Jess: Please? You-you might get some ideas from your audience.
Nick: My audience is the men who built this great country. Your students would never understand that Pepperwood's just a New Orleans story about a guy fighting with the alligator within.

Nick: Guys! Pepperwood's about way more than just a romance. It's... it's, uh, it's about life, you know? Race. The sexualization of the American handgun.
Jess: [whispers] Keep it clean.
Nick: Okay. It's a story about his ambiguous relationship with... with justice.
Gertie: But the romance is amazing. It made me realize it doesn't matter if I'm straight or gay; I'm just me.
Nick: You got that from my book? That's-- yeah. That was positive. Do you think that's because of the gay dog character?
Gertie: Yeah.
Nick: What I really respect about that is it's never mentioned that he's a gay dog. But you got that from the writing. And that's pretty dope.

Nick: Wow. This is incredible. I mean, so many great ideas here. It feels like maybe The Pepperwood Chronicles
could be, like, a whole series.
Jess: Well, I mean, it's called The Pepperwood Chronicles, so I assumed there'd be more than one.

Jess: Nick, I have to get to school!
Nick: I know. So do I. I can't wait to pitch those girls my Pepperwood prequel. It opens with a very graphic description of his birth. It's like a dark Look Who's Talking.