Lorelai: Tell me what college you finally landed on.
Paris: I didn't.
Lorelai: What's it between?
Paris: Princeton, Columbia, and Yale.
Lorelai: Good choices.
Paris: I'm really not that interested in Columbia, but the thought of me going there horrifies my mother so I have to keep it in the mix, you know?
Lorelai: Do I ever.

Paris: Princeton's a good school, but Jamie goes there.
Lorelai: That's your boyfriend?
Paris: Yes. He goes there, and if I go there, it's going to look like I went there just to be with him. Suddenly I'm Felicity without the hair issues and I'm not terribly comfortable with that.
Lorelai: But look at it like this not going to a school you wanna go to just because your boyfriend is there is just as bad as going to a school you don't wanna go to just because your boyfriend isn't there.
Paris: I guess.
Lorelai: If you wanna go to Princeton, go to Princeton. If you wanna go to Yale, go to Yale. Leave Jamie out of it. Leave your mother out of it. Just decide whatever it is you wanna do and do it.

Lorelai: Oh my God, she was like a thousand when I was ten, I can't believe it.

Emily: I don't have a dinnertime, Lorelai.
Lorelai: You don't have a dinnertime?
Emily: No, I don't.
Lorelai: So all the years I grew up in this house, we did not sit down to dinner at exactly seven o'clock every single night?
Emily: No.
Lorelai: I just imagined that?
Emily: Lorelai, I don't know what your obsession with dinnertime is.
Lorelai: My obsession with dinnertime is that it was always at seven o'clock, now all of a sudden, it's not. Is it because I'm here?
Emily: That's ridiculous.
Lorelai: It is. I'm here, and if you served dinner, Miss Manners would insist that you invite me to stay and you don't want to, so you're going to pretend that dinner is suddenly whenever you feel like it.

Richard: Emily, for heaven's sake, it's 7:10. Why aren't we eating?
Lorelai: Oh, hi, Dad. Listen, Rory was gonna stay for dinner if you guys don't have plans.
Richard: Of course we don't have any plans. Oh, I'm thrilled, Rory is staying. You just livened up a very boring night in the Gilmore house.
Lorelai: Enjoy your dinner. And Mom, get yourself an agent 'cause you're wasting that talent of yours in dinner theater.

Lorelai: I just, I finally realized that I can't do this anymore. I can't come back here anymore, I'm done.
Rory: I'm sorry. I never should've asked you to pick me up.
Lorelai: It's okay. It's good, actually. Now I can stop feeling guilty for not talking to them. I can go back to the way things were before. We share a nose and that's it.

Emily: Are you staying?
Rory: No, I have to go, Grandma.
Emily: All right, I guess we'll just see you at graduation then.
Rory: I guess you will.
Emily: I swear, I don't know what to do with that mother of yours, I really don't. Everything has to be such a scene.
Rory: I think you're being really stupid. [exits]

Rory: Do you think Luke will know we went to Souplantation?
Lorelai: Not unless you tell him.
Rory: But maybe he'll be able to tell. They'll be a glow.
Lorelai: [gasps] An all-you-can-eat glow.
Rory: He'll see the glow, he'll know we cheated, and he'll never give us extra fries again.
Rory: Mom, why did just bolt away from us?
[As Luke looks up from sweeping the ground, he sees Lorelai and Rory in the car. He immediately dashes back into the cafe.]
Lorelai: Maybe he saw the glow.

Lorelai: Okay, first of all, I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner. I just thought with all the stuff you were doing, maybe I should wait.
Rory: What's going on?
Lorelai: Jess is gone.
Rory: Gone where?
Lorelai: I don't know. Luke knows, but he didn't tell me. But he doesn't seem to think he's coming back.
Rory: Neither do I.
Lorelai: Are you okay?
Rory: Yeah.

Jess: Raise me? I'm eighteen! I'm raised. I can vote, I can be drafted. It's a little late to throw me a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle birthday party.