The Best Twin Peaks, Season 2, Episode 12 Quotes

Big: I'm living my life, Norma. I just don't like it much.

- Love poems of lord Byron, the Kama Sutra, hookers and handmaidens.
- Sheriff, look at this.
- What a falling out was here.
- Doug.
- Lord, I hate to say it, I told you so.

- Cooper: Very good. Which one would you like to see first?
- Well...

- Something violent and noble.
- She begged me not to hurt him, made me promise, said it was for both our sakes.
- That was four years ago.
- One day, I swear, I'll kill him.
- No matter what it costs.

DEA: [Denise has just witnessed Audrey kiss Cooper] Now can we talk about something more important? Exactly how old is that "girl"?
Special: Denise, I would assume you are no longer interested in girls!
DEA: Coop, I may be wearing a dress - but I still put my panties on one leg at a time if you know what I mean!
Special: Not really...

- They have women agents?
- More or less.
- Audrey, if you'll excuse us.
- Agency business.
- I thought you were suspended.
- Thanks again. Good night.
- Thank you. Heh.
- You're welcome. Ha, ha.

- Are you?
- Yeah, of course I am. Yes.
- Bobby, opportunity knocks.
- I want you to follow Hank Jennings.
- I want you to chronicle his existence.
- Show me something that I don't already know.

- You are afraid of him, aren't you?
- Why don't you just leave?
- It's complicated.
Evelyn: Oh, my god, it's him.
- I've gotta go.
- It's not as bad as I made it out to be.

- How much am I paying you?
Bobby: Uh...
- We haven't actually discussed money.
- Well, you can consider this your first raise.
- Now, you come back tomorrow, and we will discuss a full-time position.
- Thank you, Ben.
- I won't let you down.

Dale: Denise, I would assume you're no longer interested in girls.
DEA: Coop, I may be wearing a dress, but I still pull my panties on one leg at a time, if you know what I mean
Dale: Not really.

- Your secretary said to come in.
- Bobby Briggs.
- Bobby, you know what you have to have in this life?
- Balance.
- Distance.
- Symmetry.

- Sonny boy, nobody stops Mr. Marsh.
- That's a golden rule around here.
- You can jot that down and put it under your pillow.
- I gotta get back.
- Hey, thanks.
- I mean that.

Special: [looking at real estate photos] What is this?
Irene: I thought I'd taken that out. That property is called Dead Dog Farm... and it's worse than it sounds.

- They just had all these really big horses, you know.
- And you will not believe what they made him do.
- What?
- What?
- They made him... thank you.
- They made him stand in the middle,
- Truman: Yeah.
Lana: And take his clown costume completely off.

- Agh.
- What about tonight?
- Hey, coach?
- Boy 1: Get up, Mike.
- Boy 2: Oh, my god.
- One, two and three.
Nadine: Now will you go out with me?

- Here, sheriff.
- The murder weapon.
- She might as well have blown his brains out with a rifle.
- He never could say no to a woman.
- You old fool.

- Well, you know what I think,
- Bobby Briggs?
- Tell.
- I think that we should think about doing business together.
- Audrey, I like the way you think.
- Thank you.

- Harry, do you still have that bottle of Irish in your office?
- I wanna put some in a little warm milk for the widow milford.
- O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright.
- It seems she hangs against the cheek of night like a rich Jewel in an ethiope's ear.
- Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.

- Hey, Mr. Horne, how's it going?
- What, uh...? What is this you're doing here, exactly?
- Gettysburg, day one.
- The south is winning.
- I followed Hank, got those pictures you wanted.

Catherine: I would like to propose a toast. To Ben Horne's double cross. Here's to Josie Packard's dirty deeds. And here's to the woman who brought them down. Here's to me.

- planning all that stuff we'd do when we did.
- Somehow, life starts before you know it.
- Suddenly, you're halfway through living it, and all those plans, they just don't mean a damn thing.
- This is my life, Norma.
- I just don't like it much.
- We can make new plans.

- I don't understand this at all.
- I just had the car checked at gas farm.
- He told me it was in perfect working order.
- Perfect working order.
- This is all so technical.
- Please, Nicky, uncle dick is trying to read.

- How will I, uh...?
- How will I know him?
- You're looking at him.
- Him? Him...
- Will you excuse me?
- I've got a nervous bladder.
Jeffrey: Why?! Why?! Why would you...?
- You could have...

- I don't know, maybe an older woman is just what you need.
- I don't wanna go out with anyone who can body-slam me.
- Well, what do you want me to do about it?
- I don't know, talk to her or something.
- Pretend you're still my girlfriend.
- Sorry, Mike,
- I'm not that good of an actress.
- Donna, this is serious.
- I'm gonna end up in traction.

- Nicholas, out of the car, right now!
- Out of the car!
- Do you hear me?
- Are you mad at me, uncle dick?
- Well, of course I'm not mad at you.
- Why should I be mad at you?
- Scared you, didn't I?
- Ha-ha-ha.

- Twin peaks sheriff station, this is Lucy speaking.
- One moment, please.
- Sheriff Truman?
- Sheriff Truman.
- Sheriff Truman, you have a telephone call, line three.
- One moment, please.

- I don't think anyone's asked to see it this last year.
- There's three vehicles.
- Ajeep, a four-Wheeler and a luxury sedan.
- It's open.
- Hello?
- There's been a meeting here.
- In the past few hours.

- even this bucolic hideaway is filled with secrets.
- Secrets that may be connected to my trouble at the bureau and the cocaine that was found in my automobile.
- Agent Hardy's deliberations will soon be completed.
- And if I'm not adequately able to defend myself, there's a very real possibility of imprisonment.

Irene: More white powder.
- Cooper: Mm.
- Cocaine.
- Irene, we have to notify the sheriff.

Bobby: Mr Horne, I have a great admiration for you.
Benjamin: Admiration is for poets and dairy cows, Bobby.
Bobby: I don't know what you mean by that.

- What are you seeing?
- They forgot there was no running water.
- Baby laxative.

- Look, James, mind your own business.
- Are you afraid?
- Are you afraid of your husband?
- Are you?
- There's nothing to talk about.
- I know what it's like to be alone.

- Persistent random misfortune?
- Uh, they were killed.
- How were they killed, miss swain?
- Mysterious circumstances.
- I'm afraid the, uh, orphanage has never provided us with that information.
- Andy, let's go.
- Emergency up at the great northern.

- My father is a deeply weird individual.
- But he has a lot more going on under his hat than most people, that's for sure.
- Sometimes when I'm sleeping he runs his fingers through my hair.
- He thinks I don't notice, but I do.