Social Worker Quotes in Mockingbird Don't Sing (2001)

Social Worker: Who is that with you?

Louise Standon: That's Katie, my daughter.

Social Worker: How old are you, Katie?

Louise Standon: She'll be fourteen in April.

Social Worker: [the police and social welfare people have arrived to close the store, arrest Danni's father and put her in foster care... a crowd outside has gathered] We'll make arrangements with your mother to have the inventory accounted for.

Michael Dunn: [rushing in] They made this happen, didn't they?

Danni: [crying] Nobody made this happen.

[Dunn embraces her]

Danni: I just don't want you to be sad... 'cause I'm not. Promise?

Michael Dunn: [fighting tears] No.

Social Worker: We have to go.

Michael Dunn: [running up to car Danni has just been loaded in] Well, hey listen, I'm glad I got to dance with you

[car speeds off, leaving a dazed Dunn in the street]

Rooney: Don't worry, Dunn... we'll find her.

Social Worker: She wanted me to enroll in one of these, uh , oh, aw... whadda you call it? Ah, Anger Management courses.

Dorian Lagatos: How'd you feel about that?

Social Worker: Pissed me off!

[first lines]

Romulus Ledbetter: Don't you watch me! You think you're gonna crawl into my brain and see a show? That what I am? Is that what you think?

Social Worker: What I think, Mr. Ledbetter, is that the temperature is dropping.

Romulus Ledbetter: I got freezing temperatures all over my brain. And I got legends of angels up there! Like little moths, and they'll beat the hell out of you with their wings!

Social Worker: Andy? You still dreamin' about Chucky?

Andy Barclay: Sometimes.

Social Worker: You wanna talk about it?

Andy Barclay: [firmly] No.

Social Worker: Come on Andy. Remember what I told you? Talking helps make the

Social Worker, Andy Barclay: nightmares go away.

Andy Barclay: Well, Chucky was trying to take over my soul.

Social Worker: Why Andy?

Andy Barclay: There was this bad man who got inside my Good Guy doll. So he wouldn't have to go to Hell, but then he wanted to get inside me.

Social Worker: Why?

Andy Barclay: 'Cause if he stayed inside the doll too long. He'd get trapped in there. He needed me 'cause I was the first person he told his secret to.

Social Worker: What secret?

Andy Barclay: That his real name was Charles Lee Ray.

Social Worker: Boy, that's a scary dream.

Andy Barclay: It was.

Social Worker: You know dreams can't hurt ya. Dreams aren't real. Right?

Andy Barclay: [smiles] Right.