Richard: [sobs] She was a saint. The woman was a saint.
Lorelai: Here, Dad.
Richard: I learned everything from that woman. "Life is a battle, and you either enter it armed or you surrender immediately." That is what she told me on my 10th birthday. I never forgot that. No, no one was as strong as that woman. That wonderful woman. That saint of a woman.
Lorelai: Oh, Dad.
Richard: Oh, I'm fine, I'm fine. I just have to deal with this... regret.
Lorelai: What regret? Dad, you and Gran were so close.
Richard: The last words we exchanged, we exchanged in anger.
Lorelai: Oh, but, Dad, that's-
Richard: I lost my temper and I was disrespectful. And that's the way... that's the way it ended. With an argument and hateful words.
Lorelai: Dad, you know, that was one little fight. I mean, one little fight between you and Gran doesn't wipe away years of...
Richard: That woman raised me and she taught me. And she took care of the family even after Father died. And I spoke her as if I owed her nothing, as if she was like anyone else in the world and not the saint of a woman that she was.
Lorelai: Oh, Dad.
Richard: You only have one set of parents, Lorelai. Remember that. I forgot and now I have to live with that for the rest of my life.