Joan of Arcadia (TV Series)

Silence (2004)

Becky Wahlstrom: Grace Polk

Quotes 

• Grace Polk : Why did you give me that rock?

  Luke Girardi : It's a geode.

  Grace Polk : To me, it's a rock. Why?

  Luke Girardi : It was a-a gesture... of friendship. Possibly courtship.

  Grace Polk : Courtship? That went out with the corset or the Walkman, or something.

  Luke Girardi : I don't follow trends.

• Grace Polk : Did you break up with Glynis because of me?

  Luke Girardi : Of course not. Don't be ridiculous.

  Grace Polk : Okay, I won't, because that would be ridiculous. So let's not go there.

  Luke Girardi : Right.

  [she turns to leave] 

  Luke Girardi : Why is that ridiculous?

  Grace Polk : I'm friends with your sister.

  Luke Girardi : Right.

  Grace Polk : I'm older than you.

  Luke Girardi : A year. Eight months, actually.

• Grace Polk : I have a reputation. I've worked hard to build it. Do you know what my reputation is?

  Luke Girardi : You hate me?

  Grace Polk : I'm anti.

  Luke Girardi : Okay. Anti what?

  Grace Polk : What have you got?

  Luke Girardi : So, you're never gonna fall in love.

  Grace Polk : I'm never even gonna fall in like. And I'm certainly not going to be courted by some rocket-head geek. I mean, if it got around school that you were giving me things?

  Luke Girardi : What do you care what people think? I mean, if you're anti. You know, shouldn't you like the idea of us if you're so anti?

  Grace Polk : I'm not that anti.

  Luke Girardi : Oh, so you're moderately anti.

  Grace Polk : Look, geek...

  Luke Girardi : And besides, you know, love is irrational. It's like this anesthetic goes off in your brain eliminating all reason so the act of procreation can occur.

  Grace Polk : Hey, hey.

  Luke Girardi : It's a natural state of imbalance built into the whole system, you know? A chemical reaction necessary to the conditions required for Darwinistic...

  Grace Polk : Look, I am not into you, got it?

  Luke Girardi : Right.

  [after a pause, they start to kiss] 

• Joan's Doctor : Lyme disease, caused by a tick bite. Could have been lying dormant in her system for a long time. The rash on her leg gave it away, which is fortunate, 'cause sometimes the rash is overlooked, and the symptoms of this disease are misdiagnosed.

  Helen Girardi : How?

  Joan's Doctor : Manifests in subtle ways at first. Moodiness, extreme changes in behavior.

  Luke Girardi : That's every girl. They're all infected.

  [Grace gives him a dirty look] 

  Joan's Doctor : But later on, it becomes more serious. Scattered thinking, lack of concentration, and eventually aural, even visual, hallucinations. Sometimes people are misdiagnosed as being mentally ill.

  Grace Polk : This is clearing up a lot for me.

• Grace Polk : What's with the flea bites? STD already? I thought there was an incubation period.

  Joan : A little louder, please.

  Grace Polk : You seem kind of sweaty.

  Joan : All this blatant flattery. I feel really great about myself.

  Grace Polk : Does this have anything to do with... the do?

  Joan : What "do"?

  Grace Polk : That you did with Rove.

  Joan : But I didn't.

  Grace Polk : Everybody knows about the hotel.

  Friedman : [passing by]  Congratulations, and thank you for putting the sub-defectives on the map.

  Joan : Whoa. Nothing happened, okay? Adam just... cleaned the carpet.

  Friedman : I like. And the carpet seems very shiny today.

  Joan : [softly slapping him]  You pig!

• Joan : I don't feel so good.

  Grace Polk : Friedman is a termite. Come on, buck up. You can't miss the Liberation Festival on the lawn. Student/faculty egg and spoon race, hmm? Who needs drugs?

  Joan : Uh, I feel kind of dizzy.

  Friedman : And hot.

  Joan : Shut it!

  Friedman : I mean... I meant hot.

  Joan : Okay, I'm-I'm gonna do some vomiting. I'll be back.

• Joan : Oh, I'm sick.

  Luke Girardi : Why don't you find mom and go home?

  Joan : I went to the office and they said she'd left, and I can't find Adam.

  Grace Polk : Oh, look, they made it three-legged this year. Inspired choice, tying yourself to a faculty member. I've had that dream.

  Luke Girardi : I need to find Adam.

  Luke Girardi : Hornsby's the one to beat. Three-year reigning champion.

  Grace Polk : The typing teacher? He's, like, 80.

  Joan : Where is he? Is he at the library?

  Grace Polk : Are you talking to your little invisible friend?

• Gavin Price : So, who wants a shot at beating Hornsby? He's going down. Ms. Polk, here's your chance to humiliate a faculty member.

  Grace Polk : Oh, they don't need my help.