Bailey Salinger quotes from Party of Five

Sarah

Must be the nutmeg.

Will

I love nutmeg.

Sarah

Or maybe it's the vanilla.

Will

I love vanilla.

Bailey

I'm thinking it's the rum.

Sarah

I didn't put any rum in this.

Bailey

No, but those guys did.

Will

Love those guys.

Annie

You're the oldest twenty-year old I know.

Bailey

Actually, I'm nineteen.

Bailey

He's eating popcorn for breakfast?

Julia

Hey, it's white!

Bailey

How am I supposed to run this place without waiters?

John Dory's a fish.

Bailey

Well, how am I supposed to run this place without fish?

If you want to stay enrolled at this college, you have to get this paper done and you have to get it done right away, or...

Bailey

Actually, what I have to do? I have to go to the hospital right now because my brother's there with pneumonia. And then I have to cover for him at his work. Then I have to go to a parent conference at my little brother's daycare, 'cause he doesn't have any parents. And then after that I have to go to my other job -- the one that actually pays my rent. So, you'll get the paper when you get it, OK? That's the best I can do.

Bailey

The doc says you're doin' much better and what you really need now is some high-quality REM sleep, and then...

Charlie

Then what? I'll only have cancer? ... Just let me be OK with 'whatever happens is gonna happen.' It's so much better that way. If I get better, I get better -- that's great. If I die, I die -- that's not so great. But, you know what -- it's there. So please, just let me stop pretending that it's not.

Is there a plan in place if Charlie doesn't recover?

Bailey

Hey, he's gonna get better.

Julia

He really is.

I'm sorry, but you don't know that. I know you don't want to hear this, but I believe these kids are being neglected.

Bailey

But that's...come on. It's not like they're living on the street, or they're not eating.

No, but frankly, I think the two of you are in way over your heads, and look at the cost. You've got a 15-year-old who practically dropped out at school, and nobody noticed! That's neglect. And as far as I can tell, she's the one who ends up looking after Owen a lot of the time. Now, this is a girl who has not yet demonstrated that she can take care of herself, let alone a 4-year-old. And does anybody make time for that little boy, or is it just about shuttling him to and from daycare? Because that's also neglect.

Julia

Look, we're really trying.

You know what I see? I see a family that is one step away from complete disaster, and I will not let that happen.

Bailey

[at 3:00 a.m.] Wrong number. My heart is pounding.

Julia

God, phone calls in the middle of the night, huh?

Charlie

Phones used to ring all the time in the middle of the night. It just meant Dad was hung up at the restaurant or Mom's car battery died after rehearsal, that's all. 'Til that night. Some police officer, Sergeant Dubrowsky. Darrell Dubrowsky, saying "There's been an accident, son." Saying it real slow. Saying it twice. March 22, 1994, at 11:45. That's when phone calls in the middle of the night stopped being nothing. And nothing's ever been nothing since, you know? You don't see your brother when you pull up to daycare -- he's been kidnapped. Your sister gets home late from a music lesson -- she got hit by a bus. Doctor tells you your test results turned up an irregularity -- you're gonna die. I guess that's the way life works, you know? I know that now.

Julia

Charlie.

Bailey

Come on, man -- don't do this to yourself.

Charlie

Did I do it to myself? I don't know, Bay. For 24 years I believed that everything always turned out OK. And then March 22, 1994 happened, and now I don't.

Bailey

Why do I feel like I did something wrong?

Julia

'Cause that's you, Bay.

Bailey

Why? Why is that me? Because I wasn't always like this, Jul. You remember, when I was, like, 15 years old? I was getting in trouble all the time, blowing off my curfew...

Julia

Well, that's just being a kid. You were a kid.

Bailey

Right. And then they died. They checked out and the next day I was, I was this adult. I went from being 15 one day to 45 the next.

Bailey

Are you finding this really sad?

Sarah

You mean Charlie's acting?

Bailey

It's like we jumped into bed so we wouldn't have to talk, you know?

Sarah

I'll take your word for it.

I think it's time you got yourself a grown-up doctor. A regular GP, someone who deals more with the issues a man your age can face.

Bailey

My age? But what if I don't wanna? What if I like you, Dr. Bob?

Have a lolly.

Sarah

You take a snapshot of your life the last time you leave someplace, and, I don't know, it's dumb, but you think it's never gonna change.

Bailey

You figured you could go back any night at eleven and they'd be watching Nightline.

Sarah

Yeah, you get this.

Bailey

I've got snapshots too, with parents in them.

Julia

What do they do at a Kiwanis meeting anyways?

Bailey

Sacrifice a virgin for all I know.

Bailey

You're in serious trouble, man.

Charlie

Why? How do you figure?

Bailey

Well, there's gonna come a day when she walks through the door four hours after her curfew and she's got a hickey on her neck the size of a baseball and she declares her undying love for a guy who's got a tattoo on his bicep that reads 'Born Dead' - a guy named Meat, and that's not even his nickname. Man, I should just start saving for your bail now.