Little House on the Prairie

Charles: Half Pint, hey, come on, everybody's ready. Laura: Do I have to go, Pa? Charles: Once you get there, you're going to have a good time. Laura: Can't I just stay home and take care of baby Grace? Charles: Mrs. Terhoun is going to take care of baby Grace. You told me yourself, there's going to be a lot of girls there without beaus. Laura: Yeah, Nellie Oleson, and the only reason the boys will ask her to dance is because she brings a ten pound bag of candy with her! Charles: Lots of boys are going to ask you to dance, and besides, I want a dance with my best girl, too. Laura: All right, I'll be right down. Charles: That's my girl. (leaves) Laura: (sarcastically) What a fun night. I get to dance with my brother and my Pa!

Amanda: All right, speak your piece. I need my sleep.. Toby: All right, I will. First of all, you're older than me, anyone can see that. I'm doing you the favor. Second of all, I'm better looking than you, so don't you dare call me ugly! Amanda: I never said that! Toby: That's all a lot of lies! Those aren't the real reasons you're trying to break us up. You're afraid of feelings, afraid of living. You're afraid of needing me. Amanda: That's ridiculous! Toby: Not so ridiculous as talking to that dumb cat! Amanda: You have said your piece. You can go now. Toby: I loved you. Spend the rest of your life talking to that dumb cat.

Toby: (after giving Amanda a brooch for her birthday) It's my way of saying that I've been looking for you my whole life. Amanda: Toby......I want you to go home now. Toby: Home? Why? Amanda: I just want you to go home, that's all. Toby: What? Amanda: I've been thinking about this for a long time, and we are just too different, you and I. Toby: I don't know what you mean. You need me. Amanda: I don't "need" anybody. Toby, you have been a tramp most of your life. Why, I could never settle down with anyone like that. Never. Toby: But I'm working now, and I'm willing to work for all the rest of my days. Amanda: It just wouldn't work. Now, there are a million reasons. Toby: Well, name one. Up to now, you've been talking nonsense! Amanda: I didn't want to say this, but you are forcing me to. Toby, you're too old for me. I mean it, you're too old, and um, anyway, the man I have in mind is much better looking than you are. I'm truly sorry that it has to end like this. (long pause, a heartbroken Toby stands up to go) Here's your brooch. Toby: You keep it. It wouldn't look good on me, anyway. (leaves)

Jason: (while Laura's playing marbles with Albert) Laura? Laura: Not while I'm shooting, Jason. Jason: All right. Laura: Darn! (to Albert) Your turn. Jason: Um, Laura-- Laura: Albert's shooting. Jason: Well, I have to ask you a question! Laura: Can't it wait? Jason: Well, no, it's kind of important. Laura: Nothing's more important than a marble game. (shoots) Ah, gotcha! Jason: Well, if you haven't got time for a question, then I'd just like to say that, uh.... Laura: That what? Jason: You're a toadface! (storms away)

Charles: (about Toby) Caroline, he's driving me crazy. It's Amanda this, Amanda that. That's all I hear about is Amanda! Caroline: Charles, you know what it's like, being in love. It's filled with suffering. Charles: Who's suffering? The man eats like a horse! He doesn't offer to pay for anything. He just eats and eats and eats! I thought he was going to stay here for a few days. Caroline: Oh, Charles, have some sympathy. After all, he's an old man. Charles: Caroline, I'm going to be an old man before he leaves!

Reverend Alden: Charles, a few of us had better have a meeting after services. We've got to find somebody to play that new organ. Charles: Well, I thought Mrs. Oleson volunteered for that. Reverend Alden: That's the problem. If she plays, we'll lose half the congregation!