Rory: I wonder if Grandpa is still in Akron?
Lorelai: Well, for Akron's sake, I hope he's moved on to Boise.

Emily: It's perfect. Don't you think? It turned out better than you thought.
Lorelai: Yeah.
Emily: Come on. Say a little more than that.
Lorelai: It's great, Mom. It's fabulous. It's just a notch below Rembrandt.
Emily: Well, you don't have to take that attitude.
Lorelai: What do you want from me? I'd light some sparklers and jump up and down, yelling "yay for the painting" but I'm fresh out of sparklers, and my feet hurt too much to jump. But I promise next week, when I have more energy, I'll write a love song for the chandelier!

Emily: You can be so harsh sometimes, and I just don't know where it comes from, or what I've done to deserve it.
Lorelai: You did nothing.
Emily: Well, I must have done something.
Lorelai: Oh, I've been... It's just been a bad week. Sookie and I were moving forward with plans to open our inn and we had a huge fight. We've never had a huge fight, let alone a fight. And awful things were said. And it started when Mia showed up for a visit and I told her about our plans. And she's talking about selling the Independence Inn, and it wigged me out. It's stupid. I don't know. But it was our home for so long, mine and Rory's. And it's just weird to think that it wouldn't be there and Mia wouldn't be there, and I wouldn't be there. And I just got very upset. Anyway, I'm rambling. The painting is really great. Will you accept my apology?
Emily: Yes. Yes, I will. I've had bad days, too.
Lorelai: Thank you.
Emily: Well, we should get back to Rory.

Luke: Okay, I'm pretty much done.
Lorelai: Thanks for doing this. I didn't want the rain to destroy your beautiful chuppah. And I looked and looked in the yellow pages, and I didn't see a chuppah waterproofer listing anywhere.

Luke: So, Sookie stopped at the diner this morning. I asked her how your plans were going at the new inn. She very awkwardly changed the subject to women's basketball. She's never shown much interest in sports before. What's going on with that?
Lorelai: Oh, well, you know, women's basketball is getting super popular. That's good, I think. The tall girls need an outlet.

Lorelai: How long till the diner got fun?
Luke: About a year.
Lorelai: Wow. And there's no button?
Lorelai: No.
Luke: How about a lever? Can I pull a lever?
Luke: No.
Lorelai: Turn a knob?
Luke: No.
Lorelai: You just jump?
Luke: You just jump.

Luke: Oh, and women's basketball is in season. You might want to run that news past Sookie. Maybe you can go to a game or something.
Lorelai: Yeah, or something.

Mia: I expected you to come eventually.
Emily: Did you? And what did you expect to say to me when I did come?
Mia: When Lorelai showed up on my porch that day with a tiny baby in her arms, I thought to myself: "What if this were my daughter and she was cold and scared and needed a place to live? What would I want for her?" And then I thought, "I'd want her to find somebody 'to take her in and make her safe and help her find her way."
Emily: That's funny. I would've wanted her to find someone who would send her home. I have to go. I'd appreciate if you didn't mention this to Lorelai.
Mia: I won't.
Emily: Do you have pictures? From back then?
Mia: I'll send you a boxful tomorrow.
Emily: Thank you.

Rory: Luke, where's my toast?
Luke: It's gonna take a while. My big toaster's broken, so I got stuck with just this dinky one. [Jess lowers the controls on the toaster] How did that happen?
Jess: You're gonna break that.
Luke: It was broken before.
Jess: Well, it must've got better.
Luke: Inanimate objects don't usually get better. Did you fix this?
Jess: Please.
Luke: Jess?
Jess: I have no idea what you're babbling about. I don't fix things.
Luke: But yesterday-
Jess: I've got school.