The Smoking Room (2004–2005)

Nadine Marshall: Sally

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Quotes 

• Sally : What's that book where they're all behind the wardrobe?

  Robin : Anne Frank?

  Sally : Narnia, like those Narnia books

• Annie : We're all just here to learn a lesson, and once it's sunk in we move on to a higher plain.

  Sally : Where do you pick up this crap?

  Annie : On my mystic mug. A friend brought it back from Goa, it's covered in holy writings and when you drain the dregs you can see Vishnu giving you four thumbs up.

• Annie : I've lost two people and I'm still able to smoke!

  Sally : You haven't lost two people. You've lost someone who just worked in the same building as you... and a rodent.

  Robin : [Annie bursts into slapstic tears]  Oh her bunny rabits dead.

  Len : What?

  [Looks up at the sky] 

  Len : You piss-taking bastard!

  Lilian : When did it happen, sweetheart?

  Sally : [Annie mumbles something under her tears, Lilian looks at Sally, confused]  Yesterday.

  Sally : [Annie mubles another thing, Lilian looks at Sally]  It was hopping round her flat.

  Sally : [Annie mumbles another thing, Lilian looks at Sally]  When it chewed through the televison cable.

  Sally : [Anne mumbles another thing, Lilian looks at Sally]  Poor old Bright-Eyes was...

  [They both look over at a sobbing Annie who mimics someone being electricuted. She contiues crying, Len comforts her] 

  Len : Bright-Eyes? Fucking burning - like fire!

• Sally : [talking about Annie]  ? and if she has got the clap...

  Lilian : [gasps]  Has she?

  Sally : Claims to... But then again she claimed to have met Ben Affleck in Safeways so... forget I mentioned it!

  Lilian : [after a long silence]  Who'd she catch it off?

  Sally : I shouldn't say.

  Lilian : [Robin mouths something at Lilian. Whispering]  Who?

  Robin : [after several failed attempts]  Clint!

  Lilian : Never!

  Sally : Robin! Can't the poor girl have any privacy? As if the itching ain?t enough!

• Robin : I always think that if you sit around for long enough everything will sort itself out.

  Sally : I'm not sure that plan's working.

• Annie : [talking about Sally making headline news in the local paper]  I don't know why everyone's making such a fuss - she's not the only one to make the press.

  Sally : What were you in? Readers' Wives?

  Annie : Yes. I've got no qualms about it. So what if I wasn't actually his wife? Although I was ashamed to be seen on that rug. Fake bearskin? Looked like someone had murdered Bungle.