- [a childhood memory]
- Young Melinda: Mom, why won't you talk to me about Sarah? It isn't fair.
- Beth Gordon: Melinda, please stop doing this. I suffered through years of it with my mother. I'm not gonna go through it again!
- Young Melinda: Go through what? What are you talking about?
- Beth Gordon: I can't do this. Just go to your room, Melinda! Go on!
- Jim Clancy: [seeing Melinda in her nightgown] Oh, bedtime already. The things I have to do.
- Melinda Gordon: You stay and study. I have to meet someone in the bedroom.
- Jim Clancy: Say again?
- Melinda Gordon: My little friend.
- Beth Gordon: I give up. From now on, you just celebrate her birthday any damn way you want and leave me out of it.
- Melinda Gordon: Oh, what's there to talk about? Single mother didn't do a very good job. Pretty common story.
- Jim Clancy: But she raised a pretty uncommon daughter.
- Melinda Gordon: Yeah, that's part of the problem.