General Hospital (1963– )

Alicia Leigh Willis: Courtney Matthews, Courtney Matthews Morgan, Courtney Matthews Jacks, Courtney Matthew Morgan, Violet

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• Courtney Matthews : There's nothing cool about being a criminal, Diego.

  Diego : No - There's nothing cool about being a busboy. Your ex is my only way out of this dead-end life.

  Courtney Matthews : Well, I'm not going to let it happen.

  Diego : You can't stop me.

• Diego : I don't believe this. Jason's supposed to be this big, bad mob enforcer and he lets Alcazar step all over him. He didn't do anything!

  Courtney Matthews : Really? Why are you disappointed, Diego? Huh? Why? Did you want to see a fight? Did you want to see a shooting? Let me tell you, I've been in more than a few and they are terrifying.

  Diego : Yeah, well, I guess Jason thinks so, too. He's such a coward! He's a joke is what he is.

  Courtney Matthews : OK, no, now, listen - I may not agree with a lot of the choices Jason makes, but he is not a coward.

• Courtney Matthews : Have you ever almost drowned, Sonny? I mean, you've been in water so cold that - that your arms are so - are so heavy you can't even lift them and it hurts to take a breath? I mean, when your body, it just - it goes numb. You know, and you - and you start choking on salt water, and you - you realize that - that you were wrong, that - that you're not going to make it, that you're not strong enough. And then, you know all the - all the life inside you, it just starts slipping away. And you think "I just - I should've waited. I should've trusted that the person that I love was going to come and save me instead of gambling with that life and losing. " That's what is haunting me.

• Courtney : I don't know how this got out of control so fast.

  Faith Rosco : Because you attacked me. I want her arrested.

  Courtney : Me?

  Brian : Courtney did nothing wrong.

  Faith Rosco : She hit me.

  Brian : You provoked her.

  Faith Rosco : You were here you saw what happened I offered the little snit a job and she comes after me like a bunny out of hell. That's assault and if you don't take her in I'm going straight to ADA Lancing and I will have your badge.

• Courtney Matthews : I'm taking my nephew home.

  Ric Lansing : No, no, no. I can't let you do that.

  Courtney Matthews : Why not?

  Ric Lansing : Well, legally, I can't release Michael in anybody's custody except his parents.

  Courtney Matthews : Sonny's out of town and Carly's unavailable. She asked me to take care of her children, OK?

  Ric Lansing : Did she sign a paper to that effect?

  Courtney Matthews : I'm his aunt, and I'm taking him home.

  Ric Lansing : Well, I'm his uncle. Why shouldn't I take him home?

  Courtney Matthews : Do you want me to call a lawyer?

  Ric Lansing : You can call whoever you want to, Courtney. But, legally, I have to turn him over to social services, if his parents can't be bothered to come down and pick him up.

  Courtney Matthews : OK, you listen to me, you evil freak. I'm going to walk in that room and I'm going to speak to my nephew and if you try to stop me, I'm going to throw you across the room.

  Ric Lansing : I have no doubt about that.

• Courtney Matthews : I shot Brian in the back, Carly, and walked away. I didn't even check on him. What if he's dead?

  Carly Corinthos : OK, you saved your husband's life tonight.

  Courtney Matthews : OK, so that's how it works - kill or be killed? I just did the very thing that scares me the most about Jason.

  Carly Corinthos : Didn't you shoot Coleman once?

  Courtney Matthews : God, are you kidding me? that was self-defense. This was completely different. I wasn't corned, I wasn't being stalked. I didn't think, I just pulled the trigger.

  Carly Corinthos : OK. OK. You listen to me. I shot Tony Jones once in open court trying to protect Michael. I went to the head of the five familles at a meeting with a baseball bat trying to take care of Sonny. We've all done dangerous things at times.

  Courtney Matthews : Carly, Brian is a good person, and I shot him for doing his job. Jason's right, you know? Once your in this life you can't ever walk away.

• Courtney Matthews : Your job - it ends up hurting everybody in the end, including the people that you'd die for. Oh, God. Jason, Michael is - he is the most wonderful kid in the world. He is so warm and loving, and he trusts. Pretty soon, Michael is going to shut down, and he won't even be able to let someone teach him how to play catch, because the only people he's allowed to trust are you and Sonny.

  Jason Morgan : And you. He can trust you.

  Courtney Matthews : Oh, really? Well, for how long? You know, I don't agree with the way that Sonny's acting, so pretty soon he is going to turn against me, too. He's already thrown Carly out of her own kids' lives. You're the only person that those kids are going to have left. Michael and Morgan are the real victims here, Jason.

• Carly Corinthos : How's Sonny?

  Courtney Matthews : Well, he tore some ligaments in his knee. He's in pain, but he's holding up OK.

  Carly Corinthos : Do you know what number he got? I'm - I'm 23, and I was hoping that he could fly out sooner so he could be with the boys no matter what happens.

  Lorenzo Alcazar : You're not going to die tonight, Carly. I can promise you that.

  Courtney Matthews : Yeah, you know what? For once I agree with him. Listen, we're all going to get evacuated safely. Just try and think positive, OK?

  Carly Corinthos : What number did you get?

  Courtney Matthews : I got 31. So, it looks like I'm going to be in one of the last groups to go.

• Courtney Matthews : Justus! Justus, maybe I got my numbers confused, but I thought Sonny was supposed to be on that flight. Something happened. What?

  Justice Ward : Part of the floor where Sonny was standing fell thought. He fell in.

  Mike Corbin : Well, somebody went after him, right? They're - they're going to get my son out.

  Justice Ward : Lorenzo Alcazar insisted on searching for them.

  Courtney Matthews : Them?

  Justice Ward : Carly and Sonny were together. I'm sorry. I don't see how they could've survived.

• Courtney Matthews : Isn't this a sweet little picture - the sick freak reunited with his clueless wife and unborn child.

  Ric Lansing : I guess you heard about Sonny and Carly?

  Courtney Matthews : Yeah, Sonny and Carly are dead, Jason's trapped, and here you are, Ric - Good old Ric. Who tormented all of, you son of a bitch. It shouldn've been you! I hate you!

• Elizabeth Webber Lansing : Ric isn't to blame for any of this!

  Courtney Matthews : Yeah, he never is!

  Ric Lansing : Look, Sonny was my brother, too!

  Courtney Matthews : Oh, and you did so much for him, Ric. You drugged his wife, you made Carly think that you rapped her and you then you kidnapped her and tried to steal her unborn child! You're sick!

  Elizabeth Webber Lansing : Look, Courtney, I understand you're upset, but, Ric had nothing to do with what just happened to your brother and Carly, OK?

  Ric Lansing : Courtney, I would have gone after them if...

  Courtney Matthews : Oh, but you couldn't, because it was more important to get your psychotic self on that helicopter than to save the brother you wanted dead in the first place!

  Ric Lansing : Look - look I understand that you hate me! I under stand that! You have every reason to! But, don't you dare to presume to understand how I feel about our brother!

  Courtney Matthews : Oh, let me guess, Ric! you really loved him deep down inside. I don't buy it! Elizabeth might! But, I never will!

• Courtney Matthews Morgan : Hey, Brian, it's OK. It's over now.

  Brian Beck : I did love you, Courtney.

  Courtney Matthews Morgan : You're going to be all right.

  Brian Beck : I know. Karen and Henry are waiting for me.

  Courtney Matthews Morgan : Nurse, we need some help in here!

  Brian Beck : Be happy, Courtney.

• Carly Corinthos : Sonny and I are parents together, and that's as far as it goes. Anything else is over.

  Courtney Matthews Morgan : Why?

  Carly Corinthos : Let's pull one thing out of the hat - Sam.

  Courtney Matthews Morgan : Oh, come on, Carly, you don't honestly believe that he loves her?

  Carly Corinthos : It's got nothing to do with love, Courtney. It's about keeping score. You know how it works. You disagree with Sonny, five points off. You cross him, ten points off. You do something that he thinks is betrayal, ok, you're out of the game. And right now, Sam's playing the game perfectly, ok? So let her enjoy it. She's keeping her mouth shut. She's doing what she's told. Let her have the fun while it lasts. I'm out of it. I am standing on my own two feet.

• Tracy Quartermaine : You tell Jax he's not for you - which wouldn't be lie. Because he's not, he's mine. You put an end to this silly little crush he thinks he has on you, and I would be willing to overlook the infraction.

  Courtney Matthews Morgan : You're serious.

  Tracy Quartermaine : As a heart attack.

  Courtney Matthews Morgan : You would really prevent underprivileged children from getting the help they need just to satisfy your aging ego?

  Tracy Quartermaine : Look, Sweets, you're playing way out of your league, with me and with Jax. He needs a woman of substance, not a piece of trash who used to ride a pole in a strip club for dollar tips.

• Courtney Matthews Morgan : Jax is just the tip of the iceberg as far as me and Sonny. We - we have some major issues.

  Lois Cerullo-Ashton : Well, your brother, Sonny, he can be a little difficult.

  Courtney Matthews Morgan : Try impossible. Look, he - he wants to run my life and shut me out at the same time. Sonny - I mean, he's arrogant, he's obsessed with power, and you know what, he gets so incredibly angry sometimes you can't even be around him.

  Lois Cerullo-Ashton : Yeah, but he's also decent and generous and superloyal. And he is totally respectful of women, except for the ones he happens to be sleeping with - yeah, they get destroyed. Which is perfect justice that he wound up with Carly, that raving bitch from hell.

  Courtney Matthews Morgan : That would be Carly, my best friend.

  Lois Cerullo-Ashton : Oh. Give me a second to pry my foot out of my mouth, and you can tell me all about it.

• Jason Morgan : This thing with Jax is getting serious. Isn't it?

  Courtney Matthews : Yes, and it scares me to death.

  Jason Morgan : Why would that scare you?

  Courtney Matthews : Because I never thought that I would love anyone after loving you.