Luke: Anything I can do?
Lorelai: You know, there are very few times in my life when I find myself sitting around thinking, "I wish I was married," but today, I mean... I'm happy. You know? I like my life. I like my friends. I like my stuff. My time, my space, my TV.
Luke: Yeah, sure.
Lorelai: But every now and then, just for a moment, I wish I had a partner, someone to pick up the slack. Someone to, uh, wait for the cable guy, make me coffee in the morning, meet the stupid sink before it gets sent back to Canada. What happened? I just thought I had everything under control, but I didn't, and the inn is just falling apart. This has been my dream forever, and I have it, and it's here, and I'm failing. I can't handle it. I just spend every minute running around and working and thinking. And I thought I would have help, but Sookie has Davey, and Michel has Celine, and I'm... I can't do it all by myself. And I don't even have time to see my kid, and hell, forget see her, just even talk to her. And I miss her. And I sat there in my parents' house just listening to my grandmother basically call me a charity case, and I couldn't even argue with her. I couldn't even say anything, because I am. I'm running out of money, and I don't know what to do about it, and I was gonna, I was gonna ask you for $30,000 at dinner tonight. That's how pathetic I am.
Luke: Thirty thousand dollars. Well, okay, I mean if you...
Lorelai: I don't want to talk about it now. I don't want to think about it. [sobs] I'm failing. I'm failing.
Luke: You are not failing.
Lorelai: I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do.
Luke: It's okay.