Alex: [aside to camera] Mom obviously wants me to take this big corporate job offer I got, but they're all so corrupt and mercenary. I want to use science to improve the world, like I did in Antarctica.
[flashback:]
Alex: [to a penguin] Back off, you disgusting snow chicken! Do not [bleep] with me!

Haley: I love that movie, too!
Max: Yeah, that cool fight scene on that skyscraper in Shanghai, it really made me want to go to Japan.
Alex: Why? Shanghai's in China. I'm just saying, you don't want to fly to Japan, get in a cab and say, "Take me to downtown Shanghai. It's a pretty expensive ride." [laughs]

Haley: Whoa. You're being a little-
Alex: Obstreperous?! Recalcitrant?! Truculent?!
Haley: I was gonna say "cray-cray."
Claire: Alex, sweet-
Alex: I really need to focus! There is a 16-year-old science prodigy studying cancer research at Johns Hopkins! Sixteen! What am I doing? I'm eating cake! Cake! Cake! Cake!

Dr. Clark: So, your siblings, they don't experience the same pressures you do.
Alex: Oh, God, no. They don't care about school.
Dr. Clark: Hmm. Why do you think that is? I mean, you all grew up in the same house with the same parents, yet you're the only one who feels this enormous pressure to achieve at such a high level.
Alex: Why do we even have to talk about my family? They don't have anything to do with this. They don't get me.
Dr. Clark: How's that feel?
Alex: I don't know.
Dr. Clark: You're a smart girl. Try a little harder.
Alex: I said I don't know. [sighs] I feel... Kind of alone.