You're not listening --
PARRISH
Oh yes, I am. Not an ounce of
excitement, not a whisper of a
thrill, this relationship has all
the passion of a pair of titmice.
SUSAN
Don't get dirty, Dad --
PARRISH
Well, it worries me. I want you
to get swept away. I want you to
levitate. I want you to sing with
rapture and dance like a dervish.
SUSAN
That's all?
PARRISH
Be deliriously happy. Or at least
leave yourself open to be.
SUSAN
'Be deliriously happy'. I'm going
to do my upmost --
He smiles.
PARRISH
I know it's a cornball thing but
love is passion, obsession, someone
you can't live without. If you
don't start with that, what are you
going to end up with? I say fall
head over heels. Find someone you
can love like crazy and who'll love
you the same way back. And how do
you find him? Forget your head and
listen to your heart. I'm not
hearing any heart.
(a moment)
Run the risk, if you get hurt, you'll
come back. Because, the truth is
there is no sense living your life
without this. To make the journey
and not fall deeply in love -- well,
you haven't lived a life at all.
You have to try. Because if you
haven't tried, you haven't lived.
SUSAN
Bravo.
PARRISH
Aw, you're tough.
SUSAN
I'm sorry. But give it to me again.
The short version.
PARRISH
Stay open. Who knows? Lightning
could strike.
Silence.
PARRISH (cont'd)
Forgive the lecture --
SUSAN
I won't. And when I tell Drew about
it, he won't either.
PARRISH
You won't tell him, and even if you
did, he'd clock it and punch it into
his laptop in order to pull out some
key phrases when he gives the
Commencement Speech at Wharton.
SUSAN
You're terrible.
PARRISH
I know. But I'm the only father
you've got.
She kisses him on the cheek.
SUSAN
Thank God.
PARRISH
He doesn't care. But thanks anyway.