- [last lines]
- Adult Henry: [narrating] I spent half of my life worrying that my mother wouldn't be able to go out into the world on her own. But as it turned out, she wouldn't have to.
- Adele: For all the discussions of body parts and hormones, they forget to mention how it feels. There's another kind of hunger. The hunger for human touch. Desire. People never tell you about how it feels. The longing...
- Gerald: How about pal? Lacrosse? Soccer, maybe? Probably not football 'til you get a little meat on those bones, huh?
- Henry: Actually, I was thinking about signup up for the modern dance group.
- Gerald: Well, I'm not sure that would be such a good move.
- Marjorie: I know how your mother feels about dancing, but... people might get the wrong idea.
- Gerald: They might think that you're...
- Richard: They might think that you're gay.
- Marjorie: Richie!
- Henry: Or they might think that I like girls in tights.
- [first lines]
- Adult Henry: It was just the two of us after my father left. She said I should count the baby he had with his new wife Marjorie as part of my family too. Plus Richard, Marjorie's son. For the most part my mother never mentioned my father, or the woman he was married to now.
- Frank: If you're not up for this you need to let me know... Because tomorrow you're gonna say goodbye to everyone you've ever known... We're gonna hit the road and never look back. There's gonna be roadblocks and border crosses. So if you don't want this you need to tell me.
- Adele: No, I do want this.. more than almost anything I've ever wanted in my life.