Sam: Oh, please, please. Can't we just go to sleep? I'm so very tired. Please!
Cliff: Great, Ma, you made my friend mad. Any wonder I don't have anybody over? Any wonder I don't have any friends?
Esther Clavin: Oh, you don't have friends because of me? Me who spent 36 hours of the most painful labor the hospital had ever seen?
Cliff: There she goes.
Esther Clavin: If you think you're better off without me, you're welcome to live by yourself. Just see how long you can last.
Cliff: Fine!
Esther Clavin: A day. I give it a day. And that's during daylight hours. Night falls and it's, "Where's my mommy?" Cliff: Oh! Oh, is that right? Well, let me tell you, missy, that it takes two to be codependent!
Esther Clavin: You're the enabler! You're the enabler!
Cliff: Oh! I'm the enabler am I tonight, huh? Like last night and the night before?! Well, you know why I'm the enabler?! Because you demand it!
Esther Clavin: Everything I do is wrong! Is that it, Clifford?!
Cliff: Oh, Ma, I'm sorry. Oh, now, don't be upset. I just, I just push too hard.
Esther Clavin: No, I'm too domineering.
Cliff: Oh, Ma, Ma, it's me. l, you know, Ma, it's me. Sam.
Sam: Hmm?
Esther Clavin: Sam, which one of us is worse?