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Lafayette Reynolds

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Nelsan EllisNelsan Ellis
Nelsan Ellis (born c. 1978) is an award-winning American film and television actor and playwright, perhaps ...

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Lafayette Reynolds Quotes

04x01 - She's Not There Season 4 / Episode 1: - She's Not There

Lafayette Reynolds: [about the coven] We'll stay for five minutes. Ten if they got dranks.
04x01 - She's Not There Season 4 / Episode 1: - She's Not There

Lafayette Reynolds: [about the Moon Goddess Emporuim] It smells like where old incense go to die.
03x09 - Everything is Broken Season 3 / Episode 9: - Everything is Broken

Jesus Velasquez: [to Ruby Jean] You almost done in there? it's time for us to go home.
Ruby Jean Reynolds: [Ruby Jean walks in all made up] You have got an excellent selection a cosmetics, I give you that.


Ruby Jean Reynolds: I'm ready for you now. Ain't nothin gonna hurt me when I got on my warpaint.


Ruby Jean Reynolds: Somethin' different about you.
Lafayette Reynolds: I don't think so.
Ruby Jean Reynolds: Y'ain't got your mask on.
Lafayette Reynolds: That's 'cause you've been in there hogging all my stuff.
Ruby Jean Reynolds: I can see you. My son is shining through.


Ruby Jean Reynolds: Did he do this to you?
Lafayette Reynolds: No. Yeah. I guess you could say that.
Ruby Jean Reynolds: I'll be damned. Maybe God LOVES fags!
Jesus Velasquez: That sounds like a compliment. Ruby, we gotta go. Come on. You need to bless the jello so everyone can eat. Come on!
Lafayette Reynolds: All right now, you go 'head. Without my ring, thank you.
Ruby Jean Reynolds: Come see me, LaLa.
Lafayette Reynolds: All right, Miss Lady, eat your vegetables.
Jesus Velasquez: So I'll see you?
Lafayette Reynolds: I'll see you.
03x09 - Everything is Broken Season 3 / Episode 9: - Everything is Broken

Jesus Velasquez: A visit from the chef. Wow. It's my lucky day!
Lafayette Reynolds: I wanted to meet the sick fuck who ordered the veggie burger with bacon.
Jesus Velasquez: I was just curious to see if you'd actually do it.
Lafayette Reynolds: Boyfriend, for you, I'd do all kind of things against my better judgment.
Jesus Velasquez: That's why I come back. For the personal service.
Lafayette Reynolds: You don't finish that, and you ain't getting no dessert.
03x07 - Hitting the Ground Season 3 / Episode 7: - Hitting the Ground

Lafayette Reynolds: I think over again my small adventures, my fears, those small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and reach and yet there is only one great thing, the only thing to live to see the great day that dawns and the light that fills the world.
Jason Stackhouse: That's beautiful.
Lafayette Reynolds: That's because that shit is Inuit. And we all is used to lesser religions.
03x04 - 9 Crimes Season 3 / Episode 4: - 9 Crimes

Lafayette Reynolds: Ring, ring hookah! Ring, Ring!
03x02 - Beautifully Broken Season 3 / Episode 2: - Beautifully Broken

Lettie Mae Thornton: [rushing to the bathroom] What are you doing to her?
Lafayette Reynolds: [carrying Tara] Savin' her life! You're to busy praisin' Jesus to realize your daughter's tryin' to move in with him permanently!
03x02 - Beautifully Broken Season 3 / Episode 2: - Beautifully Broken

Lafayette Reynolds: With a momma like you it's a miracle she ain't tried this years ago!
Lettie Mae Thornton: Where are you takin' her?
Lafayette Reynolds: Hospital!
Tara Thornton: [crying] No, no!
Lettie Mae Thornton: I'm goin' with you.
Lafayette Reynolds: You failed this girl for the last time.
03x02 - Beautifully Broken Season 3 / Episode 2: - Beautifully Broken

Tara Thornton: I don't need to go to the hosptial. Just pull over please.
Lafayette Reynolds: [drives to a stop] You tried to kill yourself!
Tara Thornton: I didn't plan it. I just saw the bottles and I thought... enough. I deserve some peace.
03x02 - Beautifully Broken Season 3 / Episode 2: - Beautifully Broken

Tara Thornton: What the hell is wrong with me, Lafayette?
Lafayette Reynolds: Life ain't not having problems, Tara! It's about being able to deal with the ones you got.
Tara Thornton: Well, obviously I can't.
Lafayette Reynolds: You can and you will, if I gotta drag your narrow ass through this world kicking and screaming. Buddha wasn't lying when he said life is suffering. It don't mean you get to check out early and leave me here.
03x02 - Beautifully Broken Season 3 / Episode 2: - Beautifully Broken

Jesus Velasquez: [as Tara & Lafayette enter] Can I help you?
Ruby Jean Reynolds: [clearly out of it] No. That's just my son, Lafayette.
Lafayette Reynolds: Hi momma.
Jesus Velasquez: [to Ruby Jean] You told me your son passed away.
Ruby Jean Reynolds: He did. God killed him, 'cause he's a faggot. But he keeps comin' back.
03x02 - Beautifully Broken Season 3 / Episode 2: - Beautifully Broken

Tara Thornton: [about Ruby Jean] Why didn't you tell me?
Lafayette Reynolds: She made me promise not to. Didn't want nobody seein' her like this.
Tara Thornton: But six months, Lafayette? Alone in this place? Even she didn't deserve that.
Lafayette Reynolds: That's right. She don't deserve it. You know much it cost keepin' her here? More than two legal jobs worth. That's how much.
03x02 - Beautifully Broken Season 3 / Episode 2: - Beautifully Broken

Tara Thornton: [about Ruby Jean] You think I could end up like her?
Lafayette Reynolds: There's some darkness in this family, Tara. My momma, your momma. But they ain't strong enough to beat it. We are!
03x02 - Beautifully Broken Season 3 / Episode 2: - Beautifully Broken

Lafayette Reynolds: [before they leave the hospital] Is you feelin' me?
Tara Thornton: I'm feelin' you.
Lafayette Reynolds: Is we clear?
Tara Thornton: We clear.
Lafayette Reynolds: We got it?
Tara Thornton: We got it.
Lafayette Reynolds: Alright now.
03x01 - Bad Blood Season 3 / Episode 1: - Bad Blood

Lafayette Reynolds: [to Lettie Mae] Bitch! You, me, bridge ain't gonna never motherfuckin' happen.
03x01 - Bad Blood Season 3 / Episode 1: - Bad Blood

Lafayette Reynolds: You fellin' all floaty yet?
Tara Thornton: [broken] Kinda.
Lafayette Reynolds: Good. Tequila and klonopin, baby girl. A steady diet of that will keep them thoughts away 'til y'alls more equipped to deal with them.
03x01 - Bad Blood Season 3 / Episode 1: - Bad Blood

Sookie Stackhouse: [comes in, seeing her crying] Tara?
Tara Thornton: [sobbing] It's Eggs.
Sookie Stackhouse: What happened?
Lafayette Reynolds: They shot him.
Sookie Stackhouse: What? Who?
Lafayette Reynolds: Andy Bellefleur said Eggs came at him with a knife, confessing to killing those women and cuttin' out their hearts.
Tara Thornton: The fuck he know any of that?
Sookie Stackhouse: Oh my god. Tara, he came to me earlier today. Said he needed help 'membering what Maryann made him do. So, so I helped him.
03x01 - Bad Blood Season 3 / Episode 1: - Bad Blood

Lettie Mae: [about Tara] How is she?
Lafayette Reynolds: [going to get in his car] Sleepin' finally. So keep it down. I don't wanna wake her up.
Lettie Mae: Thank you for callin' me.
Lafayette Reynolds: This ain't about you and me building a bridge into our future together, alright? You SHOT a gun at me! But you know what, I don't even have the time. I got two jobs, both of which I need. One of which I already didn't show up for today.
03x01 - Bad Blood Season 3 / Episode 1: - Bad Blood

Lafayette Reynolds: [to Lettie Mae] Do everybody a solid. Instead of looking up at a god that let all this shit happen, you need to keep your eyes on your fucking daughter. She ain't right to be alone.
02x11 - Frenzy Season 2 / Episode 11: - Frenzy

Lafayette Reynolds: What was it like inside Tara's head?
Sookie Stackhouse: Like there was no limit. Like anything could happen and probably will. You feel your insides expanding but there's also this... this emptying out right at the very center of your being and you don't want it to stop, ever.
Lafayette Reynolds: Damn, that's deep.
02x11 - Frenzy Season 2 / Episode 11: - Frenzy

Sookie Stackhouse: How's your leg?
Lafayette Reynolds: [flexing his knee] Better than ever.
Sookie Stackhouse: How'd that happen?
Lafayette Reynolds: Eric made me drink his mother-fuckin' blood is how that happened.
Sookie Stackhouse: Me too. He tricked me!
Lafayette Reynolds: Somebody need to slap that bitch.
Sookie Stackhouse: I have.
Lafayette Reynolds: [proud] Look at you.
Sookie Stackhouse: Have you had... any dreams about him?
Lafayette Reynolds: [incredulously] Now Sook, how would you know about that?
Sookie Stackhouse: What kind of dreams?
Lafayette Reynolds: He's always in my head. Sex dreams is all kinda nasty and fantastic, which freaks me the fuck outs because I hates that mother-fucker more than you'll ever know.
02x11 - Frenzy Season 2 / Episode 11: - Frenzy

Sookie Stackhouse: [in the trees, looking at her home] My gran lived and died in that house and now it's like people who were the exact opposite of everything she was... are defiling her... I almost got raped in Dallas, but this is so much worse.
Lafayette Reynolds: Don't take it personal, Sook. They ain't themselves and they're not doin' it on purpose.
Sookie Stackhouse: First time I met Maryann I knew there was somethin' seriously off about her. She was thinkin' creepy foreign stuff and I could tell it wasn't good.
Lafayette Reynolds: You couldn't have stopped this.
Sookie Stackhouse: How come there's so much wrong in the world, Lafayette? How come so many people are willing to do bad things and hurt other people?
Lafayette Reynolds: 'Cause they're weak.
Sookie Stackhouse: Well I am not weak and I am not afraid! I am gonna kick that evil bitch's ass outta my gran's house.
02x10 - New World in My View Season 2 / Episode 10: - New World in My View

Lafayette Reynolds: This has got to be the worst motherfuckin' intervention in history.
02x10 - New World in My View Season 2 / Episode 10: - New World in My View

Lafayette Reynolds: If ever there was a time to listen to a white man, Tara, this would be it.
02x10 - New World in My View Season 2 / Episode 10: - New World in My View

Lettie Mae Thornton: [during Tara's intervention] If only Miss Jeanette was still alive.
Lafayette Reynolds: She don't need no backwoods witch. She needs Thorazine and a padded cell.
02x10 - New World in My View Season 2 / Episode 10: - New World in My View

Lafayette Reynolds: [to Bill about selling V] Hey, slow your roll. It ain't even me. Talk to your boy Eric. He's the one got me pushin' the shit.
02x09 - I Will Rise Up Season 2 / Episode 9: - I Will Rise Up

Lafayette Reynolds: [to Tara about Eggs] He's poison! He ain't never gonna change and he may wind up killing you!
02x09 - I Will Rise Up Season 2 / Episode 9: - I Will Rise Up

Tara Thornton: [seeing Lafayette and Lettie Mae] Ah well. Looky here. Aliens.
Maryann Forrester: Ooh. Who's that?
Tara Thornton, Eggs: Lafayette.
Maryann Forrester: Ooh. Lafayette, Ms. Thornton. Welcome, join us!
Lafayette Reynolds: No. We're good.
Lettie Mae Thornton: I'm takin' my daughter away from you.
Tara Thornton: Is that right?
Lafayette Reynolds: Yeah, that's right.
Lettie Mae Thornton: [to Tara] Child, listen to me this one time for once in your life.
Maryann Forrester: [as she, Tara and Eggs laugh] Don't be ridiculous. Take a load off. We're in the middle of a game.
02x09 - I Will Rise Up Season 2 / Episode 9: - I Will Rise Up

Lafayette Reynolds: [to Tara] What's wrong with you, Tara? Are you even in there?
02x08 - Timebomb Season 2 / Episode 8: - Timebomb

Lafayette Reynolds: I'm gonna go clean a grill or somethin'!

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