Will McCorkle quotes from Party of Five

Will

Of course, my folks have this law that if I'm not in school they withdraw all love.

Will

Having a baby right now is gonna ruin my life. Forget having the time to figure out who I am or what I want. I'll never have the chance. Hannah has this baby and I am stuck being the person I am right this second. No college. No job. No clue. And that is not somebody ready to raise a kid.

Bailey

[about his crush on Kirsten] Any suggestions?

Will

Yeah. Snap out of it. Do you have any clue how to analyze the poem "To His Coy Mistress" in terms of its theme, metaphor, imagery and meter?

Bailey

Not off the top of my head.

Will

Well you better figure it out, cause if you spend the next 3 days mooning over this babysitter and blow this paper, you get put on academic probation and get benched from the team, and we lose another game. Ten other guys are gonna come to your house and do a job on your face so no girl will find you attractive again, OK?

Bailey

Girls switch boyfriends all the time.

Will

Well what are you going to do? Just call her up and tell her to break up with him? And go out with you instead?

Bailey

No, I'm gonna, you know... I'm just gonna... hang around her a lot.

Claudia

Yeah, you know... Just be there all the time.

Bailey

Yeah.

Will

Gee, why didn't I think of that.

Bailey

And then you know, eventually she'll fall for me.

Claudia

Like a ton of bricks.

Will

And why is that again?

Claudia

Duh... He's Bailey.

Bailey

I'm such a moron. I can't believe what a moron I am.

Will

You are a moron.

Bailey

I...I just, kinda forced the issue.

Will

The issue?

Bailey

With Kate about Tom.

Will

The boyfriend?

Bailey

Yep.

Will

You said him or you?

Bailey

Pretty much.

Will

Wow

Bailey

Yeah

Will

And?

Bailey

And what? Would I be a moron if everything would have worked out?

Will

Good point by you.

Bailey

Okay so I hire 2 big guys to kidnap him and take him off to some remote island or Hawaii, someplace. Just so Kate doesn't see him for a while and then eventually she forgets all about him.

Will

Hmm. I don't know Bay. Kidnapping? I don't think they let you graduate from high school if you've kidnapped somebody.

Sarah

Wait a minute. Excuse me. But how is a road trip to Mexico a rite of passage? Are you getting this, Julia?

Julia

You know what? I say just be supportive and wave adios so the two of them will shut up already and hit the highway. Send me a postcard.

Will

Glad to.

Bailey

No, no. This is not about postcards. Will, this is not about documenting an experience. It's about having one. It's about driving too fast and partying too late and-- And sleeping too long and living too hard.

Will

Damn, he's good.

Julia

No, no, no, no, no. He's just seen way too many beer commercials.

Bailey

Because there comes a time in every man's life, when he has to sit on a beach and take stock of where he's been and where he's going. There comes a time when he just has to take a deep breath and swallow the worm.

Sarah

Swallow the worm? Is that a metaphor?

Will

A tequila reference, actually.

Sarah

Oh.

Bailey

Hey, Jule.

Julia

Griffin? Uh, hey, I-I don't understand. When--?

Griffin

A few days ago.

Julia

Ah.

Griffin

Uh, how you been? You look...

Julia

I-I didn't hear from you. You-- Didn't you get my letters at school?

Griffin

Your letters?

Julia

Mm-hmm.

Griffin

Um, no, no, I-- See, no, no, as soon as I'd done my time and my term was over, I was-- I was outta the place. My roommate's old man's got, uh, this shipping operation down in Florida. He got me this merchant marine gig. My boat's-- I just got back from Bangkok. They got weird food in Bangkok.

Julia

Um, you didn't call or anything.

Griffin

N-no. Um, I thought about it. I decided it would be a bad idea, you know, c-considering how things are with you and Justin.

Julia

We broke up. Uh, Justin and me, l-last s-spring, I-I wrote you. I wro-- I wrote you all about it.

Griffin

Wow. You broke up?

Julia

Yeah.

Griffin

I didn't know.

Julia

I can't believe it's you.

Will

What is that?

Bailey

What?

Will

It's your window, I think.

Bailey

What? No way. Oh no! I don't believe it! Damn it! Is there something you want to say here, Will?

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.

Claudia

I know that they were having problems, but to do it over the phone... It seems kind of cold.

Griffin

Hey, you mind if I grab one of these muffins? Everything in my refrigerator at home tastes like beer.

Julia Salinger

[to Griffin] Go for it. [to Claudia] I just don't know if we should judge her, Claud.

Griffin

Judge who?

Julia

Sarah's staying in New York.

Griffin

What, for how long? Couple more weeks?

Claudia

Indefinitely. I mean, she might not be coming home.

Griffin

So that's it, she's just gone?

Will

[Will enters the room] Hey, blueberry muffins. Anybody mind? My parents charge me for breakfast now. Somebody say somebody's gone? Who's gone?

Julia

Sarah's staying in New York. She's not coming back.

Will

What? You mean like permanently?

Julia

Could be.

Will

Oh, man. Is Bailey freaking?

Claudia

Hard to tell. He's been up in his room ever since he told us... Packing Sarah's stuff.

Griffin

Look, we were talking, and... We're thinking that...

Will

We changed our minds. We wanna keep going.

Griffin

Hit the Big Apple with you.

Will

Go the distance, all right?

Bailey

You guys know how far we still have to go? Through, like... Eight or nine more states. We've just been through three, and already... We've broken down... Fighting... We've had all these problems, and there's... That still leaves eight. Sarah is so far away. She's so far away.

Marriage, as we know, is a venerable, auspicious institution laden with joy and promise. But it is also a solemn ordinance, not to be entered into frivolously or deceptively without the assurance of deep, ardent love and commitment. Now, do you young people have anything that you would like to say before we continue?

A poem to read? A thought? [to Will] Young man?

Will

[to Holly] You look nice.

Thank you.

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