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Lincoln’s ex-wife, who never appears on stage. Still, the brothers talk about her, and Booth explains that she came to the apartment one night when her marriage with Lincoln was falling apart. Apparently, she complained that Lincoln was having impotency problems, and expressed a desire to have extramarital relations (just as Lincoln himself was having with other women). As such, she and Booth had sex. Booth tells this to Lincoln as a way of taunting him, saying, “I had her. Yr damn wife. Right in that bed.” Lincoln, for his part, is indifferent, merely saying, “I dont think about her no more.”
Cookie Quotes in Topdog/Underdog
The Topdog/Underdog quotes below are all either spoken by Cookie or refer to Cookie. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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All she knew was you couldnt get it up. You couldnt get it up with her so in her head you was tired of her and had gone out to screw somebody new and this time maybe werent never coming back.
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She had me pour her a drink or 2. I didnt want to. She wanted to get back at you by having some fun of her own and when I told her to go out and have it, she said she wanted to have her fun right here. With me.
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And then, just like that, she changed her mind.
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But she’d hooked me. That bad part of me that I fight down everyday. You beat yrs down and it stays there dead but mine keeps coming up for another round. And the bad part of me took her clothing off and carried her into thuh bed and had her, Link, yr Cookie. It wasnt just thuh bad part of me it was all of me, man, I had her. Yr damn wife. Right in that bed.
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Cookie Quotes in Topdog/Underdog
The Topdog/Underdog quotes below are all either spoken by Cookie or refer to Cookie. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Scene Six
Quotes
All she knew was you couldnt get it up. You couldnt get it up with her so in her head you was tired of her and had gone out to screw somebody new and this time maybe werent never coming back.
(Rest)
She had me pour her a drink or 2. I didnt want to. She wanted to get back at you by having some fun of her own and when I told her to go out and have it, she said she wanted to have her fun right here. With me.
(Rest)
And then, just like that, she changed her mind.
(Rest)
But she’d hooked me. That bad part of me that I fight down everyday. You beat yrs down and it stays there dead but mine keeps coming up for another round. And the bad part of me took her clothing off and carried her into thuh bed and had her, Link, yr Cookie. It wasnt just thuh bad part of me it was all of me, man, I had her. Yr damn wife. Right in that bed.
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