- Erin Castleton: But wouldn't you say that consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds?
- Alan: Well, actually, its "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." That's Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- Erin Castleton: [reading/quoting William Wordsworth, "The Prelude"] "When from our better selves we have too long Been parted by the hurrying world, and droop, Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, How gracious, how benign, is Solitude."
- Bookseller: [after Erin Castleton has dropped the book] : Don't close it. You should never close a book until you've read something from it.
- Erin Castleton: What?
- Bookseller: Well, just a sentence or a word. It can be very, very revealing. Just read something, anything. Well, read from the top, then.
- Andre de Silva: It was a pleasure having you care for me...
- Erin Castleton: You should have said it was a pain in the ass. An American would have.
- Cricket: Don't you just hate men?
- Erin Castleton: Oh God, I wish I did. That would make my life so much easier.
- Erin Castleton: Sean left me, Mom.
- Piper Castleton: No! And you let him?
- Erin Castleton: Did I have a choice?
- Piper Castleton: Dear, sweetness, light of my life - with men, you always have a choice.
- Personal Ad Respondent: I'm a temp. But that's not, like, a permanent thing.
- Andre de Silva: You like my country's music, right? I can tell there is a little bit of Brazil in you.
- Erin Castleton: Oh yeah?
- Andre de Silva: See, you are sad and happy. You don't smile but you are content. You are sad and happy at the same time. In Brazil we have a term for that - it's 'Saudade'. It's like ... melancholic, nostalgic; it's very Bossanova.