1994
Susan: Do you think there’s anything in the parenting manual about what to do when your Son shoots a neighbour?
Karl: I know that look; you’ve been up to mischief haven’t you?
Susan: I know that look; you’d like to get up to mischief wouldn’t you?
Karl: Tell me something how is it we’ve managed to stay married for so long.
Susan: Because you love me and because you’re never quite sure when I’m having a go at you and when I’m not.
1995
Karl: I hate it when we fight.
Susan: Me too. But I love it when we make up.
Susan: I did it because I couldn't stand to see her suffering. She was in so much pain. Terrible pain. And I'm still not sure that it was right....oh that's not what I mean. Sometimes I think that the only reason that she didn't want anyone else to know was because she was frightened that they'd think that she was a coward. That she couldn't take it. It was always very important to mum that everyone would think she was the rock of Gibraltar, you know? That she could cope with anything. But she said, that it was because she didn't think that anyone else would be strong enough to help her or to forgive her and I think I finally know what she meant now.
1996
Susan: She affected you Karl. Maybe in the same way Kenya affected me.
Susan: If she hadn’t of been sick, if I hadn’t of been due home would she have been a threat to our marriage?
Karl: It’s not that I don’t love you, it’s just I can’t get Kate out of my mind.
Susan: I’m starting to wonder if it’s just too late.
Karl: So it’s come to this – I’ve driven you to drink.
Karl: You’re leaving something out here. You’re forgetting the simple fact is that it’s you I love. It’s you I want to spend the rest of my life with.
Susan: (to Libby) You’ve got to try and understand that he and I turned up to this dance without any partners and we’re dancing together this long not because of you kids but because we love each other.
Karl: You’re one in a million you know that?
Susan: Just a million?
Karl: I couldn’t live without you, I couldn’t.
Susan: Me too.
Susan: I’m glad you sorted things out with him.
Karl: You thanked me last night.
1997
Karl: Susan I love you. Now you should know that better than anyone, I am not going to let anything threaten that.
Susan: Karl I love you.
Karl: I know that.
Susan: I would never, never do anything to jeopardise us.
Karl: I know that too. What can I say I’m an idiot.
Susan: You’re my idiot that’s something.
Karl: As long as you remember we’ve had a wonderful marriage, we’ve got 3 fabulous, healthy, intelligent kids, we’ve got our very own Toadfish. We’ve got a great future to look forward to.
Susan: Just promise me one thing.
Karl: Name it.
Susan: You’ll always be right here.
Karl: That’s a deal.
Karl: What about me? Have you thought about what I might want?
Susan: It’s pretty obvious what you want or what you don’t want.
Karl: I’m allowed to have an opinion aren’t I? I assume you would like me to be the father of this child.
Karl: I’m not just thinking about the baby here, I’m thinking about you. You can’t ignore these risks. What would I do if lost you? Just tell me that. What would I do if I didn’t have you?
Susan: Karl do you love me? Because I love you more than ever and that’s why I want this.
Karl: I love you very much and so do the kids, we all need you.
Karl: Every Martin I’ve ever known is dodgy.
Susan: I would paint you in lurid colours, standing naked before an open window with a stethoscope around your neck.
Karl: That’s very interesting. Why the stethoscope?
Susan: I don’t know, I just said it.
Karl: There’s a school of thought that believes whatever you say, however flippantly it has meaning.
Susan: I would choose a stethoscope because it symbolises your ability to listen to the deep places in my heart.
Karl: Oh that’s beautiful. Did you just make that up?
Susan: Yes of course I did.
Karl: That’s very interesting.
Susan: Yes thank you Dr Freud.
Karl: Would you like to paint me?
Susan: I don’t paint.
Karl: But if you did paint.
Susan: Oh Karl I hate it when you go on like this.
Karl: Oh come on it’s an interesting physiological question.
Susan: No, no it’s not, it’s really not.
Karl: Oh right, I’m sorry I wont say another word.
Susan: I wonder how you’d paint me.
Karl: Fully clothed.
Susan: I knew you’d have to say something that lasted three seconds. Why fully clothed?
Karl: Well I happen to believe that unseen nakedness is far more enticing that having everything on display.
Susan: You sweet old-fashioned thing. How do you feel about hot choccie in bed?
Karl: What could be better.
Susan: That’s what I love about you, you have very low expectations.
Karl: Why the open window?
Susan: Oh Karl enough.
Karl: Come on really why?
Susan: Probably so I could shove you through it afterwards.
Karl: That’s very interesting.
Karl: Look I could come up with a million excuses why you should stay for the kids or something like that, but the fact is I don’t want you to go to Wangaratta because I’d miss you too much. I don’t think I could cope if I only saw you on the weekends. You can’t blame a man for loving you too much can you?
Susan: I don’t like the idea of you discussing our business with your receptionist.
Susan: This is something that really matters to me Lib, and if he’s not careful he’s going to lose me completely.
Susan: When you said that you didn’t think our marriage couldn’t survive a separation you might as well have taken out a gun and shot me.
Karl: I’m so sorry.
Susan: How could you even think that? That was as if everything I’ve ever believed in was just a lie because you obviously didn’t think there was any foundation to this relationship at all.
Karl: I just wanted you to see things my way. I was prepared to try every trick in the book. I’m so sorry. I wouldn’t blame you if you said it would take a while to forgive me because I’ve been a total idiot.
Susan: That’s the man I thought I was married to. That’s the one I can’t stay angry at for too long.
1998
Susan: I never imagined actually looking for somewhere to live without you. It’s really sad.
Karl: Words cannot say how much I love you, how much I’m going to miss you.
Susan: Husbands only buy lingerie for their wives when they’re having affairs.
Sarah: To tell you the truth I’m in love with someone else.
Karl: Why don’t you just follow up with this other person?
Sarah: I can’t.
Karl: Why’s that?
Sarah: Because the person I’m in love with is you.
Susan: You play golf with her in the morning, you come and spend all day at work with her then you help her study at night. If I didn’t know better I’d say you were having an affair.
Karl: There is only one dynamic duo in this town. You will always be my wonder woman.
Phil: From what I’ve seen you and Sarah are getting a lot closer than employee and employer.
Karl: (with selective memory) I happen to love Susan very much. I have never cheated on her; I will never cheat on her.
Kim: I can cope with the disappointment, but will Susan when she finds out?
Karl: If you say one thing to Susan I swear I’ll….
Kim: I wont have to, she’s a smart woman she’ll work it out for herself. If you were a halfway decent bloke you set her straight Karl. Doesn’t your wife at least deserve that?
Karl: (To Phil) There is something between Sarah and I, an attraction I thought we had our feelings under control but obviously not.
Karl: Maybe I’m having a mid life crisis!
Karl: I love Susan very, very much.
Phil: She’s the best.
Karl: I enjoy Sarah’s company – she’s a terrific girl.
Phil: She’s not for you.
Sarah: I know he loves Susan and his family and nothing can ever come of it.
Karl: (To Toadie) What is happening between Sarah and I is not an affair. It’s not sordid.
Susan: You’ve been doing that a lot lately you know – just drifting off.
Sarah: I’m still in love with you Karl. I knew was in love with you even before we kissed. Did you know that?
Karl: Yeah I suppose I did.
Sarah: But you didn’t feel the same way then and you don’t feel the same way now either.
Karl: No, you’re wrong. It’s not a one sided thing, never was. I wouldn’t want you to think that. But there’s no future in it can’t you see that? I don’t want you wasting your life away in some seedy caravan park waiting for something that’s not going to happen. You’ve got your life to lead, all that training, all that potential.
Sarah: So that’s it is it?
Karl: Sarah please try to understand. I do love you but I love Susan, I love my kids. What can I do? I’m sorry; it’s just too difficult. Wrong time, wrong place.
Susan: You must have so little respect for me if you can just lie and cheat and betray me like that. I trusted you. I believed everything you ever said to me.
Susan: What has happened is between your father and I. I don’t want it to change your relationship with him.
Sarah: All I’ve done is fall in love with Karl, that’s all. I don’t have anything to feel guilty about.
Libby: What? My Mother has just kicked my Father out of the house. If I were you I am damned sure I’d be feeling just a twinge of something like guilt.
Libby: My parents have split up.
Lou: What when did this happen?
Libby: Its been going on for ages. Right under my Mum’s nose.
Lou: What has?
Libby: Sarah.
Sarah: You once said that you loved me but that it wasn’t the right time. Well maybe now it is. I know everything I’m trying to say is coming out wrong and I understand that you’re hurting and if I could do anything to stop that I would.
Karl: You can’t.
Sarah: You said that you cared about me.
Karl: I know I did.
Sarah: That can’t have changed.
Karl: It has. When I said those things to you it was me speaking but it was the outside part of me, the part of me that deals with the outside world, puts on faces and attitudes. It isn’t real.
Sarah: I know what you said. I know how it felt when we were near each other.
Karl: Now I feel that part of me isn’t here anymore because Susan made that part of me exist. Without her I’m not the person you cared for. I’m not any person because she made me real.
Susan: I can see trouble coming across a school ground and I can’t read my own husband.
Karl: I’m a lot of stupid things, but I love you.
Susan: Don’t you dare play that card it’s not fair.
Karl: Susan and I have separated temporarily.
Harold: I take it there’s some connection between this event and Sarah leaving.
Harold: I’m going to have great difficulty working for a man who has so little regard for his wife and family that he has an affair with his receptionist.
Susan: We’ve been together for so long it’s really hard trying not to think about him.
Susan: I doubt it ever was an affair till the very end; Karl’s not brave enough for that.
Karl: I’m sorry.
Susan: I’m sure you are. I hope you are, but it doesn’t change anything.
Karl: Please Susan. We can work it out; I will do anything.
Susan: No. It’s over.
Karl: Life without Susan is pretty bleak.
Joel: You’re pretty cool you know that?
Susan: For a Mum?
Joel: No, just pretty cool.
Libby: I wish I could tell my Mother that no love is ever wasted.
Karl: I’ve never loved anyone but your mother. I never will.
Susan: It’s really silly the things you miss. When we woke up in the morning we used to just lie there and sometimes we’d talk and sometimes we wouldn’t say anything. But always our feet would be all tangled up and this morning I woke and I moved my feet over to find his feet and they weren’t there. It’s silly the things you fixate upon isn’t it. Of all the stupid things to be crying about. This isn’t the way my life would go. I don’t want this.
Susan: I’m not trying to pay you back and I don’t want to hurt you, but I can’t operate on my own with a joint bank account.
Karl: I just don’t want you to slam the door on our marriage.
Susan: You slammed the door on our marriage, not me.
Susan: For god’s sake Karl I can drive your stupid toy.
Karl: It is not a toy it is a classic motor.
Susan: It’s a mid life crisis and you know it.
Karl: Where are you going?
Susan: To flag down a car – preferably one with a roof.
Karl: I’ve got one word for you Susan – directions.
Susan: I have many words for Karl; the only one that doesn’t contain four letters is car. Stupid, male ego car.
Karl: Susan I love you, I love you so much and I don't think I can live without you.
Libby: Everyone has just conveniently forgotten what he did to us and how he humiliated us.
Susan: Your father and I share over two decades of history, of life. We share three beautiful children. Do you know I can barely remember what my life was like before him? That’s hard to throw away.
Karl: I just feel so sad for what we’ve lost.
Susan: Me too.
Karl: All these years I thought you liked Johnny Silver.
Susan: I like him I just…….I don’t love him.
Karl: My god. We’ve been living a lie.
Susan: I don’t mind ending up married to a saint
Karl: You know, I think this is the time we should think about buying that boat we’ve always talked about
Susan: We’ve never talked about buying a boat
Karl: You see how unprepared we are!
1999
Karl: Is there ever going to be a time when you trust me again?
Susan: I want to. I’m sorry Karl; I do believe what you’re telling me.
Karl: But you just jumped to the conclusion that I was cheating on you.
Susan: Yeah I did.
Karl: I don’t know how many times I can say I’m sorry before it sinks in.
Susan: Neither do I.
Karl: I feel a bit of a hypocrite advising Libby on her love life. She doesn’t want my advice anyway she’s made it clear.
Susan: I’m not asking you to talk to her. I’m asking you to talk to me.
Karl: Would it do any good? It’s Libby’s decision.
Susan: I think I need to talk about it even if it brings back painful memories for us.
Karl: And does it?
Susan: Yeah. What about you?
Karl: What do you think?
Susan: We can’t change the past. We can just leave it back there where it belongs.
Bill: Aren’t you two a little old to be playing no speakies?
Peter (to Karl): We obviously have very similar tastes.
Susan: I can’t tell you how relieved I’ll be when she’s gone. It’s not that I hate or wish her ill or anything like that. I just hope this wedding lays a few ghosts to rest.
On Sarah:
Ruth: She’s a nice girl but it’s time she got a life.
Susan: And preferably far away from Erinsborough.
Ruth: I hope that Sarah is very happy and I hope she makes a very happy home for herself in Amsterdam!
Martin: Did Karl ever know about us?
Susan: You shouldn’t bring that up.
Martin: I was just wondering.
Susan: No he didn’t….he doesn’t. He knew that you and I went out together for a while but he assumes that you and he had a closer friendship than you and I.
Martin: And you never told him?
Susan: No of course not, it wasn’t important, it was relevant.
Martin: I thought we were serious.
Susan: You weren’t! Which is why I went from you to Karl - he was always serious.
Libby: Face it Mum you’re a babe!
Susan: Martin just told me he still loves me, how’s that for honesty? The truth is it excited me.
Karl: I got within a word or two of destroying everything but Susan wouldn’t let me. She’s an exceptional woman you know.
Susan: Martin loved everybody. Karl just wanted me. We got to know each other we developed a friendship. Not that I wasn’t attracted to him.
Martin: You left me without an answer all those years ago.
Susan: No I didn’t. Martin you’ve reinvented the past – you never asked the question.
Karl: I never thought it could come to this.
Susan: It came to this a long way back. We should have gone to a councillor a year ago.
Karl: I don’t know what you think anymore.
Karl: Being apart from Susan was the worse thing that happened in my life and I don’t want it to happen again.
Karl: You’re the centre of my world. If I didn’t have you I don’t know what the point would be.
Karl: You become more beautiful every day and I grow bald.
Susan: And blind.
2002
Karl: Susan it is going to be alright. We’re here to help you.
Susan: I know but who are you? I don’t know any of you. I have to keep listing your names; Malcolm, Billy, Libby, Karl over and over in my head so I remember but I don’t know you. I don’t feel anything for you. I’m so sorry I know this is awful for you but I can’t help it and I don’t think you can help me.
Karl: I could hand dry your hair for you. I have done it before.
Susan: I can’t remember that can I.
Carmel: She had a very rebellious streak, very headstrong.
Karl: Well that much hasn’t changed has it.
Karl: My own wife is scared of me.
Darcy: You’re going to get through this.
Karl: I just want her back. I want my wife back.
Susan: Can you stop saying that I’m your wife. You know I don’t remember you.
Karl: She feels safe with him. You must have seen the way she looked at him. You know I remember that look because that’s the way she used to look at me.
Drew: The Susan I know wouldn’t just give up. The Susan I know would keep trying to remember, and most of all she’d recognise how me we love and care for her. She wouldn’t just turn her back on us – she wouldn’t just run away.
Susan: Karl says he loves me.
Libby: He does and you loved him.
Susan: I just can’t imagine it. I’m sorry; I know you hate me saying that. But I feel like I don’t even know him let alone I once loved him.
Karl: She’s my wife. I love her – there’s strength in that.
Drew: The real Susan’s in there somewhere Karl.
Karl: I’ve just got to find her and bring her back.
Karl: I want a real relationship with Susan, not one built on lies. I really believe that if the relationships strong enough then it can withstand just about anything.
Susan: My problem is that I’m being manipulated. I want you and everyone else to stop censoring my life.
Karl: I can’t just forget about the last 30 years, I can’t just wipe it out like that.
Toadie: You and Karl; you’re like my parents so I don’t think I could get involved.
Karl: Susan you are my life. I care for you. I care about us. We had a wonderful marriage and I want that back. I love you. We loved each other so much.
Lyn: I’m sorry this is going to sound awful. I miss you. I miss the relationship we used to have. Our talks. The new Susan is wonderful but it’s different you know. Sometimes I wish it wasn’t.
Karl: It’s a simple twist of fate. I just don’t want any of this to be happening. I want my wife back.
Karl: Half of what I have with you is half a life. I don’t want any of it – not if it’s without you.
Susan: So this feeling doesn’t happen with everyone?
Lyn: You and Karl…..over 20 years. I mean it gets to the stage where one of you is saying what the other one’s thinking. I mean that’s what comes of a life together. You become a part of each other. I know you can’t remember but I cant help thinking that all of those emotions – they can’t just disappear.
Susan: I remember loving you.
Karl: And now?
Susan: And now….no I don’t love you now.
Susan: I know that I told you that I don’t love you but I really like you, and I keep liking you and I think about you and it’s with affection.
Karl: I’m not seeing anyone else and I will never either.
Libby: I’ve got all these beautiful memories but no husband and you’ve got a husband but no beautiful memories. Life plays funny games with us.
Karl: Susan I love you. I’m never going to know anyone as beautiful as you.
Susan: Free As A River could never be dated.
Karl: I know we’re going to work this out.
Darcy: Don’t you ever crave excitement Karl?
Karl: No I crave peace and quiet – a simple life.
Karl: How much of our big day do you remember?
Susan: Bits and pieces, parts of it. Not really very much.
Karl: Then I better do this properly. Susan, lets do it again. Let’s get married again.
Susan: The ceremony looked lovely…..but takeaway wedding lunch.
Karl: It was a full banquet.
Susan: Put the guitar away we don’t want it getting sat on and broken and smashed….
Susan: I listened to all the other songs and they’re all awful. Harold he’s a one hit wonder.
Karl: Nina. Hey I could write her a song. She could sing my song.
Susan: Yeah we’ll talk about that.
Karl: We are just going to gate crash a complete strangers wedding ceremony?
Susan: Don’t be stupid we’re going to the reception as well.
Toadie: To Karl Kennedy. The only man I know who has managed to win and woo the girl of his dreams twice.
Susan: Karl, you are my love. I can’t imagine a future without you. I want to live with you, have children with you, to grow old with you. I can’t imagine not being with you and I make this vow in front of everyone here today that I will love you forever.
Karl: Susan, I adore you with a love that knows no bound. You are the sun, I am the moon. You are the words I am the tune.
2003
Susan: I love you and nothing is going to come between us.
Susan: Any problem at all, I want you to know you can share it with me.
Susan: Doesn’t it bother you that you’ve had so much trouble going without a drink for just two weeks and that you would lie about it?
Susan: Karl you were driving a car with me and Libby in it, on your way to pick up your Grandson and you were legally drunk. I’m sorry but I think that’s very serious.
Libby: Haven’t we been through enough?
Karl: I like the idea that people look up to me.
Libby: You’re my rock Dad. I love you because you’re always so solid and in charge of things.
Karl: I never thought I’d hear myself say this. I do have a problem with alcohol.
Karl: If I see a woman with the name Candace Barkham blazed on her chest – I’ll run her down.
Susan: Oohhh death by bicycle – I like that.
Karl: Susan I’m always on your side, through thick and thin.
Susan: It is on my finger now and it is never coming off. I love this ring, insult and all.
Karl: And I love you, behind and all.
Regarding Libby:
Karl: Susan we can’t just let her go.
Susan: To be honest Karl I’m not sure I want her to stay.
Susan: I know it will take a long time for me to forgive her and that’s something I have to live with and it hurts me too.
Susan: I know you’re stuck in the middle here and I’d never, never ask you to take sides. But do you think you could be there for me as well as for Libby. We both need you.
Susan: Is there something about me that invites betrayal?
Karl: People make mistakes.
Susan: Yes and it’s always up to me to forgive them.
Karl: I define a bad person as someone who does bad things.
Susan: Anything Isabelle says I would take with a very large pinch of salt.
Susan: She will slip one day. Her true colours will be revealed. I know I’m right.
Karl: Susan’s not comfortable with you.
Izzy: Which is a dreadful shame but we’re in a kitchen, not a motel room.
Izzy: I suppose Susan has every right to feel insecure with Dr Karl and younger woman if things have happened in the past.
Harold: You know about that?
Izzy: About what?
Susan: I’ve met your type before. You’re not unique. You might get away with this in Surfers Paradise or wherever it is you blew in from. But you don’t fool me for a minute. You might have charmed everyone else around here but I can know a nasty piece of work when I see it. So fair warning Isabelle. Don’t waste your games on me.
Susan: These people have known me for donkey years. They’ve known Isabelle for 5 minutes and yet they believe her over me. Karl one day she will slip up and everyone will see what she is like.
Lou: Susan that girl doesn’t have a mean bone in her body.
Susan: Lou you’re thinking with your trousers.
Susan: I couldn’t cope if it happened again.
Lyn: It’s not going to happen again. Karl would never do it to you.
Susan (Re: Izzy): She’s clearly unstable.
Susan (to Izzy): I don’t know what your motivation is but trying to drive a wedge between husband and wife is beyond spiteful.
Susan: You’re so distant lately like you’re trying to hide something. And when I do see you it’s like you’re not really there.
Susan: I will never doubt you again, ever.
Karl: And I will never give you cause to.
Susan (to Lyn): You know I told you Karl was keeping a secret? The secret isn’t Isabelle Hoyland the secret is alcohol.
Karl (to the counsellor): I love her, I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t but she’s obsessed with my drinking habits.
Karl: I don’t know what’s happened to my life Izzy. I don’t know what’s happened to me.
Karl: All my life I’ve only been with one woman, well practically and I love Susan.
Karl: I would be nothing without you. You’ve stood by me when I’m sure there were times when it would of been much easier just to run.
Karl (to Izzy): There’s a whole world out there I missed out on.
Karl: You’re crowding me.
Susan: We’re two parts of a whole.
Karl: No we’re not. We’re two people, we’re two separate people.
Karl: I do love you you know.
Karl (to Izzy): It’s not that I don’t love her. I do, very much. Lately it’s like I’ve got this niggling inside me.
Susan: Lyn you were right – Karl is an alcoholic.
Susan: You make me the problem then you belittle me for thinking there is a problem. Karl I love you not matter what. I’ll always love you it’s as simple as that it’s unconditional.
Susan: You’re unhappy with me?
Karl: It’s just sometimes I have this sense of emptiness but I do love you Susan. I do.
Susan: If you love someone you’re not supposed to feel empty.
Karl: I know but that’s the way it’s been. I’ll work through it. It will be all right.
Susan: How can you say that?
Karl: Because I want it to be all right I really do.
Susan: When I had the accident and we separated you went to so much trouble to save our marriage, why did you do that? If your feelings can change so much in the space of a year why go to all that trouble. I want an answer I think I deserve that much. After everything that we’ve been through I thought our marriage would survive anything but if you’re prepared to throw it all away over some truly pathetic notion of unhappiness then I want to know why.
Susan: If you don’t think there’s any chance for us then you have to tell me because if it’s over then I have to learn not to love you anymore. So if you’re going just say it, please just say it.
Karl: I’m not going anywhere.
Susan: You’re my heart…….without you….
Gift note: To my dearest Susan, I give you this gift from my heart with all my love and hope for the future. Karl.
Susan: You’re pulling away from me Karl and I don’t know how to reach you.
2004
Lyn (to Izzy): A wedding ring’s very significant isn’t it? Especially when you’ve been married as long as the Kennedy’s have.
Toadie (to Mal): Izzy’s fine but some of the woman they don’t really like her. Your Mum for instance – there’s no love lost there.
Mal (to Izzy): Is breaking up marriages a hobby for you or is this just a one off?
Mal (to Toadie): Mum took him back last time you wouldn’t think he’d be stupid enough to do it again.
Karl: You’re mother and I going through a difficult time at the moment, mainly because of me, because of my problems.
Karl: How do you tell a woman that you’ve been with for 30 years that your life with her no longer satisfies you? How do you tell her that you’re feeling anxious and depressed for no given reason? How do you explain that to someone when you can’t even explain it to yourself?
Karl: I’m not sure that I love your mother the way I used to. I’m not sure I ever will.
Susan: I really missed you while I was away. I missed you so much. I thought with Ben and the kids I’d be too busy but it was just the opposite. I found myself thinking about you all the time and I’d look for you to share little moments. It made me realises how important you are in my life.
Susan: Karl we have three children together and they’ve grown into decent human beings. This marriage is good and I will not see it thrown away.
Susan: What is between the two of you is something much more intimate than just sex. It’s your thoughts, it’s your feelings, it’s your heart.
Susan: I know it makes me pathetic and old-fashioned but I just can’t imagine my life without him.
Susan: This isn’t you Karl. This isn’t the man I’ve lived with for all these years.
Lyn (to Izzy): I have seen you hovering around Karl and quite frankly it’s indecent. Susan and Karl were perfectly happily married before you came along with your game playing. You can keep your false sympathy to yourself and stay away from them will you – you’ve done enough damage.
Susan: You think I want an apology from my husband for showing me affection.
Lyn: What you’re doing to Susan stinks Karl.
Toadie: (to Karl) Whatever your connection to Izzy – I’m staying neutral.
Joe: You’re a moron Karl. I look at you Karl and you’re a clever bloke but you’re acting like a retard.
Joe: Whatever you’re going through means squat compared to the years you had together, the bond you have, the love that’s there if you just look. Don’t make the biggest mistake of your life Karl. Don’t throw away the best thing that ever happened to you.
Karl: Do you think I don’t love Susan, I don’t care for her, I wouldn’t step in front of a bus for her. I’m just not in love with her anymore.
Izzy: Your marriage with Karl is over. What you had is finished.
Lyn: (to Izzy) I should have listened to Susan ages ago when she said you were bad news.
Susan: You have no idea what it’s like to live your life with someone, to raise children with them. To become so much a part of someone that you have no idea where they end and you begin and then it’s gone. And you’re upset because you’ve been snubbed by a neighbour!
Karl: My daughter thinks I’m a disgrace.
David: The man’s in pain he’s bleeding.
Lil: Poor Doctor lying cheating Karl.
A patient wishes to leave Karl’s practice:
Karl: Did she say why?
Lil: Something about not wanting to give her business to local playboy.
Susan: Life’s too short to stay hurt forever.
Karl: I just lashed out and brought myself some equipment for home recording.
Harold: Oh not another ‘Free as a River’ – let me go deaf first.
Toadie: Sounds like you miss her.
Karl: You can’t be married for nearly 30 years and not miss her.
Toadie: What about Susan herself?
Karl: Sometimes. Sometimes I wonder if it’s the biggest mistake I’ve ever made.
Izzy: I feel like I need to tell you we can only ever just be friends.
Susan: It’s embarrassing how easily you have slipped into the midlife crisis cliché.
Karl: Thanks for that. Feel free to drop in anytime to analyse me.
Susan: Act your age Karl.
Susan: I still love him. That’s about all I can say at the moment.
Izzy: I am not your daughter Karl and I am not your girlfriend.
Izzy: If you cant cope with us just being friends….
Karl: Excuse me? You led me to believe I was anything but.
Izzy: Only in your mind.
Karl: That is rubbish in this office, in the pub, in my own home.
Susan: It’s one thing to suspect something and something else to have it confirmed.
Lyn: Karl could come to his senses – see Izzy for what she really is.
Susan: No. Too many lies now, too much pain. There’s just no way I could take Karl back now.
Susan: I was so comfortable with Karl – we fitted. Now I’ve got to try and fit with someone else.
Susan (to Izzy): I once heard waitresses live off their tips – it’s a wonder you haven’t starved to death.
Izzy: Actually, I know what this is about. You blame me for Karl leaving you.
Susan: Oh no, Isabelle. Surprisingly enough our lives don’t revolve entirely around you.
Izzy: You hate me because you know I could have him like that.
Susan: Oh please, snap away. If he comes running, good luck to you. I’m finished with him.
Susan: What part of separated don’t you understand?
Karl: I just thought that after today we could be friends.
Susan: No you didn’t think. You obviously didn’t think or you wouldn’t assume we would go to a concert together after everything that’s happened.
Karl: I miss our friendship.
Susan: What is the point in us being friends. According to Isabelle all she has to do is snap her fingers and I’d lose my ‘friend’ at the drop of a hat.
Karl: You’ve got to forget about Isabelle, her ego’s out of control.
Susan: Well then you’re a good pair, aren’t you.
Karl: No, we’re not any……we’re not any kind of pair. I just thought it would be a fun night out, that’s all.
Susan: You can’t deny you’re chasing after Isabelle, can you? Can you? Can’t have your cake and eat it too, Karl.
Karl: Being single was supposed to be the start of a whole new phase in my life.
Karl: What do they call the crisis after the mid life crisis?
David: Death.
The night before Izzy takes the pregnancy test:
Izzy: Give up this fantasy. We can’t be together. Basically you’re just too old for me.
Libby: What is this about? Your career, your dissatisfaction with life, where you saw yourself ending up. I think you blamed Mum for that wrongly.
Karl: I did think I could run away from my problems.
Libby: But you can’t can you? Not when they’re inside your head.
The night after the Izzy takes the pregnancy test:
Izzy: I think we can make this work. I want to be with you.
Libby: When Drew died I looked at you as Ben’s male role model. I wanted him to grow up to be just like you, but while Mum is behaving with grace and decorum you’re making a fool out of yourself. I’m ashamed of you.
Izzy: That home was a bombsite way before I arrived.
Susan: Didn’t stop you wading in to pick through the wreckage.
Izzy: For your information, Karl and I only got together recently. As far as I’m concerned, he’s a single man.
Susan: In other words, fair game.
Izzy: I’ve done nothing wrong to you! You’ve got no right to treat me like I’m some kind of piranha.
Susan: I think the word you’re searching for is ‘pariah’.
Karl: Trying to have a relationship here in Erinsborough I’d feel like I was rubbing Susan’s face in it. I couldn’t do that to her.
Izzy (to Tom): I found a father for my baby. He’s very dependable and wants to look after me.
Lyn: I hope you not what you’re doing Karl.
Karl: I think I’m old enough.
Lyn: Maybe too old.
Lyn: Whatever happened to that decent bloke I used to know?
Susan: I am not understanding. A couple of years I told you I wanted to have another baby, do you remember? And you said no. You said this was our time, time to do what we wanted, time to spoil ourselves. Well you spoiled my life. You have destroyed my happiness. And I am not understanding. From now on, Karl, expect nothing from me. I hate you. I hate you and what you have done to me and my family. And I will never, ever forgive you.
Karl: Our marriage failed because of me.
Karl: Had a lot of laughs didn’t we? Over the years.
Susan: I don’t regret a minute of it
Susan: Oh Karl how did we become these people? We’re like strangers.
Karl: No we could never be that, we know each other to well to ever be…..to be that.
Karl: I still feel I’m cheating her. 30 years of marriage and she gets half a house.
Libby (to Karl): You’re stopping really low but then I guess you’ve had a good teacher.
Izzy: I think Karl buying you out is for the best. There must be so many memories and this is just a chance for a new start.
Susan: What are you talking about?
Susan: Isabelle will move into my house over my dead body.
Susan: I am not losing my house to Jezabel.
Karl: You can’t spend that long with someone, walk away and not have feelings for them. My life with Susan is part of who I am.
Karl: I know what you’re thinking but I can sure you I’m well beyond a mid-life crisis.
Susan: Finally! How many decades has it been going on?!
Darcy: Karl I was sorry to hear about you and Susan. But it’s nice to see you still love her enough to give me a hard time.
Karl: If your hurt my wife….
Darcy: Which wife would that be Karl, Susan or the one you replaced her with?
Susan: (to Izzy) Actually, you’re dead right. I spend every minute of every day scheming to rob you of a husband. And if everything goes according to plan, Karl and I will be together again very soon. In fact, we might even remarry on our 30th wedding anniversary. So stay on your toes.
Tom: You used me to escape Karl, or from the pain of breaking up. That’s a fact and you’re still not over him.
Susan: Sounds like congratulations are in order.
Izzy: Yes thank you. It’s exciting for both of us.
Susan: Well you deserve each other. I’m sure you’ll be very happy together.
Izzy: I’m sure we will.
Susan: It’s just a pity you have to wait for our divorce to come through isn’t it?
Karl: Thanks to you he blows in, takes us all for a ride and traumatizes my fiancé.
Susan: Your fiancé. Karl it’s very interesting that you can even have a fiancé considering you still have a wife.
Susan: Karl, it’s Susan. For the last time stop leaving messages on my phone, my lawyer informs me it’s harassment. Anything you have to say can wait until court. Do I make myself clear? Oh, and I know about you trying to sell the surgery’s equipment Karl, that is stooping low. You are pathetic.
KARL: That’s it then.
Susan: Nearly 30 years…Gone.
KARL: They were good years weren’t they?
Susan: Yeah. They were.
KARL: Three gorgeous kids.
Susan: A wonderful grandchild.
KARL: That’s more than most people can ask for.
Susan: It’s a lot more. I have, so many beautiful memories.
KARL: Please don’t cry.
Susan: Sorry.
KARL: I never thought this would happen to us.
Susan: Neither did I.
KARL: Not to us.
Susan: No.
Karl: (to Susan) If I needed an ear yours would be the one I’d run to.
Susan: You always used to be strong when you had to.
Karl: Yeah….maybe I was a better man then…..maybe it was because I had you. We supported each other; I didn’t have to do it on my own.
Karl: Thank you.
Susan: I’m just being a friend.
Karl: You’re more than that.
Susan: You have been my rock this last year. I don’t know how I would have got through it without you.
Libby: You would have survived. You are such a strong woman, you’ve taught me everything I know. And I probably don’t say it often enough, but I love you. You’re the best mum a girl could ever have.
Izzy: I muscled my way in there when things were shaky for the two of you, I didn’t stop to look at any damn boundaries did I?
Susan: Well we have different values.
Lyn: Maybe you’ll get a bulk discount since your last wedding was there too.
Karl: I doubt they’re available, Lyn.
Lyn: Yeah, well, for Susan’s sake I hope they’re not.
Susan: There’s a part of me that will always love him but it’s very different from before.
Susan: You’re leaving, aren’t you? You led him all the way to the altar and you just leave him there waiting? How could you do that?
Izzy: No it wasn’t like that, I was thinking of Karl.
Susan: You’ve never thought of anyone in your life except yourself. He sacrificed everything for you and you do this?
Susan: You know what, you’re right, Isabelle. Do him a favour of a lifetime, just keep on driving and don’t ever, ever come back.
