- Prairie Johnson: It's hard to understand how confusing freedom is when you've been a prisoner for so long, how hard it is to grasp that you have choice, that you can act; how unimaginable the sun is if you've been living underground for years.
- [last lines]
- Prairie Johnson: Do you see now? How we're going to save them? I'm gonna teach you the movements. All five of them. We're gonna open a tunnel into another dimension. I will travel there and rescue them.
- Renata: I don't look in the beginning, but at the end, I take in the crowd. It's like sleeping with a stranger and then asking their name on the way out the door.
- Dr. Hunter Hap: To validate the intimacy.
- Renata: Or to invalidate it.
- Principal Gilchrist: [to French about Steve, Jesse, Buck, and Mrs. Allen] I sort of pride myself on my high school anthropology. But for the life of me I can't imagine what the five of you have in common.
- Dr. Hunter Hap: I have a plane, and I can guarantee you safe passage to America in exchange for limited participation in my study.
- Renata: I don't want to be examined. I prefer to remain unknown, even to myself.
- Dr. Hunter Hap: The mind is a sticky thing.