- Amy Gray: I have to look at the offender as well as the offense. We can't treat all cases the same. Mr. Clancy took his teacher at his word and asked for help. He didn't get it. If we want our children to grow up in an atmosphere of honesty and trust, then we have to hold up our end of the bargain. If I refuse to exhibit any tolerance, then I'll be re-enforcing Mr. Clancy's notion that people in positions of authority are not to be trusted.
- Maxine Gray: Sean, you have an office full of competent social workers.
- Sean Potter: No, I don't. I have an office full of well-intentioned, but under-experienced social workers. I need someone who knows the ropes and who's motivated.
- Maxine Gray: I'm not motivated.
- Sean Potter: Well, sitting at your desk isn't going to make your son get better.
- [Maxine becomes upset]
- Sean Potter: Which is none of my business, of course. Without you, this case is going nowhere, so like it or not, you've got a decision to make.
- Lauren Cassidy: How come you teach babies to burp and then you tell kids not to burp?
- Amy Gray: It's the cycle of life, honey.
- Maxine Gray: That's right. We learn things and then we unlearn them.
- Gillian Gray: Maxine, you should come to Ned's music and movement class sometime.
- Maxine Gray: Music and movement? He's four months old. The only music and movement he should be doing is in his diapers.
- Lauren Cassidy: Do you still have birthdays when you're dead?
- Maxine Gray: You do as long as people remember them.
- Gillian Gray: Maxine, I've waited all this time to be a mother, to give you a grandchild. I thought that it would finally make me feel like part of this family, but now that it's happened, you're too busy. You have no interest in him. He's closer to the woman at the dry cleaners' than he is to you.