- Cute Boy God: Remember me?
- Joan Girardi: Why all the familiar looks? Doing the greatest hits, or are you getting a little pleased with yourself?
- Cute Boy God: You see me the way you want to see me, Joan. Like right now, you're mad at me... maybe you feel safer being mad at me when I look like this.
- Joan Girardi: You have a lot to answer for, buddy! No one asks to be born!... So we all get to die, and then everyone we love dies?
- Cute Boy God: Yeah.
- Joan Girardi: And... and that's good for you?
- Cute Boy God: Joan, there's nothing about death that I can say that would make sense to you.
- Joan Girardi: A lot of what happens here really sucks, so much for your... perfect system... Can you see me being really mad at you right now?
- Cute Boy God: Yes.
- Joan Girardi: Why does it have to be so hard?
- Cute Boy God: What specifically?
- Joan Girardi: Being alive, let's start there.
- Cute Boy God: You wish you weren't alive?
- Joan Girardi: No! I... I don't know. I wish... it didn't... hurt so much.
- Cute Boy God: It hurts because you feel it, Joan... because you're alive. You love people, that generates a lot of power, a lot of energy. The same kind of energy that binds atoms together, we've all seen what happens when you try to pry them apart.
- Joan Girardi: So, if I don't get attached to people then... it won't hurt so much?
- Cute Boy God: No, it's in your nature to get attached to people, I put that in the recipe. It's when you guys try to ignore that... when you try to go it alone, that's when it gets ugly. It's hell.
- Cute Boy God: It's Hell? Like the Hell?
- Gavin Price: And what career would you like to explore, Mr Rove?
- Adam: I wanna to do something soulless and corporate, Mr. Price.
- Gavin Price: Good choice.
- Luke Girardi: [the family can't decide on a movie to watch] You know, i-it's becoming increasingly obvious that the only thing we have in common is DNA.
- Helen Girardi: Kevin! Luke! Dinner!
- Will Girardi: No Joan?
- Helen Girardi: No. She's, um... she's babysitting. Her latest enterprise. Do you think she's saving up for a tattoo or something?
- Will Girardi: Nothing would surprise me.
- Joan Girardi: Why can't they make homeroom at a reasonable time? I mean, you're the chief of police. Can't you take care of it?
- Will Girardi: [sarcastic] It's on the top of my list: investigate public school schedules.
- Joan Girardi: [seeing a news report about Will's police brutality case] Whoa. Dad, you're not in trouble over this, are you?
- Will Girardi: I'm the chief of police. It's my job to be in trouble.
- Will Girardi: What you reading?
- [Helen shows him "On Death and Dying"]
- Will Girardi: Why?
- Helen Girardi: Because... for me, sometimes, it's like... Kevin died, and I need to deal with that.
- Will Girardi: Helen...
- Helen Girardi: I know. I'm the one... who's always preaching... gratitude and moving on, and I was clinging to that so hard, and then it... it stopped working for me. I felt alone, and... I, um... I talked to a priest. I didn't want to bother you.
- Will Girardi: That was the deal we made a long time ago. You get to bother me. You don't have to do anything alone.
- Helen Girardi: I'm sorry I lied to you about the priest. That's... who I met on my lunch break.
- Will Girardi: You come to me, not some stranger. Promise me.
- Sylvia Tardio: He was up, wasn't he?
- Joan Girardi: Yeah, he was. I-I'm a... I'm a bad disciplinarian.
- Sylvia Tardio: It's okay, 'cause I'm in a good mood. I passed my latest exam - whoo! - and I just found out that my babysitter is coming back to town. Apparently, Hawaii was too humid for her hair.
- Joan Girardi: Oh. Okay.
- Sylvia Tardio: Yeah, so tomorrow will be your last day with Rocky.
- Joan Girardi: Oh.
- Sylvia Tardio: You went and got attached to him, didn't you? He has that way with people.
- Will Girardi: Do you have a take on this?
- Lt. Det. Toni Williams: Well, I'm working it out right beside you.
- Will Girardi: And Koczara?
- Lt. Det. Toni Williams: Not my favorite. The odd offensive remark now and then, when he's been drinking. Across the board, though, he doesn't single out any particular brand.
- Will Girardi: And yet you can't really look at me when you say that. I could benefit from your candor, Detective. And don't worry about the blue wall. Everything stays right here.
- Lt. Det. Toni Williams: The guy's a racist. In my opinion, he was looking for an excuse.