Stephanie Powell quotes from No Ordinary Family

Stephanie Powell

Boundaries, Jim. Ignore the Bat-phone. Tonight's for us

Stephanie

Don't do this. Whatever you feel for Sophie, it's not real. You and me-we're real. Eighteen years of candlelit dinners... backyard football games, a-arguing over shelving units... seeing your daughter born... and JJ's first stitches... remember? I was so scared and you held my hand and you said everything was going to be okay, and I believed you. It's-it's like you said. We fit. This is real.

Stephanie

The problem isn't about the powers. The problem is about Jim, husband and father of two, is out there using his powers to face hardened criminals, which is in my estimation...

Katie

...so frickin' cool! He's out there on the street and he's kickin' ass...like Batman.

Stephanie

Too bad you already took your shower. I was going to ask you to join me.

Jim

Well, I might not be as fast as you are, but there are some things I'll still make time for.

Stephanie

Jim, I love this ring.

Jim

When I bought it for you, I was an artist barely getting by. The only ring I could afford was the smallest, ugliest ring in the store.

Stephanie

It's not ugly.

Jim

When I got down on my knee and I proposed, you looked at it and you said, "That's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen." And I knew--I knew right then I had the right girl. And every time I see it on your finger, I know you love me for who I am. And I love you for the beauty you see in ordinary things.

Katie

I don't get it. You used to complain that Jim didn't have anything in his life. Now that he finally has a thing, you're going to complain about that?

Stephanie

I was hoping it'd be a hobby, like model airplanes or stamp collecting.

Katie

Oh, trust me, you do not want to be with a stamp collector. Their fingers are sticky, and their tongues are always dry.

Stephanie

I saw something tonight. A huge chasm. Two sides so far apart. Families--I mean, we start as a unit together, united. And over time, life happens, people change, and pretty soon, you're so far apart you can't even see the person you're sitting next to at dinner. That's what happened to me and my parents. That table might as well have been the Grand Canyon. But they don't really know who we are. But... part of that's because we haven't let them. There are a lot of things I can run away from, Jim, but I can't... run away from who we are.

Jim

So what do we do?

Stephanie

Maybe it's time to stop running.

Stephanie Powell

Well, uh, on a completely unrelated note, J.J. needs...

Katie Andrews

To tutor him. I knew it was just a matter of time before you realized he needed some more intellect simulation.

Stephanie Powell

And you don't mind?

Katie Andrews

I was gonna suggest it. I mean, this might be my only chance to tutor a-a burgeoning Lex Luthor or oh, even, say, a young Reed Richards. Okay, work might not be the only reason I'm single.

Stephanie

No, don't worry. Once I identify his vulnerable DNA strand, I will isolate a molecular pathogen that will trigger Patton's cellular senescence, rendering his powers inert forever.

Jim

Duh.

George

Damn. Eighteen years well spent.

Stephanie Powell

I thought we were a team.

Katie Andrews

Of course you do - team Stephanie! But even though there's no "I" in team, there's a big "I" in Stephanie. And there's a "PH," which we both know in chemistry, is a measure of acidity.

Katie

Okay, so have you ever had somebody look at you, and it's like they are looking directly into your pre-frontal cortex?

Katie

That's a valid diagnosis. I do have all the classic symptoms--anxiety, uneasiness, dread.

Stephanie

Well, that's not how you're supposed to feel when you're in love.

Katie

Well in my case, it is. Because love leads to commitment. And commitment leads to intimacy. And intimacy... has.. proven to be somewhat uncharted territory.

Stephanie

Katie, are you saying that you're still a...?

Katie

Yes. Okay, so back in high school, I decided that I was gonna wait for "The One," like Morpheus for Neo in The Matrix, but with sexual relations.