Quotes
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Sammy Jo Dean Carrington : [entering living room] Steven. What are you doing?
Steven Carrington : [moody] Thinking.
Sammy Jo Dean Carrington : Want some company?
Steven Carrington : No.
[realizing he's being callous, looks around at her]
Steven Carrington : Thank you.
Sammy Jo Dean Carrington : It's late. Why don't you come to bed?
Steven Carrington : Look, I... I really need a little bit of time to myself.
Sammy Jo Dean Carrington : I was just trying to help.
Steven Carrington : [impatiently] I'm not an invalid.
Sammy Jo Dean Carrington : I didn't say you were.
Steven Carrington : [bursting out] But you act like it. You're so damn careful not to say the wrong thing, or make the wrong move.
Sammy Jo Dean Carrington : Well, with you, every move I make is the wrong move.
[this doesn't please him]
Sammy Jo Dean Carrington : I'm sorry, I didn't mean that.
Steven Carrington : Then what did you mean?
Sammy Jo Dean Carrington : [sighs] Look, we're both tired, why don't we just talk about it in the morning?
Steven Carrington : Nothing's gonna change in the morning, Sammy Jo. You've got to face it. You've got to accept it. I cannot be something I'm not. I cannot change who I am.
Sammy Jo Dean Carrington : [as he goes off] Steven! Steven!
[no use, sighs]
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Sammy Jo Dean Carrington : Leave? Where will you go?
Steven Carrington : I don't know.
Sammy Jo Dean Carrington : What about Danny?
Steven Carrington : You're his mother, Sammy Jo. He loves you. You're wonderful with him. I can't think of anybody else I'd rather trust with his life.
Sammy Jo Dean Carrington : What will you do?
Steven Carrington : I don't know. But I can't go on hurting the people I love. I gotta go.
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Sammy Jo Dean Carrington : [just woke up] Good morning.
[Steven, slumped, is sitting on the end of the bed]
Sammy Jo Dean Carrington : How long have you been awake?
Steven Carrington : Most of the night.
Sammy Jo Dean Carrington : Is something wrong?
Steven Carrington : Yeah... We're wrong.
Sammy Jo Dean Carrington : [little laugh] What are you talking about?
Steven Carrington : I'm talking about us. About me.
[sighs]
Steven Carrington : Last night...
Sammy Jo Dean Carrington : But, Steven, we made love last night. I wasn't pretending, we're you?
Steven Carrington : [shakes head] It's not a matter of pretending.
Sammy Jo Dean Carrington : [uncertainly] Then what is it?
Steven Carrington : [softly] Sammy Jo, you... you think that because we made love, that everything's fine, you think that I've changed, but I haven't. I can't.
Sammy Jo Dean Carrington : I'm not asking you to change.
Steven Carrington : No, but that's what you're hoping for, and it's wrong. It's wrong for me. It's wrong for you.
Sammy Jo Dean Carrington : It's not wrong for me. I love you, and I love being with you, and holding you. People change, Steven.
Steven Carrington : Part of me... is never going to change, Sammy Jo. Don't you understand that I can't be the kind of man you want me to be, and I can't lie to myself about it.
Sammy Jo Dean Carrington : Then what do you want?
Steven Carrington : I don't know, but it can't be this.
Sammy Jo Dean Carrington : [realizes it is over] What are we gonna do?
[cries]
Steven Carrington : [cradling her head] I wish I knew.
[she sobs]
Steven Carrington : I'm sorry.