Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990)

Winona Ryder: Dinky Bossetti

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• [in English class, Dinky has been asked to read out her poem] 

  Dinky Bossetti : From a deep, immaculate kiss, she spread her two ripe, dripping limbs. And then I happened.

  Miss Day Ashburn : I beg your pardon?

  Dinky Bossetti : And the moon throbbed and fought with an angry sun. All that day and all that night. Until it forced me out.

  Miss Day Ashburn : Dinky.

  [steps away from her desk, moves next to Gerald and starts directing the poem at him. He squirms with embarrassment] 

  Dinky Bossetti : Now I scald here... alone. Touch me. With your white words and your dead hands. Now, before I freeze.

  Miss Day Ashburn : That'll be enough!

  Dinky Bossetti : And become one of you.

  Miss Day Ashburn : DINKY!

  Dinky Bossetti : You interrupted me.

• Dinky Bossetti : Who understands ANYONE these days... who WANTS to?

  Gerald Howells : Gosh, I want to kiss you so bad, Dinky...

  Dinky Bossetti : It's good to want things...

• Dinky Bosseti : [referring to her adopted mother]  We just don't fit. It happens. It's not gonna matter after Friday, anyway.

  Elizabeth Zaks : Why, because Roxy Carmichael's coming home?

  Dinky Bosseti : Because my mother's coming to get me.

  Elizabeth Zaks : Your mother? Wait a minute Dinky, I don't think I understand.

  Dinky Bosseti : It's not for you to understand, really.

• Dinky Bosseti : I'm sorry if I embarassed you the other day. I kind of got carried away.

  Gerald Howells : [he smiles, until his friend walks up and interrupts]  You embarrassed yourself.

  Dinky Bosseti : I'm going to laugh at you someday, Gerald Howells.

• Rochelle : Dinky Dean Bossetti, is that the yellow sweater I bought for you last week? That was a thirty-two dollar sweater, missy, and you dyed it black, didn't you? After you promised me you wouldn't.

  Dinky : Correction. I didn't promise I wouldn't. I said I'd try not to.

• Les Bossetti : [after Dinky has caused a scene at Roxy Carmichael's home]  We have a sale on outdoor Weatherweave next week! Do you know how bad this is for public relations? Hell, I'll be lucky if I sell five bolts.

  Rochelle : Gloria Sykes was there and she is going to tell everybody about this.

  [awkward pause; Dinky says nothing] 

  Rochelle : Don't you have anything to say?

  Dinky Bossetti : About the carpet sale or Gloria Sykes?

• Dinky Bossetti : Once when I was six and a quarter, Mrs. Bosetti and I sat down and we talked.

  Elizabeth Zaks : So, what happened?

  Dinky Bossetti : Well... I told her I preferred books to dolls, boots to ballet slippers and that my idea of a family vacation was for all of us to go work on the Alaskan pipeline.

• Dinky Bossetti : [about her adoptive mother]  You want to know what she calls a penis? Guess.

  Elizabeth Zaks : I don't know.

  Dinky Bossetti : Come on, guess.

  [pause] 

  Dinky Bossetti : A "hoo-hoo".

  Elizabeth Zaks : Uh-huh.

  Dinky Bossetti : You wouldn't believe what she calls a vagina.

• Dinky Bossetti : [her pig is eating her dog's food]  Don't be such a cliché! Try to be a cut above!

• Dinky Bossetti : [discussing her adoptive mother]  She told everyone she thought she had Rosemary's baby. She had a thing about that movie.