Julia Salinger quotes from Party of Five

Claudia

I don't have anybody.

Julia

What?

Claudia

You've got Griffin. Bailey has Annie. I don't have anybody.

Julia

I guess I just sometimes wish I went to college, that's all.

Griffin

Instead of what?

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.

Julia

[about Griffin] It feels bad coming home to an empty house. Except it feels empty even when he's here.

Justin

Well, I guess you gotta decide which feels less bad.

Julia

I keep noticing that my ring is gone... see, there's a line where it used to be.

Griffin

Just wait, it'll go away.

Julia

What do they do at a Kiwanis meeting anyways?

Bailey

Sacrifice a virgin for all I know.

It's me, it's obviously me. It's something I'm doing, or not doing. It's my overbite, or my deodorant. Whatever it is, it's okay, sometimes these things are just chemical.

Julia

Josh, it is so not you.

It's not?

Julia

It's him.

Him. Him?

Julia

Where's Maggie?

Ned

Are you kidding? She thinks these movies are... I wanna get this right... an exploitation of women, a celebration of violence, and the ultimate proof that at the lowest common denominator, nothing gets our juices flowing like pain and cruelty.

Julia

Well, if she's gonna be *that* way about it...

Julia

Say something to distract me.

Ned

I'm in love with you.

Julia

Something else. Something not so complicated.

Julia

Put down the remote. No more pay-per-view porno 'till we're done.

Ned

It's only soft-core, and we never would have stayed awake last night without it.

Julia

Okay, but I'm about to write Stalin into a three-way, so not now.

Charlie

I just lost it. 'Cause it, you know, hit me that I'm alone.

Julia

It's OK, Charlie. OK, she's gone. So then now you've gotta think about what's important. Diana is important, and you, your life. Charlie, God, you gotta remember -- you almost weren't here. Be important to yourself, Charlie. 'Cause, I mean, where would we be? And you're not alone. You're never alone, OK?

Charlie

How could a mother just walk out on her baby, Jule? ... I know it's hard to take care of people, even when you love 'em. God, do I know that! But you don't just leave.

Julia

Well, see, you don't know. Because you don't leave. That's not who you are. Daphne is Daphne, and maybe when she thinks about it, then...

Charlie

No. Daphne is gone.

Julia

You're still in my life, Griffin. You live with my family, for God's sakes. And it's not fair for you to have to worry about me, when I can't... I can't worry about you anymore, I can't... worry about you anymore, Griffin... please.

Griffin

So this... this... that's it?

Julia

That's it.

Julia

Who the hell do you think you are?

Charlie

Julia, please. Just get your stuff, we want to take you home.

Julia

I am not coming with you.

Bailey

Julia, pack your stuff, we'll talk about this at home.

Julia

This is my home.

Bailey

Julia, you can't lie to us about this anymore, okay? We know what's going on.

Julia

No, you don't. Like you said: I don't get a vote in your lives, you don't get a vote in mine.

Bailey

This is not about a vote, this is about keeping you safe. So just pack your stuff, and we'll talk about it later.

Julia

I don't want to talk about it later.

Charlie

Julia, please. Come on, come with us.

Julia

Ned and I are working this out, okay? He's getting help, he's seeing someone, I'm going to work this out, Charlie, I'm gonna make it work. Shocking, but true. I'm not quitting on him.

Charlie

That guy beats women! Alright? It's not your problem to work it out.

Julia

No, it is. Because he loves me.

Charlie

If he loved you, he wouldn't be hitting you.

Julia

No. No, he does love me.