- [first lines]
- Lorelai: Please, Luke. Please, please, please!
- Luke Danes: How many cups have you had this morning?
- Lorelai: None.
- Luke Danes: Plus?
- Lorelai: Five, but yours is better.
- Luke Danes: You have a problem.
- Lorelai: Yes, I do.
- [Luke fills her cup]
- Luke Danes: Junkie.
- Lorelai: Angel. You've got wings, baby.
- Lorelai: You really like my table, don't you?
- Joey: I was just... uh
- Lorelai: Getting to know my daughter.
- Joey: Your...
- Rory: Are you my new daddy?
- Joey: Wow. You do not look old enough to have a daughter. No, I mean it. And-and-and you do not look like a daughter.
- Lorelai: That's possibly very sweet of you. Thanks.
- Joey: So. Daughter. You know, I am traveling with a friend.
- Lorelai: She's sixteen.
- Joey: Bye.
- Lorelai: So who is he?
- Rory: There's no guy.
- Lorelai: Dark hair, romantic eyes, looks a little dangerous?
- Rory: This conversation is over.
- Lorelai: Tattoos are good too.
- Rory: I don't wanna change school because of all the reasons I've already told you a thousand times. If you don't wanna believe me, that's fine. Goodnight.
- Lorelai: Does he have a motorcycle? 'Cause if you're gonna throw your life away he'd better have a motorcycle!
- Lorelai: [Michel is ignoring the phone] Michel, the phone.
- Michel: Mmm-hmm. It rings.
- Lorelai: Can you answer it?
- Michel: No, people are particularly stupid today. I can't talk to anymore of them.
- Lorelai: You know who's really nice to talk to? The people at the unemployment agency.
- Michel: [He pickes up the phone] Independence Inn, Michel speaking.
- [pause]
- Michel: No, I'm sorry, we're completely booked.
- Dean: So, how are you liking Moby Dick?
- Rory: Oh, it's really good.
- Dean: Yeah?
- Rory: Yeah, it's my first Melville.
- Dean: Cool.
- Rory: I mean, I know it's kind of cliché to pick Moby Dick as your first Melville but... Hey, how did you know I was reading Moby Dick?
- Dean: Uh, well, I've been watching you.
- Rory: Watching me?
- Dean: I mean, not in a creepy, like, "I'm watching you" sort of way. I just - I've noticed you.
- Rory: Me?
- Dean: Yeah.
- Rory: When?
- Dean: Every day. After school you come out and you sit under that tree there and you read. Last week it was Madame Bovary. This week it's Moby Dick.
- Rory: But why would you...
- Dean: Because you're nice to look at, and because you've got unbelievable concentration.
- Rory: What?
- Dean: Last Friday these two guys were tossing around a ball and one guy nailed the other right in the face. I mean, it was a mess, blood everywhere, the nurse came out, the place was in chaos, his girlfriend was all freaking out, and you just sat there and read. I mean, you never even looked up. I thought, "I have never seen anyone read so intensely before in my entire life. I have to meet that girl."
- Rory: Maybe I just didn't look up because I'm unbelievably self-centered.
- Dean: Maybe, but I doubt it.
- Lorelai: What do you need? Hot tea, coffee?
- Rory: Lip gloss.
- Lorelai: Aha.
- [Opens her purse]
- Lorelai: I have vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, and toasted marshmallow.
- Rory: Anything in there not resembling a breakfast cereal?
- Lorelai: Yes.
- [pulls out another bag]
- Lorelai: It has no smell but it changes colors with your mood.
- Emily: You took that girl and completely shut us out of your life.
- Lorelai: You wanted to control me.
- Emily: You were still a child.
- Lorelai: I stopped being a child the minute the strip turned pink, okay? I had to figure out how to live. I found a good job.
- Emily: As a maid. With all your brains and talent.
- Lorelai: I worked my way up. I run the place now. I built a life on my own with no help from anyone.
- Emily: Yes, and think of where you would have been if you'd accepted a little help, hmm? And where Rory would have been. But no, you were always too proud to accept anything from anyone.
- Lorelai: Well, I wasn't too proud to come here to you two begging for money for my kid's school, was I?
- Emily: No, you certainly weren't. But you're too proud to let her know where you got it from, aren't you? Well, fine, you have your precious pride and I have my weekly dinners. Isn't that nice? We both win.