Notes on Desperate Housewives

1. Just as there will always be those who prefer to sit in the dark, brooding over everything they've lost.
2. Those who take it promise to stay together, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, to honor and to cherish, forsaking all others, until death do us part.
3. Beautiful lawns, spacious homes, happy families. These are the hallmarks of suburbia. But if you look beneath the veneer of gracious living, you will see a battle raging, a battle for control. You see the combatants everywhere, engaged in their routine skirmishes, fighting fiercely to have dominion over the world around them, all the while knowing, it's a battle they will lose. Control. It's extraordinary the tactics people employ to obtain it. Some rely on deception. While others engage in outright trickery. Then there are those who resort to extortion.
4. "Honey, he is gonna get over this in no time. Trust me. And one day, when he is all grown up, you and Parker are gonna laugh hysterically about this."
5. People, by their very nature, are always on the lookout for intruders, trying to prevent those on the outside from getting in.
6. I made breakfast for my family. I performed my chores. I completed my projects. I ran my errands. In truth, I spent the day as I spend every other day quietly polishing the routine of my life until it gleamed with perfection.
7. No matter what happens, I will always love you to the moon and back.
8. Mrs. Huber stood motionless in her kitchen, grief-stricken by this senseless tragedy.
9. Sometimes people pretend to be one way on the outside, when they're totally different on the inside.
10. She was known for her power lunches, her eye-catching presentations, and her ruthlessness in wiping out the competition. ruthlessness 英['ru:θlisnis] 美['ru:θlisnis] n. 无情；残忍 wiping out 1.（尤指做滑雪或冲浪等体育运动时）跌倒，翻跌下来 2. wipe sb out 使疲惫不堪 3. wipe sb/sth out 彻底消灭；全部摧毁
11. mow down: 割倒；摧毁；残杀 eg. We mow down the long grass regularly. 我们俩沿着长满草的路边开始一起散步。 We shall have to mow down the tall grass in the big field. 我们得把大田里的高草割掉。
12. I was laid to rest on a Monday.
13. Of course, she didn't cook much while she was moving up the corporate ladders.
14. Kids do better with stay-at-home moms. It would be so much less stressful.
15. In fact, Lynette's life had become so hectic she was now forced to get her fried chicken from a fast-food restaurant.
16. Lynette would have appreciated the irony if she stopped to think about it, but she couldn't. She didn't have the times.
17. Gabrielle Solis, who lives down the block, brought a spicy paella.
18. Gabrielle liked her paella piping hot. However, her relationship with her husband was considerably cooler.
19. Bree Van De Kamp, who lives next door, brought baskets of muffins she baked from scratch. Bree was known for her cooking, and for making her own clothes, and for doing her own gardening, and for reupholstering her own furniture.
20. I only saw her clothes from Paris, and her platinum jewelry, and her brand-new diamond watch. Had I looked closer, I'd have seen that Gabrielle was a drowning woman, desperately in search of a life raft.
21. Of course, Gabrielle only saw her young gardener as a way to infuse her life with a little excitement.
22. Like my friend Bree Van De Kamp, I remember the easy confidence of her smile, the gentle elegance of her hands, the refined warmth of her voice. But what I remember most about Bree was the look of fear in her eyes. Bree had started to realize her world was unraveling, and for a woman who despised loose ends, that was unacceptable.
23. Her misfortunes ranged from the common place... To the unusual... To the truly bizarre. As she waved goodbye, she worried that Susan's streak of bad luck would continue. For that matter, so did her cat.
24. Suburbia is a battleground, an arena for all forms of domestic combat. Husbands clash with wives, parents cross swords with children, but the bloodiest battles often involve women and their mothers-in-law. The war for control of Carlos began the night he proposed, and Gabrielle had been losing ground to Juanita ever since. From the prenuptial agreement which she reluctantly signed, to the selection of wedding music she despised, to the color of the house paint she hadn't wanted ... Gabrielle had suffered one defeat after another. And now that Juanita suspected her daughter-in-law of having an affair, it had became increasingly apparent that in this war ... no prisoners would be taken.
25. Everyone knew Bree had the nicest lawn in the neighborhood. And no one begrudged her this. No one, that is, except Martha Huber, whose own lawn paled in comparison.
26. She knew the transgressions of her past were nothing compared with the sin she was about to commit.
27. There are others, who soothe their consciences with small acts of kindness. Or by telling themselves their sins were justified.
28. Before she knew it, she had jumped off the runway and moved to the suburbs. Her most recent great idea was born out of her boredom with her new life.
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