“You can scrub and scrub, but sometimes something doesn't just go away. It . . . it stains you.”
“Some things just won’t go away, no matter how hard you scrub.”
“Nothing takes the romance and grandeur out of life than scrubbing stains out of sheets.”
“Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.”
“Just so you know, Alice’s nurse’s uniform is a pair of green scrubs. She looks like Gumby.”
“I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do, there will always be some other stain or spot on your face or stupid act, somebody frowning.”