Crazy PeteThings will happen in your life that you can't stop. But that's no reason to shut out the world.
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Young Samantha Albertson[walking to Dear Johnny's grave to lay flowers and sees Crazy Pete putting flowers on Johnny and his mothers grave]You're Peter Sims
Crazy Pete[nods in agreement, turns to face the headstones]They were my family...
Crazy PeteWell Samantha... Things will happen in your life that you can't stop... But that's no reason to shut out the world... There's a purpose for the good and for the bad...
Samantha[Older Samantha's voice narrating]He gave me the only gift he could... The lesson that had taken him a lifetime to learn... And although I understood the importance of his words... It's only now looking back that I understand their meaning
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SamanthaAs we grow older, it becomes difficult to just believe. It's not that we don't want to, but too much has happened and we can't.
RobertaNO IT'S NOT OK! It's not OK! Why did they have to die? Why did SHE have to die? My dad lied to me he said that this BEAUTIFUL angel swooped down to earth and he carried her away... BEFORE SHE HAD A SECOND TO FEEL ANY PAIN! Why did she have to die? Why did he have to lie to me? He's all I have left and he lied...
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BullyWhy don't you go home and play with your dolls.
TeenyTeeny, "You are a sexual magnet... attracting men from the four corners of the world. Pace yourself."
[Smiles]
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RobertaI think you'll make a great mum Chrissy, a little overbearing and rigid, but by the grace of God the kid will come out relativity unharmed, if not there's always therapy.
SamanthaThis whole baby thing baffles me, I mean you have it, you raise it, you inevitably screw it up, it resents you, feels guilty for resenting you and then it has a baby, which only perpetuates the vicious cycle.
ChrissyI say we make a pact. Here and now. We're here for each other, always, no matter what happens in life. If Teeny goes off to Hollywood or I marry a rich doctor, we remember this day and this pact. Whenever we need a friend, we're here for each other. We can count on it. Always. No matter what.
SamanthaYou can run from the dissapointments you're trying to forget. But its only when you embrace your past that you truly move forward. Maybe Thomas Wolfe never got to go home again, but I found my way there. And I'm glad I did.
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SamanthaTeeny's parents were country-clubbers that were never around - typical upbringing for actors and pathological liars.
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SamanthaThomas Wolfe once said you can't go home again. Well, that's great for old Tom. But he wasn't a chick who made a pact with her friends when she was twelve to get together whenever any one of them needed each other. So here I am driving back to my childhood home in Indiana a place I can tell you I never wanted to see again.
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SamanthaI guess a promise is a promise. Sure looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.
RobertaRoberta, Young Samantha Albertson: Oh, my God!
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[Explaining sex to her daughter]
Chrissy's MomAll women have a garden, and a garden needs a big hose to water it... or a small hose... as long as it works.
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RobertaYou can't get pregnant from french-kissing!
ChrissyI know that, beetle-brain, but it's common knowledge that if you tongue-kiss a boy, he automatically thinks you'll do the deed with him. They can't help it. They're driven. It's the male curse.
ChrissyYou know... planting the seed and watering the flower. Isn't that how it works?... The man takes his watering can and sprinkles it on the flower.
Chrissy's MomI decided we should talk about what you asked me.
ChrissyAbout sex.
Chrissy's MomYou say that very casually, that's very scary for mommy. It's like, "BOO!" "AAH!" That's what sex is.
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Roberta[the Wormers have attacked the girls with water balloons]We owe you, Wormers! And we always pay our debts!
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Samantha[talking about the night in the graveyard with Crazy Pete]He said something that didn't mean as much then as it does now... He told me that things happen in life that you can't stop but it wasn't a reason to shut out the world...
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SamanthaWow... I realize that... I've been so afraid of the bad things that um... That I've missed out on the good... You know I didn't wanna come back here... But I'm really glad I did... I'd forgotten how much it helped to have you guys as friends... I'm really lucky to have this place... and each other...
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SamanthaWe all used to try so hard to fit in. We wanted to look exactly alike, do all the same things, practically be the same person, but when we weren't looking that all changed. The tree house was supposed to bring us more independence, but what the summer actually brought was independence from each other.
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SamanthaWhen you're 12, without effort, you live in the moment. You don't regret the past or worry about the future, and in that moment, Teeny filled my heart with hope and comfort.
SamanthaNot really. But I figure that it's normal for things to be shity.
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SamanthaI decided not to tell the others about my father, call me a fool but I actually thought he'd be back, a wishful notion I held onto for years. At the time no one in The Gaslight Edition had gotten a divorce and the last thing I wanted was to be different from my friends.