Ouisa Quotes in Six Degrees of Separation (1993)

Ouisa: And we turn him into an anecdote, with no teeth, and a punchline you'll tell for years to come: "Oh, that reminds me of the time the imposter came into our house." "Oh! Tell the one about that boy." And we become these human jukeboxes spitting out these anecdotes to dine out on like we're doing right now. Well I will not turn him into an anecdote, it was an experience. How do we hold onto the experience?

Ouisa: I am a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes. I am all random.

Flan: What kind of behavior is this?

Ouisa: Tell me Flan, how much of your life can you account for?

Flan: Are you drunk? What's the matter with you? Don't you realize how important she is? What are you unhappy about? The Cezanne sale went through, the Matisse went through, we're rich! Rich enough. Next month there's a Bonnard.

Ouisa: These are the times I could take a knife and dig out your heart! Answer me! How much of your life...

Flan: -my life can I account for? All of it!

[pause]

Flan: I am a gambler.

Ouisa: We're a terrible match.

Flan Kittredge: Having a rich friend is like drowning and your friend makes lifeboats.

Ouisa: Only your friend gets very touchy if you say one word: lifeboat.

[first lines]

Flan: My God!

Ouisa: Is anything gone?

Flan: How can I look, I'm shaking!

Ouisa: I want to know if anything's gone!

Flan: Calm down.

Ouisa: We could have been killed! Oh, my God! The Kandinsky!

Flan: The Kandinsky!

Ouisa: It's gone, oh my God! Call the police!

Flan: Oh, no, there it is. Oh! The silver Victorian inkwell!

Ouisa: How can you think of that thing?

Flan: Here's the inkwell.

Ouisa: We could have been murdered!

Flan: A silver Jaguar. Why?

Ouisa: Slashed. Throat slashed.

Flan: There's the Degas.

Ouisa: To go to bed at night happy and then murdered. Would we have woken up?

Flan: We're alive.

Flan: I hope your muggers read every word!

Ouisa: Oh, Flan!

Ouisa: He might have a gun!

Flan: A gun?

Hustler: Yeah... I might even have a knife!