Extended Reading

New in Town quotes

  • Blanche Gunderson: And that's okay? It's okay to pull the rug out from under folks as long as it's nobody that you know? It's okay because we're just silly podunk Minnesotans, right? We talk funny and we ice-fish and we scrapbook and we drag Jesus into regular conversation. We're not cool like you, right? So we don't matter.

  • Lucy Hill: [conversation at dinner table] Industrial competition in a free-market economy is what built this country.

    Ted Mitchell: No, robber barons built this country, and they did it from the blood of working folks. Hell, you steal somebody's car, you get thrown in jail, you steal somebody's life savings, you get to be a CEO.

    Lucy Hill: I'm planning on being a CEO.

    Ted Mitchell: Well, Blanche, you better count the silverware before she leaves, then.

    Lucy Hill: Oh, don't bother, I'm leaving now.

    Ted Mitchell: Not if I leave first.

    [both get up to leave together]