this?

  [turns to Richard] 

  Lily Kendrick : Everybody except *me*?

  Dr. Alan Campbell : No, although, every member, when faced with saving their own life or the life of their partner...

  Lily Kendrick : [realizing]  Richard's heart surgery.

  Dr. Alan Campbell : Last year, Arthur's mother and sister were among a group of women who were kidnapped from his village. Arthur knew about our work here and he came to me, we negotiated a price. Your husband paid that price.

  Lily Kendrick : The yellow pills.

  Dr. Alan Campbell : An immuno-suppressant. We still have to prevent organ rejection the old fashioned way, but we are making progress. I've found that transplants from living hosts reduce the number of maintenance medications immensely.

  Lily Kendrick : You're stealing organs!

  Dr. Alan Campbell : [chuckles]  Purchasing.