The Royal Tenenbaums

Family isn't a word... it's a sentence.

"I always wanted to be a Tenenbaum."
"Me too, me too."

    --  Eli and Royal
 

"I wish you'd've done this for me when I was a kid."
"But you didn't have a drug problem then."
"Yeah, but it still would've meant a lot to me."

    --  Eli and Richie
 

"He got the cancer."

    --  Pagoda
 

"Anyone want to get some cheeseburgers and hit the cemetery?"

    --  Royal
 

"The crickets and the rust-beetles scuttled among the nettles of the sage thicket. 'Vamanos, amigos,' he whispered, and threw the busted leather flintcraw over the loose weave of the saddlecock. And they rode on in the friscalating dusklight."

    --  Eli
 

"I'm not in love with you any more."
"I didn't ever know that you were."
"Let's not make this any more difficult than it already is."

    --  Eli and Margot
 

"I think we're just gonna to have to be secretly in love with each other and leave it at that, Richie."

    --  Margot
 

"Can we read it?"
"No."
"Can you paraphrase it for us?"
"I don't think so."
"Is it dark?"
"Of course it's dark. It's a suicide note."

    --  Chas and Richie
 

"Can the boy tell time?"
"Oh, my Lord, no!"

    --  Medical Student and Raleigh
 

"Well, I don't think it's very intelligent to keep an electrical gadget on the edge of the tub."
"I tie it to the radiator."

    --  Ethel and Margot
 

"I did find it odd when you said you were in love with her. She's married you know."
"Yeah."
"And she's your sister."
"Adopted."

    --  Eli and Richie
 

"That's the last time you put a knife in me! Y'hear me?"

    --  Royal


"The past six days have been the best six days of probably my whole life."
"Immediately after making this statement, Royal realized that it was true."

    --  Royal and Narrator