Gilmore Girls (TV Series)

The Incredible Sinking Lorelais (2004)

Lauren Graham: Lorelai Gilmore

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Quotes 

• Luke : I mean you look distracted.

  Lorelai : Distracted? No, well, maybe, yeah, distracted, okay, sure, I'm very distracted.

  Luke : Anything I can do?

  Lorelai : You know there are very few times in my life when I find my self sitting around, thinking I wish I was married, but today... I... I'm happy, you know? I like my life, I like my friends, I like my... stuff. My time, my space, my TV.

  Luke : Sure.

  Lorelai : But every now and then, just for a moment I wish I had a partner, someone to pick up the slack, someone to wait for the cable guy, make ME coffee in the morning. Meet the stupid sink before it gets shipped back to Canada!

  Luke : What happened?

  Lorelai : I just thought I had everything under control, but I didn't and the inn is just falling apart. This has been my dream forever and I have it and it's here and I'm failing and I can't handle it, I just spend every minute running around and working and thinking and I thought I would have help but Sookie has Davey and Michel has Celine and I'm... I can't do it all by myself! And I don't even have time to see my kid anymore, hell forget see her, just even talk to her and I miss her. And I sat there in my parents' house just listening to my grandma basically call me a charity case and I couldn't even argue with her, I couldn't even say anything, because I am, I'm running out of money! And I was going to ask you for $30,000 at dinner tonight, that's how pathetic I am.

• Lorelai : [to Rory's answering machine]  Hey Rory it's me, how's school? You learning stuff? Listen, we have the horses, Desdemona and Cletus, and the first two rides have to be me and you, hopefully you're over the time that I took you for the pony ride and the pony was old and just sort of stopped and laid down and you sort of rolled off into the ditch, it's really not likely to happen again, I promise, so call me, call me.

  Rory Gilmore : [later, to Lorelai's answering machine]  Mom, it's me, I left you a message at home too. I love that you got horses, as far as that pony ride when I was a kid, you're forgetting one little tidbit there, that pony did not lie down... he died ok... he died... and then the owner dragged him away by the back legs, everytime I use glue I think of him, but I'll watch you ride how's that?

• [Lorelai just booked the Dragonfly Inn's first reservation] 

  Michel Gerard : But you wrote it down on a gum wrapper.

  Lorelai : So?

  Michel Gerard : It's embarrassing. This is an historical document.

  Sookie St. James : Who cares what she wrote it down on?

  Michel Gerard : Big Red wrapper.

  Sookie St. James : Juicy Fruit would have been better?

  Michel Gerard : Well, I'm going to go out and get a value pack for when things really start getting busy around here.

• Richard Gilmore : Lorelai, have you been there the whole time?

  Lorelai : Yes.

  Richard Gilmore : I didn't see you.

  Lorelai : Well, I've got my cloaking device activated so...