LUX: Where were you?
CATE: What?
LUX: I was out there my whole life. Where were you all that time? You never even checked. You never wondered what had happened? If I was ok?
CATE: I didn’t really think that I had to worry. You know, because they told me that you were gonna be adopted. That you were gonna have a better life. I really, I really thought that I was doing what was right for you.
LUX: It wasn’t for me, If it was for me, you would have checked. No, you did it for you. You did the right thing for you.
BAZE: Lux, it’s not all on Cate. I wasn’t there exactly, either.
LUX: Yeah, but you didn’t know. And no one who knew you would have expected you to be there.
CATE: I was 16 years old. I didn’t have anyone to turn to. You know, my mother, she was drinking her way through another divorce. I even wrote a letter to my father, but when I realized that don’t know where to send it, you know, that’s when it hit me. I had no idea what a good parent was. There was just no way that I could be one, not at 16.
LUX: Then what about a few years after that? When I was three and stuck in a hospital where no one visited? Or two years after that when my foster mom shoved me into a wall and told the social worker that I fell off a swing. Where were you?… We used to make up these stories about why we were given up. Because we didn’t want to believe that our parents, our mothers could hold us, their babies, and just give us up. But you did. You gave me away to nothing, like I didn’t matter to you because I didn’t.
CATE: No, no, Lux, you do. You matter now…No, Lux, you matter, you do, you matter now, Lux.
LUX: No, now it doesn’t count. I…’m sorry. I don’t forgive you, Cate. I don’t.Life Unexpected, 1x10 Family Therapized
Cate: The beer goes right to your head, huh?
Life Unexpected 1.05 - “Turtle Undefeated”
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Cate: Ryan, I only wanted to be a person that’s worthy of you. I still do, whether or not we’re together. I can’t thank you enough for everything.
Ryan: Kicking me out now or what?
Cate: No, of course not.
Ryan: ‘Cause I could stay. I could help you find that missing sock ‘cause I really don’t want to deal with your cold feet tonight.
Cate: Really?
Ryan: Come here.Life Unexpected 1.10 - “Family Therapized”(via sundaystorms)
