Ultimate Desperate Housewives

Episode 02.07 - "Color and Light"

Mary Alice: "Cameras are simple tools designed to capture images. Images that tell us more about ourselves than we realize. They remind us of the long journey we’ve taken. The loved ones who traveled alongside of us. Those we lost along the way. And those waiting for us on the road ahead."

Edie: "Susan. Why are you so eerily calm? Mike Delfino just dumped you. The Susan Mayer I know would be a blubbering mess right now. Oh, come on, trot her on out. She’s fun to watch."

Susan: "Over the past couple of days, I gave myself a long hard look in the mirror and I did not like what I saw."
Edie: "I’m with you. Carry on."
Susan: "I just think if I start acting like an adult for once, maybe, who knows, somewhere down the line, Mike and I at least can be friends."
Edie: "All right, you’re not Zen. You’re numb."

Gabrielle: "I know I haven’t been to the store lately but I’ve been a little busy getting my husband out of jail."
Vern: "That’s such a white-trash thing to say."

Gabrielle: "Some of my model friends are coming down from New York on Friday so I have to look better than ever. I can’t have them thinking I moved to the suburbs and I shop at strip malls."
Vern: "When they see this dress they will crumple to the floor like the Botox tags they are."

Vern: "I have the same thing in a zero, why not go up a size?"
Gabrielle: "Because I wear a double zero, you twerp!"
Vern: "Why are you getting snippy?"
Gabrielle: "Because you just called me fat!"

Gabrielle: "I’m just not gonna eat for two days."
Vern: "Okay, you totally deserve to wear Dolce and Gabana."

George: "Bree, will you marry me?"
Bree: "Huh?"
George: "I love you and I think I know how you feel about me. So why wait?"
Bree: "George, Rex hasn’t even been dead for two months."
George: "Yes, but if his death has taught us anything, it’s that life is short. It’s dumb to play it safe. If we see a chance for happiness we should grab it and hold on tight."
Bree: "See, I thought we were going to a yard sale."

Susan: "Actually, I’m trying to keep a positive outlook on the whole thing. Um, last night I started writing and, well, I think there’s a book in there."
Karl: "A book?"
Susan: "Yeah."
Karl: "Like one of your children’s books?"
Susan: "Nope. This one’s for adults about all my failed relationships."
Karl: "You’re not writing about me, are you?"
Susan: "You’re, like, the first fourteen chapters."
Karl: "Are you gonna be fair?"
Susan: "I’m gonna be honest."
Karl: "I was afraid of that."

Dr. Goldfine: "So you agreed to marry him just to be polite?"
Bree: "Well, obviously there’s a down side to having good manners."

Dr. Goldfine: "Bree, you’ve said many times how comfortable you are with George, but you don’t feel for him the way you felt for Rex."
Bree: "No. True love is great, but at this point in my life, I think I’d rather just go to the opera."

Susan: "Okay, there is a good explanation for what happened."
Julie: "I doubt that."
Susan: "You probably don't know that your father and Edie broke up last night."
Julie: "You slept with him the same night he broke up with her?"
Susan: "Well, I said it was a good explanation, not a great one."

Karl: "I gotta tell you, last night was the best sex ever."
Susan: "Wasn't it, though? You were fantastic!"
Karl: "Hey, I was just trying to keep up with you."

Betty: "How do you get your hydrangeas to look so stunning? I'm systematically slaughtering my own garden."
Bree: "Do you really want to know my secret?"
Betty: "Oh, yes."
Bree: "Horse manure. I have it delivered. Susan makes fun of me, but the proof is in the pudding."

Danielle: "Looking for something?"
Matthew: "Uh, yeah. Actually, I'm looking for you."
Danielle: "Me? You're looking for me?"
Matthew: "Yeah. I've been thinking about you, and that time we met, I thought you were really cool."
Danielle: "So you came to ask me out? 'Cause I'll say yes."

Edie: "Whatever it was that you said to him really helped. He showed up with flowers and he apologized for everything. So, thank you."
Susan: "I'm sorry, what?"
Edie: "Well, I'm not gonna say it again. It hurt my teeth the first time."

Gabrielle: "When I decided to marry Carlos, I told these girls I would spend the rest of my days being rich and in love and childless, and they laughed at me, and they said I would just end up being another fat hausfrau living a life that I didn't plan. I'm not gonna give them the satisfaction of knowing they were right."
Bree: "Well, maybe they'll just be happy for you."
Gabrielle: "Bree, my friends are models. They're never happy for anyone."

Bree: "Oh, come on. You don't think you're gonna love your own baby?"
Gabrielle: "Well, I'm not saying I'm not gonna grow attached to the little bugger. I just don't have the motherhood gene. I wish I did, but I don't. What?"
Bree: "Well, I'm just smiling because I think a few months from now you are gonna come to me and tell me how madly in love you are with your new little baby, and I'm gonna have to resist the urge to say 'I told you so.'"

Mary Alice: "Yes, cameras are tools designed to capture images. But in truth, they can capture so much more. They can uncover hidden longing of men who should no longer care. They can reveal the extraordinary secrets of the most ordinary marriages. Most amazing of all, cameras can quietly and clearly reveal to us our dreams. Dreams we didn't even know we had."