Marie: You're leaving the children to strangers?
Ray: Ma, Bernie and Linda aren't strangers.
Marie: Please. Please, you don't owe me any explanation. They're your children. It's your life, isn't it?
Ray: That's been the dream.
Marie: Well, I don't want to keep you. I just came over to try to, you know, help.
Ray: Ma, if Bernie and Linda drop dead, you're on deck!
Debra: Well, thank you. And that's for the children. Tell them it's from... a friend. [exits, returns] You know, actually, this could be a good lesson for me. To learn to be content with what is and not to hope for what could be.
Debra: So what could be is us dying and you raising our children?
Marie: Well, not anymore.