Daily Dialogue — May 13, 2010

Emma: Tommy, you be sweet. Be sweet. And stop tryin’ to pretend that you hate me. I mean, it’s silly.
Tommy: I like you.
Emma: Okay, then will you listen especially close?
Tommy: What?
Emma: You’ll listen real hard?
Tommy: I said, what?!
Emma: I know you like me. I know it. For the last year or two you’ve been pretending that you hate me. I love you very much. I love you as much as I love anybody…as much as I love myself. And in a few years, when I haven’t been around to be on your butt about something, or irritating you, you’re gonna remember. You’ll remember that time when I bought you the baseball glove when you thought we were too broke. Or when…I read you those stories, or, or when I let you goof off instead of mowing the lawn, lots of things like that. And you’re gonna realize that you love me. And maybe you’re gonna feel bad, because you never told me, but don’t! I know that you love me! So don’t ever do that to yourself, all right?
Tommy: Okay…
Emma: Okay?
Tommy: I said okay!

 — Emma (Debra Winger), Tommy (Troy Bishop), Terms of Endearment (1983), screenplay by James L. Brooks, based on the novel by Larry McMurtry

Daily Dialogue theme for the week is notable mother-child (young or adult) conversations. Terms of Endearment suggested by Robert.

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