Mom (TV Series)

Terrorists and Gingerbread (2015)

Ellen Burstyn: Shirley

Quotes 

• Bonnie : So, what do you have?

  Shirley : It's my heart.

  Bonnie : Is it something hereditary we need to worry about?

  Shirley : No, just years of hard living finally catching up to me.

  Christy : [to Bonnie]  We should probably worry a little.

• Bonnie : Why didn't you come back for me? You said you'd come back.

  Shirley : I wanted to, Bonnie.

  Bonnie : So what happened?

  Shirley : I was working, I was trying to get together money for us to live on.

  Bonnie : Yeah and?

  Shirley : Things got complicated.

  Bonnie : What does that mean?

  Shirley : I was working as a cocktail waitress in Reno, and I met this man, and I moved in with him...

  Bonnie : And?

  Shirley : ...He said he didn't want any children around.

  Christy : Mom, I am so sorry, I swear I didn't know about this part.

  Bonnie : So, you picked your own happiness over mine?