The Best Manju K. Sethi Quotes

Harry: [about their planned Diwali celebrations] Just about Xavier. I don't think I can have him here as just a friend.
Manju K. Sethi: I thought it would be nice for him. But all right, we do have so many other guests coming.
Harry: No! I want him here, but as my partner. I want to tell Akshay Mama.
Manju K. Sethi: [defiantly] No, no, no, no, no no. No! No way!
Harry: Uh, Mom, I... I think I may be in love.. kind of for the first time, and I don't want to have to wait years and years for my family to know. I just want to tell them now.
Manju K. Sethi: You don't have to wait years and years, Harpreet. Akshay Mama gets very little exercise. I think four years at most.
Harry: I don't want to lie for another four years.
Manju K. Sethi: Lying is what you have to do with Akshay Mama.
Harry: He really respects me, Mom. I'm, I'm the only boy in the family. I'm a doctor...
Manju K. Sethi: His judgement will fall on me. He will think I'm the lonely widow who cannot raise a son.
Harry: [calmly as he tries to diffuse the situation] I really think he'll be fine.
Harry: [voice over] There was only about a two percent chance Akshay Mama would be fine, but when you're high on love, you always think the odds are tilting in your way.

Harry: [as Manju is being wheeled into surgery] I love you, Mom.
Manju K. Sethi: [to the orderlies] My son. Feeling guilty because he tried to put me in a home. I managed to escape.

Manju K. Sethi: Who is this?
Liz: [as Manju moves closer to the person she doesn't recognize] Oh, hi, Manju. Uh, this... this is, um, this is Stuart Wendell, yeah, my... my ex-husband.
Manju K. Sethi: [smiling and nodding affirmatively] Mm, hello.
Stuart: [cordially] Lovely to meet you, Mrs. Sethi. I have been hearing... amazing things about you for a decade.
Manju K. Sethi: [matter-of-factly] My son speaks very poorly of you.