Quote of the Day

[iluvroadrunner6]

SAM: I don’t know—why things happen the way they do. Do you?

RAY: Goes like this, Spaceman. We live on a rock. There ain’t no rhyme, ain’t no reason. We live on a rock—just one of many in some great big cosmic jambalaya. Now, you wanna get questiony, that’s your prerogative.

CHRIS: Ray—not now—

RAY: No, listen. My ma took me to a big loud church every Sunday. She squeezed her eyes shut, she pressed her rosary beads to her lips and she prayed for good things for those she loved. But—cancer took two of her sisters, her husband couldn’t make a move without a belly full of gin, her younger son turned to a life of crime, and her oldest—me—is a nasty son of a bitch who can’t get out of third gear without a snarl. So! Who was she talking to every Sunday, and why wasn’t he answerin’? I will tell you why. Because we live on a rock, just one of many. There ain’t no answers! There’s just this. And all you can really hope to do is find a couple of people who will make the seventy or eighty odd years we get to live on this sweet swingin’ sphere remotely tolerable. [a beat] I gotta take a leak.

CHRIS: [a pause, looks at SAM] What he said.

- Life on Mars (US) 117: Life is a Rock

Comments

[makeitstopjamie.livejournal.com]

Now that is awesome and exactly why I love Ray and Life on Mars.

I had no idea you watched it. Hee.

[iluvroadrunner6.livejournal.com]

I don't really? I was watching it for a project, commenting on the differences between the American version and the British one.

But yes, Ray is awesome.

[makeitstopjamie.livejournal.com]

Interesting.

I'm still trying to wrap my head around Ray, but he's my favorite (and not just because Eric Balfour played his younger brother).

[iluvroadrunner6.livejournal.com]

Oooh -- what episode did Eric show up in? I'll have to track it down.

[makeitstopjamie.livejournal.com]

It was episode 9 "The Dark Side of the Mook" and it's a pretty interesting episode. I should know I've watched it about six times.

[iluvroadrunner6.livejournal.com]

I'll have to track it down and have a look.

[propernice.livejournal.com]

I love it. And I loved this show. Stupid ABC.

[iluvroadrunner6.livejournal.com]

I tried getting into it, but I never really got it. I was watching the finale for a paper I'm writing and I loved the way he delivered this quote in the finale.