- Bailey Salinger: [to Sarah] Hey, why do you have to be so cold?
- Sarah Reeves: Why do you have to be so judgmental?
- Bailey Salinger: I'm not... I 'm not. I'm just... I'm just trying... I'm trying to find you, is what I'm trying to do.
- Sarah Reeves: Well, here I am.
- Bailey Salinger: No, I know, but it's not "you" you. You're different. It started when you hooked up with the band. That when you guys were singing, you would cop this attitude and now it's like you're a completely different person all the time.
- Sarah Reeves: I'm 16, Bailey. I'm still finding out who I am, and maybe... maybe who you're seeing, maybe that's the real me.
- Bailey Salinger: Well, she's not the you that I fell in love with.
- Sarah Reeves: Which means what? That if I change, you're not going to love me anymore?
- Bailey Salinger: That's not what I said.
- Sarah Reeves: Because I might change, Bailey, but that should be a good thing. And if being with you means that I can't change, then there's something wrong with being with you, not something wrong with changing.
- [walks away]
- Charlie Salinger: [to Kathleen] Can we sit down for a second?
- [he and Kathleen sit down and he takes a deep breath]
- Charlie Salinger: I want you to know that I think you're a really great person.
- Kathleen Isley: Okay...
- Charlie Salinger: You've been incredibly good to me. I mean, really, really generous. So I want to be fair. That stuff you said last night about us moving forwards and about us not being so casual. The thing is, Kathleen, I like casual. Casual really works for me. Casual is what I thought we were doing here, but I don't know. I guess you're right. We can't be casual forever. And if you're not ready to get serious, well, that... that says something. I guess eventually you either fall in love or you don't.
- Kathleen Isley: And I'm guessing you're in category B.
- Charlie Salinger: I'm sorry. Since you've been so honest with me and I thought that I owed it to you...
- Kathleen Isley: [looking upset] Uh-huh. Thank you for being honest.
- [walks off]
- Julia Salinger: [to Griffin] You go to church?
- Griffin Holbrook: Well, I kind of have to. Part of the military school plan.
- Julia Salinger: My dad used to take us to church...
- Griffin Holbrook: Yeah. My parents too. Every Sunday, my mom and I would have a huge fight over wearing a tie. When I came here, it was like one more thing I have to do, you know? Punishment, great. I don't know. One day, I started to see things differently. I actually started to listen to what the guy was saying. A lot of the stuff I could care less about. But the main stuff, the overall feelings... it's cool. This is the only place where all the bad stuff that I've done... all of the mistakes that I've made, don't matter.
- [pause]
- Griffin Holbrook: They matter. They just don't change what I'm worth. As a person. Here I'm... loved. No matter what. My parents would never say that to me. Even if they thought it they wouldn't say it. I guess yours can't either, huh?
- [Julia rests her head on Griffin's shoulder]
- Julia Salinger: [to Griffin] Maybe I'll stay. It's nice here.
- Griffin Holbrook: No, it's not. The music sucks and the people talk funny.
- Julia Salinger: Well, it's nice being with you. What do you have at that place, a bunk? Maybe you could hide me in your bunk.
- Griffin Holbrook: You probably shouldn't joke about that.
- Julia Salinger: Yeah, probably not.
- Griffin Holbrook: Because, uh, I mean, you've got a life back there. You've got... well, a lot of things back there.
- Julia Salinger: Yeah, but I feel so far away from them now. I don't know if I can, you know, feel like this back there.
- Griffin Holbrook: I just think you've got to hang in there and do the time. I mean, that's the one thing you know is going to change. For every sucky day you live, you don't have to live it again. It's done. You did it. Move on. Maybe the next one won't suck.
- Julia Salinger: And if it does?
- Griffin Holbrook: Same philosophy. Just... do the time.