The Last Song

Ronnie: Truth only means something when it's hard to admit! Don't you get that?

Steve: Sometimes you have to be apart from the people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes it makes you love them more.

Jonah: Mom says it's because she has PMS.
Steve: Do you even know what PMS is, Jonah ?
Jonah: Of course I do dad, I'm not a little kid anymore. It's the Pissed At Men Syndrome.

Will: “Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

Jonah: You have dibs. You married her first.

Will: I don’t think you can try funny business at a wedding, sir.
Steve: You can try funny business at a wedding, trust me.
Will: Kinda makes this a mix message then.

Steve: I don’t have too many lectures left on my timecard so I really want you to hear this. Someday you are going to open your heart and you’re going to play again. It’s not going to be to make your mother happy, and it’s not going to be to make me happy, it’ll be for you. Because music, love, they’re gonna bring you joy.

Ronnie’s mom: You have a right to shut down, just don’t push me away.
Ronnie: This is what I do Mom, I push people away. I pushed Will away, too.
Ronnie's Mom: We’re not perfect, any of us. We make mistakes, we screw up, but then we forgive and we move forward. Honey, if you have the courage to feel, you feel everything so deeply. You’re your father’s daughter.

Ronnie: Well I would rather drink my milkshake than wear it, but I’m fine.
Will: I’m sorry.
Ronnie: You look it. Forget it.
Will: Hey look, I really am sorry.
Ronnie: Didn’t we just do this?
Will: I’m Will by the way. Let me buy you another shirt.
Ronnie: No thanks.
Will: C’mon, I’m just practicing southern hospitality.
Ronnie: Really? Is that what they call hitting on strangers now?
Will: You know what? I have no interest in buying you a shirt.
Ronnie: Is that so?
Will: I’m just over here so the other team can catch a breath.
Ronnie: Wow. Pushy and conceited.

Ronnie: My mom shipped me and my brother to my dad’s for the summer. Guess I can babysit turtle eggs while the volleyball player slash (/) aquarium volunteer hits on me every ten seconds.

Jonah: Don’t hello me. I need your name soldier. The commanding officer sent me out with rations. Unfortunately, it’s vegetarian so personally I’d rather eat sand.

Will: Oh, not the hard to get again. Seriously, Ronnie, you read Tolstoy; you take up arms to defend innocent sea turtles. Your ice cube backs aren’t working.

Jonah: What has one eye, speaks French, and really loves cookies? Muah!

Jonah: What if he stays out there forever, what if he never leaves, and then dies?
Steve: Yeah, his corpse is eaten by a bunch of raccoons.
Jonah: And he still doesn’t leave because that’s how powerful his love is.
Steve: Turtles. Turtles eat his corpse.

Ronnie: Will, I did not come here for some stupid summer romance with some stupid local boy who has done this with a thousand other girls.
Will: What?
Ronnie: Ashley told me about all the girls you’ve been with. So I don’t want to be just the next girl on your parade of girls, Will. Going on the same date, doing the exact same thing. I think that’s why it’d be better if we just end it.
Will: End it. End what? Okay, Ronnie, yes, I went out with other girls before I met you. But it was before I met you, so how can you be mad about that?

Will: You’re not like the other girls.

Ronnie: Dad, I’d probably talk about this with a girlfriend if I had one here, but I don’t. So…
Steve: So you want to talk? So, here we go. Let’s talk. Yeah? Alright, um, so you like this guy? You like him a lot?
Ronnie: I like him more than a lot. Is that crazy?
Steve: Well, a little but love is, Ronnie, crazy, a little.
Ronnie: Thank you.

Jonah: Wow. You may be older but I am so much smarter than you.

Jonah: I like Will. I don’t want him breaking up with you just because you look crappy at a wedding.

Steve: Dear Ronnie, I miss the hours we spent together at the piano. I miss being your teacher. I know you see me as having left you but when your mother and I split up I was in a lot of pain. I just needed to come home. I regret moving away from you and Jonah more than anything. I hope you’ll forgive me. Your mom tells me you’ve completely failed your SAT’s but I know how smart you have to be to get every single question wrong. Congratulations, Ronnie. I’ve told you before that none of what happened between your mother and me had anything to do with you or Jonah. Love is fragile Ronnie. We’re not always its best triggers. We just muddle through and do the best we can and hope that this fragile thing survives against all odds.

Steve: You don’t even know who you are, Ronnie.
Ronnie: Who am I?
Steve: You are the kindest, sweetest, most beautiful daughter in the whole world.

Ronnie: People make mistakes, Will, even the people that we love.