- [Ashley and George are in Amy's room, and Ashley is reading Amy's journal]
- Ashley Juergens: [reads aloud] You were the full moon at midnight, sending the sweetness of light into my cup of tea.
- [pause]
- Ashley Juergens: Uh, she's not having sex.
- George Juergens: Are you sure?
- Ashley Juergens: Well, not good sex.
- George Juergens: What do you know about that? Good sex?
- Ashley Juergens: Dad, I know poetry and I know a cup of tea doesn't represent good sex. I don't think they're even hugging.
- George Juergens: I think it's time you and me have a talk.
- Ashley Juergens: Oh, Dad, please, this isn't the sex talk, right?
- George Juergens: Of course it's the sex talk. I figure if I have the sex talk with you, maybe you won't want to have sex.
- Ashley Juergens: Probably not.
- George Juergens: Okay, this is all you need to know...
- Ashley Juergens: [interrupts] Dad, I have internet access and a pregnant sister. I know where babies come from.
- Jack Pappas: [to Grace] Ricky's a psycho. Like we didn't know that already, but it's been confirmed.
- Grace Bowman: You shouldn't start rumors like that, Jack.
- Jack Pappas: Oh, it's not a rumor. It's a fact.
- Grace Bowman: What do you mean?
- Jack Pappas: Under all those layered T-shirts is probably a straitjacket.
- Grace Bowman: What?
- Jack Pappas: He's in therapy.
- Grace Bowman: Yeah, so? I've been in therapy, too.
- Jack Pappas: Shhh!
- Grace Bowman: What is wrong with you? I don't care if people know I've been in therapy. When we adopted Tom, our whole family went to therapy, together and separately, just to talk through it. It was very helpful.
- Jack Pappas: Grace, people already think you're weird enough.
- Grace Bowman: Well, I don't care what people think. I've been in therapy.
- Jack Pappas: Just please trust me on this one, OK? That's two strikes against you. You're a Christian and you've been to therapy. You're a crazy Christian. You really want that getting out?
- Grace Bowman: [to everyone in the hallway] I'm a crazy Christian! Yeah, I am. I'm a crazy Christian.
- Ruben Enriquez: [to Adrian] I don't want you seeing Ricky anymore.
- Adrian Lee: That is not your decision! You do not decide who I go out with! And you know what? I'm sorry. I am so sorry I ever looked you up. Just go back to where you came from, and I promise I will never bother you again. Ever.
- Ruben Enriquez: I can't make that same promise.
- Adrian Lee: It's too late! Don't you get it? I'm all grown up! I have my period and everything! I menstrate! I take birth control pills! I have sex! Protected sex! With condoms! I don't need parents!
- Ruben Enriquez: Adrian, listen to me. You're going out with a guy who's in therapy for God knows what. Your girlfriend, the crazy Christian cheerleader, has been in some sort of altercation and was just interrogated by the police, and she's interested in your boyfriend, by the way. But what really bothers me is that everyone in this school seems to think that you're a slut. You need an adult in your life. Your mother wants to be your best friend, and I don't. You need me. Otherwise, you wouldn't have come to see me.
- Adrian Lee: I made a mistake.
- Ruben Enriquez: Well, before you make any serious mistakes, let's see what we can do to get your life going in the right direction.
- Adrian Lee: Well, what does that mean, get my life in the right direction? That's what my mother said. What are you two talking about?
- Ruben Enriquez: Adrian, I think you need to realize that you have a lot more to offer to this world than just sex.
- Adrian Lee: Ay dios mio.
- Ruben Enriquez: Come on. Give yourself a chance to have everything in life. It's all there for the taking. Change to this private school so you have a shot at making it to one of the top universities. You're a leader, not a follower. I see you becoming a governor, a senator, a judge. Forgive me, Adrian and let me make up the past 16 years to you.