- Mary Camden: [to Eric as he feeds the twins] Where's Mom?
- Rev. Eric Camden: I am perfectly capable of feeding my own sons. I do it all the time! I have fed my children for over 21 years now. True, for many of them, your mom cooked most of those meals while I was out earning the money to pay for those meals, but from time to time, I have fed one of my offspring, or all of my offspring, just as I am doing now, without the aid of Mom!
- Mary Camden: I'm just looking for Mom because she asked me to pick up some soap for her.
- Rev. Eric Camden: Oh. She's upstairs.
- Annie Camden: [to Ruthie after she saw Annie and Eric having sex] Ruthie, it really isn't funny.
- Ruthie Camden: Oh, it's plenty funny! I always thought it was so serious, because you always have this serious face when you talk about sex, but trust me, it was funny!
- Annie Camden: It's also very... private, and very intimate, and even though it's perfectly natural for a man and a woman - a married man and a married: woman - to... make love, it's not something that's meant for anyone else to watch.
- Ruthie Camden: I didn't mean to, and believe me, I'm going to do everything I can to make sure I never see anything like that again!
- Mary Camden: Dad, please. They really are my friends, Frankie is my friend! She asked me to bring over those college brochures tonight so we could look over them, and make a plan to go back to school.
- Rev. Eric Camden: And did you?
- Mary Camden: No.
- Rev. Eric Camden: Because she was too stoned? Mary... who are you and what are you doing with these people?
- Mary Camden: [to Eric] If you're not going to help them, I'll help them.
- Rev. Eric Camden: How? You don't have a job, you don't have any money. You have to help yourself before you can help anyone else!
- Frankie: It just seems so unfair. You make one little mistake, you know?
- Mary Camden: Yeah, I know. I made a big mistake once, too. I got arrested last year for trashing the school gym.
- Frankie: [laughs] Arrested? You?
- Mary Camden: Yeah. I'm still on probation.
- Frankie: Oh, so that's why you don't drink or smoke or anything.
- Mary Camden: Yeah, kind of... but also because I feel so out of control, anyway - like I couldn't get my life back on track even if I wanted to. Not that I want to - I mean, it's not so bad, but it's just...
- Frankie: Existing. Just existing. I know what you mean. Every time I make an effort to do something, it just feels like there's so much resistance... and I give up before I even start trying.
- Mary Camden: Maybe we could help each other. Maybe we could make an effort together. Maybe we could go to college and see if anything changes. I brought the brochures, do you want to look at them?
- Frankie: No, not right now, I'm too out of it. Maybe some other time.
- Mary Camden: [disappointed] Yeah. Maybe some other time.
- [stands up]
- Frankie: No, don't say it like that. Don't give up on me. I need a friend.
- Mary Camden: Well, I need a friend too.
- Frankie: [on the phone with Mary] Hey, what if you and I both decided to sign up for college together next semester?
- Johnny: [smirking in the background] Be sure to apply for that scholarship!
- Mary Camden: Are you serious?
- Frankie: Sure, I'm serious. I don't know what I want to do, either, but I know I don't want to wait tables for the rest of my life.
- Lucy Camden: [to Ruthie] I want to read what's in that diary.
- Ruthie Camden: And I want to win a million bucks. Not gonna happen.
- Frankie: [to Johnny] Why do you always have to act like this when somebody comes over?
- Johnny: I don't act like this whenever someone comes over, I act like this all the time.
- Frankie: Right. You do act like this all the time. So when are you going to grow up?
- Johnny: Get off my case, will you?
- Frankie: You could at least help me out a little around here. It's not like I ask you to do that much.
- Johnny: You don't ask me to do that much? You asked me to marry you, didn't you?
- Matt Camden: [to Annie] So Ruthie caught you and Dad... um, you know?
- Annie Camden: Yes. Okay? Yes!
- Matt Camden: I should have seen that one coming.
- Annie Camden: No, you shouldn't have, it's never happened before!
- Matt Camden: Yes, it has. Um... we've all seen you. I've seen you, Mary's seen you, Lucy's seen you, even Simon has seen you. Did you do that thing where you said you were gonna check on one of the kids and then Dad said he's gonna go check on you? That usually signals the red flag and we all steer clear, but Ruthie just didn't know the signal!
- Annie Camden: Well, how did the rest of you know the signal?
- Matt Camden: It's kind of an obvious signal.
- Annie Camden: No it isn't!
- Matt Camden: Yes it is.
- Annie Camden: Go to bed.
- Matt Camden: I don't live here.
- Annie Camden: Go to bed, anyway.
- Simon Camden: [teasingly] You know, you're never too old or too smart to do what your mother says.
- Mary Camden: [to Frankie] Is that... Is that pot?
- Frankie: Yeah. I just need it to loosen up. This whole mother and wife gig really sucks.
- Frankie: [about Johnny] He's not such a bad guy, you know. He wanted to go to college, too, major in English Lit, and be a writer.
- Mary Camden: Hey, we all still have plenty of time to be whatever it is we want to be, right?
- Frankie: Right.
- [baby starts crying from her crib]
- Frankie: Whatever I'm going to be doesn't change who I already am: a mom.
- Mary Camden: [about Frankie and Johnny] They are good people. They're both working, and they're trying to raise this kid, and it's really hard.
- Rev. Eric Camden: So hard that they have to smoke pot.