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Mel: We're trying to get pregnant.
Leigh: Like, with a human baby?
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Todd: [Referring to Leigh] Do you remember that red one-piece bathing suit she used to wear? She looked like a Swiss army knife.
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Leigh: Is this parking lot, like, passed down in the DNA of skaters... like a geese migratory path?
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Leigh: I'm not invisible. I'm the fucking lifeguard, mother fucker.
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Leigh: Are you insane? You want to face this cold, harsh world without a high school diploma? Why don't you just blind yourselves while you're at it.
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Leigh: I'm sucking off his youth like a vampire.
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Leigh: I'm allowed to be confused and stumble once in a while.
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Big Jason: This thing with the lifeguard... things happen. Keep moving or die.
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Mel: What is wrong with you?
Todd: I wish everyone would stop saying that!
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Leigh: They're little. They're buried stories I guess. But they're yours so you get attached.
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Leigh: I wanna move back with you guys.
Justine: You're 30 years old.
Leigh: I'm 29 and 10 months. I've never, you know, asked for... I just need some time out of my life.
Justine: Well, we all do.
Hans: Are you alright Leigh?
Leigh: Yeah. I just don't want to turn 30 and still be in that life any more.
Hans: What's wrong with the life you have in the city?
Leigh: It's not... It's not good. I'm not... I'm not happy.
Hans: Are you depressed?
Justine: Is that it? Are you depressed?
Leigh: No, not clinically. My life hasn't turned out like I pictured.
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Leigh: Well, despite our elderliness, some things remain from our youth.
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Leigh: I'm not a babysitter. I'm not here to be screamed at!
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Leigh: I'm just supposed to make sure you don't die.
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Leigh: You're 16. You have your whole life ahead of you. You have no idea how lucky you are right now.
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Mel: I really needed to have fun tonight. And you didn't even care. And you don't even... You never ask how I am...
Leigh: Mel, what's wrong?
Mel: It's just really hard trying to get pregnant.
Leigh: I think that's normal, right?
Todd: Isn't your life perfect?
Mel: No!
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Little Jason: You seem really sad.
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Matt: I'm not staying in this fucking town with these asshole people, okay? There is like a world out there, outside this town.
Leigh: The world is full of assholes.
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Mel: You're my friend, and I let you suck me down this rabbit hole.
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Mel: Do you really think that I could be a mother? Cause I don't know.
John: You are a little out of control. And you're a pervert.
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Little Jason: Why would you do this for me?
Leigh: Because you know who you are. And what you need. You really do. And you're gonna be just fine. You are. Believe me. Believe me.
The Lifeguard Quotes
Extended Reading
