History TearJerker / NextToNormal

--> ''"The price of love is loss, but still we pay... we love anyway."''

* ''"The price of love is loss, but still we pay... we love anyway."''
** The fact that it's Dan and Diana singing is what really makes it gut-wrenching.

* More than half the damn show.

-->'''Diana''': I know the night is dying dear, I know the day will dawn...
-->'''Gabe and Diana''': The dancers may disappear, still the dance goes on.
-->'''Gabe''': And on...
-->'''Diana''': I'll wake alone tomorrow. The dream of our dance is through. But now until forever love, I'll live to dance with you. I'll dream, my love. I'll live, my love. And I'll [[spoiler: die to dance with]]...

-->'''Gabe''': There's a world, there's a world I know. A place we can go, where the pain will go away. There's a world when the sun shines each day...come with me ''(He extends his hand to Diana, which she grabs without hesitation and is led off by Gabe.)''
-->'''Dr Madden''': ''(As Gabe is leading Diana away and repeating "Come with me")'' Goodman, Diana. [[spoiler: Discovered unconscious at home. Multiple razor wounds to wrists and forearms. Self-inflicted. Sutures, gauze, antibiotics, sedated and restrained. Damn it!''(A beat)'' ECT is indicated.]]

** "He was a [[spoiler: baby when he died? I remember him older!]]"

-->'''Diana''': [[spoiler: ''(spoken)'' 17 years ago your brother died of an intestinal obstruction. He was 8 months old, the doctors missed it, your father and I didn't know anything. We were kids. Not much older than you.]] I'm so sorry we never talked about that. We wanted to give you a normal life, but I realize I have no clue what that is.
-->'''Natalie''': ''(singing)'' I don't need a life that's normal, that's way too far away, but something next to normal would be okay. Yeah something next to normal, that's the thing I'd like to try, close enough to normal to get by.

-->'''Diana''': I loved you once and though, you love me still, I know, it's time for me to go...I loved you once and though, [[spoiler: I love you still, I know, it's time for me to go. And so, goodbye.]]

--->'''Gabe''': But you've [[spoiler: always known who I am.]]
--->'''Dan''': [[spoiler: Gabe. Gabriel.]]
--->'''Gabe''': [[spoiler: Hi, Dad.]]

* Dan and Diana's conversation at last on the [[spoiler: death of Gabe]]:
---> '''Diana''': [[spoiler: How did he die?]]
---> '''Dan''': [[spoiler: He was sick.]]
---> '''Diana''': [[spoiler: With what? Why wasn't he treated?! What was wrong?!]]
---> '''Dan''': [[spoiler: ''[sings]'' Something the doctors all missed/The clinic, the ER, each specialist/They said, "Babies cry"/"Allergies, gas, who knows why?"/And I was a child/Raising a child/We stayed up all night/Most nights you just slept at his side/But still he just cried/And cried...]]

--->'''Dan''': Mine is just a slower suicide...

-->'''Dr. Fine''': Oh and one last thing - use may be fatal.

-->'''Diana''': I don't feel like myself. I don't feel like ''anything''.
-->'''Dr. Fine''': Patient stable.

* For more hard core fans, the line [[spoiler:"Hi, Dad",]] alone could make them start sobbing.

* For more hard core fans, the line [[spoiler:"Hi, Dad",]] alone could make them start sobbing.

---> '''Diana''': [[spoiler: How did he die? ...Why? (A beat) WHY?]]
---> '''Dan''': [[spoiler: Diana! We didn't know. He was sick, but even the doctors missed it and we took him to the clinic, the specialist, the ER in the middle of the night. They said he had food allergies, they said 'babies cry'. We stayed up every night, you slept in his room. He cried and cried.]]
---> '''Diana''': [[spoiler: Until one morning he stopped...]]