Kathy Bates credited as playing...
Patricia
- Patricia: I bet you've had a hard time walking into a room full of people on your own, right? Yeah. I know that. I know what it is, not to feel like you're in the room, until he looks at you or touches your hand or even makes a joke at your expense, just to let everyone know... you're with him. You're his.
- Patricia: So now, all alone or not, you gotta walk ahead. Thing to remember is if we're all alone, then we're all together in that too.
- [Holly's place is trashed after 3 weeks of neglect. Garbage everywhere. She doesn't notice, because she is singing along with movie musicals. She's wearing an old rolled-up shirt of Gerry's and his boxer pants]
- Holly Kennedy: [singing along with Judy Garland:] And never a new love will be the same / Good riddance, good-bye!
- [She turns and finds her mother and friends have opened her front door with birthday party gifts. They stare at each other in shock. Holly clicks off the TV. Her mother, Patricia, is aghast; her sister, Ciara, is grinning hopefully; Denise and Sharon are mortified. Ciara and Denise rally enough to applaud Holly's singing performance. There are assorted cries of Happy Birthday and whistles]
- Ciara: You're thirty!
- John McCarthy: [John enters] Hey, Holly, these keep falling out of your mailbox.
- [He stops and frowns]
- John McCarthy: What is that smell?
- Holly Kennedy: I wasn't expecting company. Mom! Don't clean.
- Patricia: I'm not. I'll just organize the garbage.
- Denise Hennessey: We did try to call, first.
- Sharon McCarthy: Are you drunk?
- Holly Kennedy: [defensively] No.
- Ciara: [cheerily] Do you wanna be?
- Patricia: Ciara.
- [to Holly, referring to a tiny bandage on her forehead]
- Patricia: What happened to your head?
- Holly Kennedy: Pimple.
- Patricia: You're not showering?
- Denise Hennessey: [Helpfully] Well, you always squeeze it too hard.
- John McCarthy: What is that smell?
- Holly Kennedy: It's me! All right?
- Sharon McCarthy: Hey, hey. Don't be like that.
- Holly Kennedy: [Almost in tears] Like what?
- Sharon McCarthy: Like the only lonely widow in Gotham City.
- Holly Kennedy: I'm not, just... really exhausted!
- Denise Hennessey: Yeah, well
- [nodding at the TV]
- Denise Hennessey: , what are you doing, two shows a night?
- Patricia: You know the worst thing for a parent... second after losing a child? Watching your child head for the same life you had. You can't stop it. It's a terrible, helpless feeling. Makes you angry all the time. And I've been angry. For a very long time. I'm exhausted.
- Holly Kennedy: Do you think we'll ever see dad again?
- Patricia: No sweetheart, never. So you have to stop waiting.
- Patricia: [to guy working the bar] Take a break, will you?
- Holly Kennedy: Mom?
- Patricia: What's the matter?
- Holly Kennedy: [crying] When daddy left, I was fourteen, and I said... That's it, never again, no man. And then I meet Gerry. This wonderful man happens to me and then, and then he died! What was the point?
- Patricia: I know.
- Holly Kennedy: I'm so angry I could kill somebody. I'm alone, and it doesn't matter what job I have or what I do or what I don't do or what friends I have, he's not here. I mean, you're alone, no matter what.
- Patricia: That's right.
- Holly Kennedy: [still crying] God. I didn't come here for you to give me some bullshit honest answer. Why can't you lie to me just once?
- Patricia: I'm sorry, sweetheart.
- Holly Kennedy: [sobbing] I can't breathe. I can't breathe.
- Patricia: C'mon, let's take a walk.