Aunt Martha Quotes in Nebraska (2013)

Aunt Flo: Martha, where's Bart and Cole?

Aunt Martha: Oh, they're off doing some volunteer work picking up trash off the streets.

Kate Grant: It's community service; for Bart's rape.

Aunt Martha: Sexual assault!

Kate Grant: What's the difference?

Aunt Martha: A huge difference... it's... well... the boys can explain it to you better than I can...

Aunt Martha: Ray's foot's been bothering him. Ain't that right, Ray?

Uncle Ray: It's okay. Just hurts.

Aunt Martha: For a gallon of elderberry wine, I take one teaspoon full of arsenic, then add half a teaspoon full of strychnine, and then just a pinch of cyanide.

Mortimer Brewster: Hmm. Should have quite a kick.

Aunt Martha: At certain funerals, you can actually feel the liberation of a spirit from the prison where it's been a captive.

Aunt Martha: Cheryl dear, when you're older, you'll realize that the body is a prison that traps and bends the natural spirit to its will. It makes us weak or sick or ugly, it makes us into men or women or whatever it likes, whether we like it or not.

Aunt Martha: Oh, you're going to enjoy living with us so much. Yes, I know you are! As a welcome home present, I bought you such wonderful new clothes. I just hope that Richard doesn't get jealous that I didn't get him anything. Oh, but then, he is such a dear. I'm sure that he won't mind. You see, I've always wanted a little girl. But, of course, when my husband left... Oh, well, that's all water under the bridge, as I always say. Water under the bridge! But it certainly will be a nice little surprise when Richard comes home to find a little girl in the house. Yes, I've always dreamed of a little girl just like you.