- Deke Simmons: Why come to a little place like Jodie when there's plenty of teaching jobs in Dallas?
- Jake Epping: I didn't really take to the city.
- Deke Simmons: Well it is a shit hole, all right.
- [to Jake]
- Sadie Dunhill: You left me alone with 200 kids. It was embarrassing, and I practically broke my back trying to put all those chairs away