Lorelai: So, apparently, I am now the reigning Lorelai.
Rory: Huh. I guess you are.
Lorelai: It's a lot of responsibility.
Rory: Well, sure.
Lorelai: I mean, it's mostly ceremonial stuff nowadays - declaring knighthoods, opening supermarkets - but now and then, you get to banish someone or pose for a stamp.
Rory: Neat. And coins.
Lorelai: Yeah and coins. You know, someday you'll be the reigning Lorelai.
Rory: I don't like that idea.
Lorelai: Why not? You get a cape.
Rory: Because if I'm the reigning Lorelai, that means you'll be gone.
Lorelai: Gone? No, not me. I'll step down way before that. I'm not gonna pull a Queen Elizabeth on you, make you wait around forever, force you to develop interests in polo and architecture.
Rory: I am scared of horses.
Lorelai: I know that.
Rory: So, there's a cape, huh?

Kirk: Oh, I can tell you what they're saying.
Lorelai: How?
Kirk: I read lips. My girlfriend taught me. It's so we can have quiet time and keep the conversation going at the same time. Okay, she just said, "Hardwood sponge is the authority of the hostile biographer." And then he responded, "Just phone cords to original samovars."
Lorelai: Kirk, that doesn't make any sense.
Kirk: Must mean they're on to us and they've switched to some sort of code.
Lorelai: I don't think they're speaking in code.
Kirk: Oh, I think Luke's heading back. He just got up and said, "Feel your taters."
Lorelai: Is it possible he said, "I'll see you later?"
Kirk: No, I'm pretty sure about this one.

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.