Ashley quotes from 7th Heaven

Lucy

I've got some good news and bad news.

I'm Ashley. I don't get bad news.

[with Lucy is hiding under the bed listening] So I've been dying to ask you...what do you think of Lucy?

I think she's pretty nice.

Pretty nice? Please! She's absolutely rude to Ashley.

It probably just gets to her that Ashley and Jimmy are boyfriend/girlfriend. I mean, he and Lucy had been going out for a long time.

Yeah, I always wondered why he broke up with her anyway.

Well, for one thing, Jimmy says she's incredibly insecure.

So she's a little insecure...okay, she doesn't have a lot of self-confidence.

No kidding!

You're exactly right.

Yeah, but who would with an older sister who's a basketball star and a brain?

Yeah, I mean, if Mary hadn't made us invite Lucy over tonight, believe me...

You wouldn't understand. You have a mother. A real mother. Sometimes, I wish I had a real mother, too, not someone who would rather be my friend than my mother. Friends, I have. People to go to parties and dances with, I have. A mother, I don't have and haven't had since my parents got divorced. That's when my mother decided that she didn't want to be a mother anymore.

Lucy

I had no idea you felt this way. I thought you liked having a mother who was hip and cool and un-motherlike.

What's so hip and cool about being locked in some stranger's bathroom while your mother flirts and carries on with some guy who's too old for us and too young for her? Welcome to the dark side of having a hip and cool mom.

Mom, can you grow up and act your age for just once?

You cannot talk to me like that. I am your mother!

My mother? I thought I was your best friend. Which one is it? Mother or best friend?

Can't I be both?

No! Because I want a mother who tells me what to do. A mother who tells me to do my homework, to go to bed. I want a mother with her own life, her own friends. I don't want a mother who makes a fool of herself, flirting around with some guy who's half her age! I know it isn't all about me, but why does it have to be all about you?