How we cite our quotes: All quotes are from The Sixth Sense.
Quote #7
MALCOLM: I want to be able to talk to my wife again. The way we used to talk to each other. Like there was no one else in the world except us.
COLE: How are you going do that?
MALCOLM: I can't be your doctor anymore. I haven't paid enough attention to my family. Bad things happen when you do that. Do you understand?
When Malcolm realizes that his wife is getting close to another man (Sean), he decides he needs to stop focusing on work so much and get busy fixing his relationship. Um, you're going to need a lot more than a career change, my friend.
Quote #8
COLE: I got an idea how you can talk to your wife. Wait till she's asleep. Then she'll listen to you and she won't even know it.
Cole and Malcolm do continue working together, and they're ultimately both able to help each other out with their individual problems. Since Cole knows that Malcolm is dead, and Malcolm doesn't, he has some special insight into the topic. He's taken Malcolm's advice and thrown it right back at him.
Quote #9
COLE: Grandma comes to visit me sometimes.
LYNN: Cole, that's very wrong. Grandma's gone, you know that.
COLE: I know. She wanted me to tell you...
LYNN: Cole, please stop.
COLE: She wanted me to tell you she saw you dance. She said when you were little, you and her had a fight, right before your dance recital. You thought she didn't come to see you dance. She did. She hid in the back so you wouldn't see. She said you were like an angel. She said you came to the place where they buried her, asked her a question. She said the answer is "Every day." What did you ask?
LYNN: Do I make her proud?
Now we're back in some ancient family drama. Apparently, a fight and missed dance recital caused some serious angst with her mama that Lynn still painfully remembers to this day. By being able to relay some information from said ghostly mama, however, Cole's helping to heal some of those old family wounds. Lynn cries with relief to hear that her mother was proud of her. She was just as scared of her mother's disapproval as Cole is of hers.