- Margaret Scully: You never loved one of them?
- Barton Scully: ...James Davenport. He was the only one that... That was so very long ago. Summer before I went to college.
- Margaret Scully: You loved a boy when you were eighteen? You knew you felt this way when you were eighteen?
- Barton Scully: It wasn't so clear-cut then.
- Margaret Scully: But, you hadn't even met me yet and you already knew you could never want me.
- Margaret Scully: I was ten when you were eighteen. Everything was ahead. You cannot give me back the years I could've done something else. I could've been with someone else. Why wasn't that my choice?
- Margaret Scully: If you don't fix it... I don't know what kind of future we can possibly have. But, I mean, listening to that doctor, I thought... you know, for all of our problems, this is still thirty years of a life. Not the life I thought I had, but the life I got... with a man... that I do love.