Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville in Ordinary Love (2019)

Quotes

Ordinary Love

Joan: You know, when this all started I thought that, if I made it through, the experience would somehow change me. I don't think it has. I don't think I want it to.

Joan: Do you notice anything different about the soup?
Tom: There is. What is it?
Joan: You tell me.
Tom: Is this a quiz? If I get it right, do I get another bowl of soup?

Tom: Why didn't she check your lungs when she was removing the lump?
Joan: I don't know, Tom. She-she can't just put a hand in and move things out of the way and take a peek.
Tom: How do you know they don't do that? Are you a doctor now?

Tom: So, what do you and your hairdresser talk about?
Joan: You and what an idiot you are.
Tom: An idiot who has a pair of scissors in his hands.

Tom: He doesn't look gay.
Joan: No. But then you don't look...
Tom: [interrupts] Easy tiger!
[Joan smiles]

Tom: I can go now? I've done enough groping?
[Joan laughs]

Joan: I know I've got it
Tom: So you're a doctor now?
Joan: You don't have to be a doctor to know things like that.
Tom: Yes, you do.
[Joan sighs]

Woman #2: When you're at your worst, what you're going though is better than the alternative.

Joan: It's only a fish.
Tom: You still have to feed it.
Joan: Flush it.
Tom: *Flush you.*

Tom: In situations like this, you have to be exact.
Joan: Oh, I'm sorry, Tom. Are we in a hospital or are we in a courtroom?

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