- Clark Kent: If Lana didn't wanna marry Lex, she wouldn't.
- Chloe Sullivan: Yeah, but Lana's not my hero, Clark - you are. And this whole idea that you haven't told her who you really are, that you are giving up the one person that you totally love...
- Clark Kent: I'm protecting her.
- Chloe Sullivan: Good job. She's marrying a monster and trapping herself into a loveless life.
- Clark Kent: Oh, you think this is easy for me?
- Chloe Sullivan: I think it's easier than getting hurt. Clark, you don't hesitate to run into a burning building or jump in front of a bullet because nothing can penetrate that iron flesh of yours. But the one time saving Lana means putting your heart on the line, the Man of Steel is nowhere to be found.
- Clark Kent: Letting Lana go was the hardest thing I've ever had to do, Chloe. If you don't know that, then you don't know me as well as I thought you did.
- Lionel Luthor: You know Clark's secret, don't you? I've been watching you since you've started seeing my son, and you've been getting closer and closer to finding out the shocking truth about Clark Kent. What a surprise it must have been to realize that Clark has kept up the deception for so long, right under your nose.
- Lana Lang: He was trying to protect me. And he's not going to let you threaten me now.
- Lionel Luthor: You think Clark's invincible. Not so. Like every hero, he has an Achilles' heel, a weakness. I know what it is. And I know that it could kill him.
- Lana Lang: No. You could never hurt him.
- Lionel Luthor: Would you bet Clark's life on that? I give you my word, Miss Lang, if you don't honor the promise that you made to my son or I find out that you have told anyone about this conversation, I will kill Clark Kent.
- Nell Potter: This may be the most important day of your life. What's wrong?
- Lana Lang: It's just... if there was something that you had to put past you to get on with your life, and you tried every way that was fair and honest to do that and nothing worked... is it really wrong to bend the rules just once?
- Lionel Luthor: Do you remember, when you were just a little boy, I'd bring you up here to the office?
- Lex Luthor: I used to pretend it was all mine to control, like I could just reach down and move all the cars, as if they were toys... pull all the strings and make people do what I wanted.