Starr & Langston [2008-2009]

Starr: (to Langston) I know that whenever I'm going through a really bad time, you're the first person that I want to talk to -- even before Cole.


Langston: (about Starr) She and I -- she's my best friend, more like a sister.


[Langston comforts Starr after Todd ruined Starr's night with Cole]
Langston: Starr, I am so sorry. I can't even imagine how horrible this night must've been for you.
Starr: It was supposed to be perfect. Cole and I -- we knew that the time was right. I thought that I was going to be scared because it would be my first time and all, but he made me feel so safe. And then my Dad came in and he ruined it.


[Starr decides to break up with Cole]
Starr: Sometimes when you love someone and you really love them, you have to do what's best for them -- even when it means giving them up.
Langston: That doesn't sound like you, Starr.
Starr: It is me. It's who I am now; it's who I have to be.


[Langston learns that Starr and Cole slept together]
Langston: So, you and Cole, you -- you actually --
Starr: Langston, could you please stop acting so shocked?
Langston: Well, I -- I'm sorry but I just -- I can't believe you actually had sex.
Starr: We made love -- it's different.


Starr: Thank you so much. For everything. You have no idea how much it means to me. And I'm sorry that you've had to deal with my crazy, insane family.
Langston: Yeah.
Starr: But selfishly, I'm glad you're a part of my crazy family. You're the closest thing that I'll ever have to a sister.
Langston: Oh -- I love you.
Starr: Oh, I love you, too.


Langston: So you're pregnant. That's a fact, but we're just -- we're going to figure it out, okay? So -- it's going to be okay. Don't worry --
Starr: It's not going to be okay, Langston. It's not, okay? I'm -- I'm 16, and I'm pregnant -- that's not okay.


Starr: Do you know the whole time I was thinking that it -- it can't happen, that it won't happen to me, it can't be true?
Langston: Look, whatever you decide, I'm here.
Starr: I really don't know what I would do without you here to talk to me.
Langston: Starr, we are going to get through this together, okay?


Langston: I got you something. (she hands Starr a book)
Starr: It's "Your Pregnancy Day by Day"?
Langston: So you know what to expect, what to eat -- those kind of things.
Starr: Langston, I --
Langston: Starr, you can always talk to me. But I've never been pregnant. I can't be of that much help. I mean, this is a baby's life we're talking about. You need to talk to somebody else. An adult. You need to tell them that you're pregnant, and maybe they can help you figure out what you're going to do.


[Starr plans to abort her baby]
Langston: How are you going to get there? I mean, Shaun's on your trail 24/7.
Starr: Okay, is this your way of helping me out?
Langston: This is my way of being realistic.
Starr: Well, I have the realism part covered, okay?


[Langston tries to talk Starr out of having the abortion]
Langston: Starr, I just want you to be 100% sure. I mean, what if next week your dad decides that you and Cole can see each other again?
Starr: Oh -- then that'll be great! Then we can get married and we can raise our child together. Langston, I'm 16 and he's 17. I get cranky when I have to baby-sit Sam and Jack.


Starr: I have another secret weapon. Now, wait here and try on the wig.
[Starr leaves the room and returns with Jack]
Langston: This is your secret weapon -- Jack? We're screwed.


Starr: Langston, I'm 16 and I'm pregnant. Besides my dad hating Cole's guts, he also has information that could put Cole in prison. How is Cole going to make sure that everything's going to be okay?
Langston: All right, listen, what did Cole say? That he loves you? That he's going to take care of you?
Starr: Yeah, he did, but --
Langston: Okay. Well, you've got me, too. I mean, between the two of us, we've got your back.


[Starr plans to run away with Cole]
Starr: This is such a mess. I'm going to miss you so much.
Langston: I'm going to miss you, too.
Starr: Look -- Langston, when my parents find out, I don't know what my dad's going to do and --
Langston: Don't worry about me. I'll be fine.
Starr: I'm going to come back someday, okay? This isn't going to be forever.
Langston: I know.


Langston: (to Todd) Starr loves Cole, too. She loves him, and she just wants to be with him. You just don't get that. You know, before this whole mess happened? She used to make you sound like the best dad in the whole world. She didn't want to leave, but you didn't give her any choice. Okay, I swear that we do not know where they went, but I do know that it killed her to leave that night. She loves her family. She loves Jack and Sam and her mom. She loves you.


[Starr returns to Llanview]
Langston: Look, I know this isn't the way that it was supposed to turn out, but I'm really glad you're back.
Starr: Me, too.


[Starr worries that she won't be able to raise her baby]
Starr: The house that we live in isn't exactly a stable environment.
Langston: Okay, but your mom, your grandma, Dorian and I, we're all going to pitch in and help. I mean, that baby's going to have more love than any other baby in Llanview.
Starr: Okay, just stop with all the Cramer stuff. Really, it gets old.


[Addie and David got married]
Langston: Sorry, but I mean, are you okay about your grandmother and him?
Starr: She looks happy to me.
Langston: Isn't that the meds?


Langston: Talking to Cole all night?
Starr: I want to but I don't know what I would say.
Langston: "I love you," is always a good start.


Starr: I just handled this all better mad than sad, that's all.
Langston: Isn't that a form of denial?
Starr: Okay, denial gets a bad rap. I think that denial works for me.


[Starr and Cole have broken up]
Starr: I'm really glad that you're here, because you're the only one that's telling me that it's not really going to be okay.
Langston: Well, because that would be a lie. This whole thing sucks.


[Langston wants to try to find her biological relatives]
Langston: Maybe my mom had a brother or a sister or a cousin that she didn't want me to know about because she was embarrassed.
Starr: Okay, but, Langston, if she was so embarrassed, wouldn't she have said something to you, like, "Thank God you never met my cousin Wanda because she used to pick her nose at parties"?


[Starr tries to explain why Dorian kept Adriana from her biological father]
Starr: She kept him from Adriana because he was a major criminal.
Langston: Okay, but having the truth kept from her -- Adriana's never gotten over it.
Starr: At least she's alive to be pissed about it.


[Starr is nervous about being pregnant for the first day back at school]
Langston: You want to know how you're going to face the first day of school, and all the other ones after that until you have this baby? You're going to do it with me right there by your side. Okay? I switched all my classes so that I can arrange to be in all of yours. All those bitches and wannabes, they're not just going to have to deal with you, they're going to have to deal with me, too.
Starr: I really don't know what I would do without you.


[Dorian's going to adopt Langston]
Starr: I'm really glad that you're going to be a part of the family now because I really need you.
Langston: Well, you are stuck with me until we're old and rocking out in our rocking chairs at the old ladies' home.
Starr: Rocking?
Langston: Yes.


[Langston's uncle Ray Montez wants to take her back to Colombia]
Starr: Langston, listen to me. You are just as much my family as Sam and Jack is, okay? And I refuse to let him take you away from us.


[Langston is about to fly from Llanview to Colombia]
Cole: Well, we can at least ride with you to the airport, right?
Langston: I don't know, I have to ask my uncle.
Starr: What do you mean, you have to ask him? To hell with him. He can take you to Colombia, but he's not going to control us.
Langston: Starr, think of the baby, okay? Don't get too upset.
Starr: Langston, you're the one being kidnapped, and you're worried about me?
Langston: Yeah. What a year we've both had, huh? I don't think either one of us is ever going to forget 2008.


Starr: You are my best friend, Langston. You are my best friend in the whole world, okay? In the whole world.
Langston: The last time that I checked a world map, Colombia was on it. So, you take care of yourself. Eat your veggies. Have your baby. And you come visit me real soon, okay?


Langston: Remember the first time we met?
Starr: Of course I do. I never met anyone like you before.
Langston: It didn't take us long to realize that we got each other.
Starr: I had never had a best friend until I met you.
Langston: We've been through so much together.


Langston: Do you think your dad would ever go see a shrink?
Starr: Are you kidding me? He thinks he's the poster child for sanity. It's the rest of us that are all crazy, see.


[Starr is in labor with her baby]
Starr: (to Langston) I have two words for you -- "birth control."


Langston: So, how bad does it hurt?
Starr: It's better with the epidural, but -- but before, it didn't just feel like you break your ankle or something or -- or you get a cut. It feels more like your insides are being squeezed.
Langston: Okay, adopting.


Starr: I'm really, really, really scared.
Langston: I know. But you can handle it. You're the strongest person that I know -- besides Dorian, of course.


[Langston visits Starr after the news that Starr's baby has died]
Langston: Feel like company?
Starr: Only if it's you.


Langston: I'm sorry I didn't come earlier. Cole and your mom trumped me. Not like they shouldn't --
Starr: No, I was worried that you were going to think it was sensitive to wait until morning.
Langston: Have I ever been sensitive?
Starr: No, and that's why you're my best friend.
Langston: At least I can still make you smile.
Starr: I think it's the first time that I've smiled since -- since Hope... since she died. Oh, God, Langston. I'm so glad you're here.


Starr: You really got what this baby meant to me. Sometimes I think even more than Cole did.
Langston: I knew about it the first moment you did.
Starr: I wish you could have seen her. She was so beautiful.
Langston: She had to be. She was yours.


Langston: I woke up the therapist that ran the grief counseling Cole and I used to go to. I wanted to know the best thing that I could do for you.
Starr: You're doing it, okay? Being here and talking about the baby, it helps me.
Langston: Yeah, but the therapist said that you might want something to remember the baby by, since you won't have pictures or anything. So I tracked down Dr. Joplin, and I got her to get this for you. It's a lock of Hope's hair.
Starr: Thank you. Thank you.


Langston: You want to go home, don't you?
Starr: Jack and I were supposed to teach Sam how to play five-card stud.
Langston: And after five minutes, Sam would eat the cards and Jack would accuse him of cheating.
Starr: And doesn't that sound like a bunch of fun?


Starr: What'd you do? Fall asleep in your calculus book again?
Langston: Okay, so I hate graphing limits. Do I have to be good at everything?
Starr: You don't have to be, but you are. I wish I was.


Starr: (about Todd) He was at Hope's grave and he was talking to her. And he sounded so sorry. I know he was sorry.
Langston: That doesn't change what he did.


Langston: Okay, I'm sorry. I'm not trying to be a bitch here.
Starr: Oh, you're not? I couldn't tell.


Langston: I don't understand how you can help someone who has done nothing but hurt people.
Starr: Langston, he is my -- he's my dad, okay?
Langston: And you are just like him. And now you're going to have to live with yourself just like he does, because you helped him. You helped him even though he's hurt everybody that you know, including your own child.


[Starr and Langston make up after their fight over Todd]
Langston: Starr, I was alone for so long after my parents died, and then I met you. And finally, I had somebody that I could talk to. And then Dorian took me in, and I had her and I had you and I had a family again. And when I thought that they were going to take you away to jail, all I could think about was losing you. And it came out all wrong. I'm so scared, Starr, okay? I didn't want to be without my best friend. And then I ended up blowing it and being without you anyway. Can you forgive me?
Starr: I forgive you. I missed you a lot.
Langston: I missed you, too, so much.


Starr: It was supposed to be the four of us.
Langston: I know. Our guys going to college, you and me finishing high school so we could be with them.
Starr: Fantastic four. Doesn't it seem like a hundred years ago when we had all those dreams?
Langston: No, not to me it doesn't.


[Langston is surprised that Starr wants to be tested as a bone marrow donor for Shane]
Langston: Starr, your mom's in critical condition. Most people wouldn't even think about being a bone marrow donor at a time like that.
Starr: It saved my life when I was little, Langston. You have to pay it forward, no matter what.


Starr: (to Langston) I don't know how you do it. No matter what's going on, you always make me laugh.


Langston: I'd say that you, Mr. Joplin, Cole, Matthew pretty much have a four-way tie for the most buzz.
Starr: Matthew? Those kids are still making fun of him? I swear, I am going to go over there and kick all of their asses.
Langston: I knew there was a reason I missed you.


Starr: Why are you asking me all of these things anyway?
Langston: I'm just trying to understand you.
Starr: So you can tell me how wrong I am?
Langston: So I can be on your side.


Starr: Go ahead, call me stupid. Say that I need a reality check. Just say that I'm just like every other little high school girl having a crush on her teacher. Go ahead, say it.
Langston: Starr, don't you know by now that I'm always on your side, no matter what?


Starr: I cannot believe they make special holders for condoms.
Langston: Well, that's the French for you.


Langston: Were you nervous with Cole?
Starr: It wasn't exactly the same. Cole and I didn't know what we were doing.
Langston: But maybe that's the problem. This is so not spontaneous.
Starr: Come here. It's better off that way. You won't mess up like Cole and I did.
Langston: Is it still romantic this way?
Starr: Yes, because you're doing it because you love each other, right? It's what love is all about.


Starr: Langston, tonight is going to be fine. Actually, it's going to be perfect, and you are never going to forget it.
Langston: I love you.
Starr: I love you, too.


[Starr has learned that Hope is alive after all]
Langston: Your baby's alive.
Starr: I know, I -- she's going to have a future. She's going to become a little girl and then she's going to become a teenager and I'm going to know her. Can you believe that? I'm going to be able to see the type of person she turns into.


[Starr worries because Hope is still missing]
Langston: Do you want me to leave you alone?
Starr: God, no. No -- God, no. You're actually the only person that I want to see right now.


[Langston worries because Starr is planning to marry Cole]
Langston: Your whole life is going to change, and that means you and me will never be the same.
Starr: Nothing is going to change with you and me.
Langston: So you're still going to jump out of bed and come running down the hallway in the middle of the night to tell me your problems?
Starr: Why not?
Langston: Um, I don't know, maybe because you're married.
Starr: Langston, my husband's going to prison and I'm going to be scared and I'm going to miss Cole and what about when the baby keeps fussing and I haven't finished my pre-calc? Like, I'm going to need your help, and you'd better be there for me, all right?


Langston: (about Markko) I mean, we had sex one time, and this is what happens.
Starr: Uh, no. (indicating Hope) This little girl is what happens after having S-E-X one time.


Langston: Do you know how long it's been since Markko and I have been together? 2 months.
Starr: Try waiting a year and a half, and then talk to me.


Langston: Imagine you're Markko. Your parents throw you out, cut you off, and you get thrown in a house where people drink tea and have lunch at the country club.
Starr: That's what everyone in our house does.


Langston: You can't just drop out of school.
Starr: So I'm supposed to take notes while someone else is taking care of my baby?
Langston: Um, yeah.
Starr: What? I've already missed out on so much of Hope's life already.
Langston: So you're gonna miss out on the rest of yours instead?


Langston: Hello, Hopie. How's my girl?
Starr: Do not call her Hopie. Cole hates that.
Langston: Well, we like it, don't we, Hopie?


[Langston and Starr tease an anti-gay marriage protester by pretending to be a couple]
Langston: I've always wanted to be Mrs. Starr Manning.
Starr: Oh, honey, you didn't tell me you were taking my name.
Langston: Of course, babe.


Langston: (to Markko and Cole) It's so cool you guys get to vote.
Starr: Are you kidding? I'm so glad that I can't vote. With both of my aunts running against each other, I can't win.


Markko: "Dorian's Road to City Hall."
Starr: You're making a movie about Aunt Dorian?
Langston: He's trying to make up for not voting for her.


Langston: I mean, she's been mayor less than 24 hours and she gets arrested? She never even made it to City Hall. What's next?
Starr: Well, at least she'll have a quiet night, right?


Starr: Did Amelia get Dorian out of jail yet?
Langston: The bail hearing isn't until tomorrow morning. She has to spend the night.
Starr: It's not like she hasn't done it before.


Langston: Markko's boss from the reality show, Ford.
Starr: He's back?!
Langston: In the flesh. Well, not exactly the flesh. I've seen that, and that's kind of the problem.