- [last lines]
- Julia Salinger: [Julia is with Griffin in the hospital] How you feeling?
- Griffin Holbrook: I've been better. How's Daphne?
- Julia Salinger: She's fine.
- Griffin Holbrook: Have you been here all night? Isn't there some place that...
- Julia Salinger: No, I... I wanted to stay here.
- [he coughs]
- Julia Salinger: They, um... they had to do some surgery on your hand, so...
- Griffin Holbrook: It hurts like hell.
- Julia Salinger: I'll get the nurse.
- Griffin Holbrook: No, Julia. No, just... Just tell me, am I gonna be okay?
- Julia Salinger: Yeah, you're gonna be great.
- Griffin Holbrook: Just tell me, okay?
- Julia Salinger: Well, the doctor... there was... a hand surgeon. She's... she's really helpful. But I mean, this place is the best in the city for this kind of thing, so...
- Griffin Holbrook: So, they don't know?
- Kirsten Bennett Salinger: [outside the hospital]
- [Kirsten brings a cupcake to Charlie]
- Kirsten Bennett Salinger: Happy Birthday.
- Charlie Salinger: Yeah. You know, I was looking at Griffin lying there, lying in that bed. Not too long ago, that was me.
- Kirsten Bennett Salinger: I remember.
- Charlie Salinger: And I promised myself that if I ever got out of there alive, I wasn't gonna waste time on the stuff that doesn't matter. I'm gonna quit teaching, Kirsten.
- Kirsten Bennett Salinger: Charlie...
- Charlie Salinger: Yeah, the factory pays more, and we need that money.
- Kirsten Bennett Salinger: Yeah, but you... you love the teaching better.
- Charlie Salinger: That's not what matters now. What matters the most to me right now is making this baby. The rest of it... It'll come in time. Stuff I always dreamed about, the designing stuff, it'll come.
- Kirsten Bennett Salinger: Are you sure?
- Charlie Salinger: Yeah. The funny thing is, I am. There's just been so many times that... I mean, when Mom and Dad died and I had to put my whole life on hold. When you went away, when I got sick... I kept just having to trust fate, you know? And if I just held on, the things that I wanted would come back to me. And they always did. And they will again. If I just hold on, they will again.