The Gilded Age (TV Series)

Close Enough to Touch (2023)

Louisa Jacobson: Marian Brook

Quotes 

• Agnes Van Rhijn : What about you, Bannister? Did you know Miss Ada is engaged to marry the Reverend Mr. Forte?

  Bannister : Oh. Congratulations, Miss Ada.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : Do not congratulate her.

  Bannister : I'm sorry?

  Agnes Van Rhijn : Rescind your congratulations.

  Marian Brook : Aunt Agnes, this is silly.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : Please do not tell me how to speak to my own butler!

  Bannister : My apologies, Miss Ada, but I must cancel my congratulations at Mrs. Van Rhijn's request.

  Ada Brook : I quite understand, Bannister.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : This marriage would be a disgrace. What would our parents think if I were to say nothing and let this happen?

  Marian Brook : So you try to please the dead by bullying the living?

• Marian Brook : I thought you were spending the summer in Newport.

  Larry Russell : Unfortunately, my plans changed.

  Marian Brook : Unfortunately?

  Larry Russell : You don't want to hear it.

  Marian Brook : But I do.

  Larry Russell : It wasn't very original... lovers meet, lovers part, boo hoo.

• Marian Brook : Don't weaken. Not when your happiness is close enough to touch.

• Marian Brook : And now we're even. Twin sufferers on the cruel carousel of life.

  Larry Russell : Let's be comrades in arms instead.

• Marian Brook : Aunt Agnes is strong. She'll get used to it. She can punch nails through a wall with her bare hands and not notice.

  Ada Brook : She could certainly punch me through a wall. And it sounds like she intends to do just that.