- [Shirley asks Bo to roll up his sleeves and pants to check for burns]
- Francis Boris 'Bo' Sawchuk: You're not just weird. You're sick!
- Francis Boris 'Bo' Sawchuk: What's your problem?
- Shirley Holmes: How long have you been in a gang?
- Francis Boris 'Bo' Sawchuk: I'm not in a gang.
- Shirley Holmes: Then how come you have a tattoo?
- Shirley Holmes: If you studied my appearance, you'd know why I was late - the same way I know you've never been to a private school before, that you live on the Southside, you work cleaning fish and you're color blind.
- Francis Boris 'Bo' Sawchuk: Lucky guesses.
- Shirley Holmes: Observation. You keep tugging at your tie.
- Francis Boris 'Bo' Sawchuk: So?
- Shirley Holmes: Well, if you'd been to a private school before, a tie'd be like a second skin. Bus transfer in your pocket - Bus 9, Southbank. You're wearing one green sock and one blue and your skin has a slight residual odor of marine life.
- [admiring a portrait of Baker Street's most famous detective hanging in Shirley's room]
- Francis Boris 'Bo' Sawchuk: No way! It's Sherlock Holmes! Is he your...?
- Shirley Holmes: My great-great-uncle.
- Francis Boris 'Bo' Sawchuk: No wonder you're such a snoop.
- Francis Boris 'Bo' Sawchuk: So when's your wife coming back?
- Robert Holmes: My wife died three years ago.
- [Shirley and Bo are about to be trapped in a building the gang is about to burn]
- Shirley Holmes: [to Bo] Don't let the door...!
- [the only door to the room slams shut locking them inside]
- Shirley Holmes: ...close.
- [as the fire creeps closer to the room where she and Bo are held prisoner, Shirley desperately tries to pick the door lock]
- Shirley Holmes: No way they're going to turn us into crispy creatures!
- Francis Boris 'Bo' Sawchuk: It's critters.
- [after Shirley and Bo have escaped from the burning building]
- Francis Boris 'Bo' Sawchuk: You smell like smoke. I'd say your dad was barbequeing steak for supper. Not to mention you're full of soot from cleaning the chimney.
- [Bo plucks sawdust from Shirley's hair]
- Francis Boris 'Bo' Sawchuk: This was on the bottom of a hamster's cage.
- Shirley Holmes: You're catching on.
- [last lines]
- [Shirley is writing in her journal]
- Shirley Holmes: So the perpetrators were caught. Now, Bo can get back to more important things, like learning how to deal with Miss Stretmann. You'd like Bo, Mom. He fights for what he believes in, like you.