• Rory: Kirk has very little in his life.
  • Lorelai: Uh huh.
  • Rory: He has no career, no girlfriend, no pet, no car. He lives with his mother, she won't even let him have his own key. The only thing he does have in his whole lonely pathetic existence is this marathon. If we win, if we take him down, if we take away that last little piece of dignity, then we leave him with nothing.
  • Lorelai: I wonder if he'll cry.






  • Lorelai: Can I ask you stupid questions?
  • Luke: There's no such thing.
  • Lorelai: How does ink come out of pens?
  • Luke: All right, there is such a thing.



❝ Just so many thoughts about my life then, my life now, what I missed. Thoughts about what I’ll never have, and what I want to have. ❞
— Lorelai Gilmore



Rory: She doesn’t know how to use her camera.

Lorelai: I’ve only had it six years.




  • Lorelai: So, what about dinner?
  • Rory: It should probably be something healthy since we've been eating junk the whole trip.
  • Lorelai: We had lettuce on our burgers last night.
  • Rory: You picked it off.
  • Lorelai: But it left its essence.
  • Rory: There was lettuce essence on our burgers?
  • Lorelai: Definitely.
  • Rory: And that satisfied our vegetable requirement?
  • Lorelai: For the week.
  • Rory: We can't argue with cold hard facts.