- Amanda Lane: You know Jane, if you try to hold a butterfly in your hand, it will die. You must set it free and let it fly. If it comes back to you it was, truly yours. And if it doesn't, it never was.
- Jane: What if we tear off its precious little wings?
- Helen Barksdale Morgendorffer: [Jane jogs past Helen, who is power-walking] Jane!
- Jane: Oh, hi, Mrs. Morgendorffer. Didn't see you there.
- Helen Barksdale Morgendorffer: It's okay. Speed-walkers have thick skins. Jane, since you're staying with us and all, I thought... well, you're Daria's best friend, and she's, she's so hard to talk to these days...
- Jane: Maximum of three questions. No betrayals. Immunity from prosecution.
- Helen Barksdale Morgendorffer: Agreed. Drugs?
- Jane: Nope, unless you count TV.
- Helen Barksdale Morgendorffer: Depressed?
- Jane: No, just realistic.
- Helen Barksdale Morgendorffer: Sex?
- [Jane just looks at her]
- Helen Barksdale Morgendorffer: Oh, that's too obvious. Can I have another one?
- Jake Morgendorffer: Say, uh, Jane... I know you're Daria's best friend and... well, she's so hard to talk to these days. I was wondering...
- Jane: Maximum of three questions. No betrayals. Immunity from prosecution. And, uh, talk your wife into finding a new speed-walking route.
- Jake Morgendorffer: Done! Age?
- Jane: 17.
- Jake Morgendorffer: Uh... height?
- Jane: Five foot two.
- Jake Morgendorffer: Favorite color?
- Jane, Jake Morgendorffer: Black.
- Jake Morgendorffer: Oh, that's too obvious. Can I have another one?
- Daria Morgendorffer: [Daria, trying to imagine her future, comes home to an out-of-shape Trent] Trent, honey, I'm home!
- Trent Lane: Hey.
- Daria Morgendorffer: Good day?
- Trent Lane: Not much happened.
- Daria Morgendorffer: Don't worry, Trent. I'm sure Mystik Spiral is on the brink of success...
- Trent Lane: We really should change the name.
- Daria Morgendorffer: ...and I don't mind working double shifts at the gene splicing lab until you make it.
- Trent Lane: Face it, Daria, we're never going to get our big break. I gotta get a real job. Um, I'll need some money to get my tattoo removed.
- Daria Morgendorffer: Honey, we have to save right now. Trent Junior needs glasses. Thick ones.
- Trent Lane: Don't you understand? Every time I look at this stupid tattoo, it reminds me how I've wasted my life. But I'm not giving up. I'm determined to lie here on the couch until things turn around.
- Daria Morgendorffer: Oh, Trent. Whatever happened to the man I married?
- Trent Lane: We never got married, remember? I overslept.
- Jake Morgendorffer: [the doorbell rings] Quinn, your date is here!
- [Trent's goth girlfriend, Monique, is at the door]
- Jake Morgendorffer: Wow, I really *don't* know my kids!
- Trent Lane: Umm... there were some phone messages I almost forgot about.
- [Refers to writing on hand]
- Trent Lane: Let's see... Penny's coming in from Costa Rica. Some kind of problem with a volcano, and dad's finished taking pictures of Celtic rock formations. He's on his way back to print.
- Jane: What's that written on your other hand?
- Trent Lane: ..."Change name of Mystic Spyral to Something Something Explosion."
- Wind Lane: Who could that be?
- [opens door and sees Penny Lane]
- Wind Lane: Sis!
- Penny Lane: Claudia threw you out.
- Wind Lane: Haha, yeah. But that was years ago. I think you mean Katie.
- [starts crying]
- Sick, Sad World Announcer: Is your toll collector wearing pants, a skirt, or nothing but a smile? Cold breeze on the interstate next, on Sick, Sad World!
- Jane: [Daria opens the door to see Jane with a suitcase and a paint easel] I'm not picky. The manger will be fine.
- Trent Lane: I'm sorry I broke the rules. We don't really have any rules at our house, right Janey?
- Jane: Well, there's that one about not building a fire in the rooms that don't have fire places.
- Trent Lane: You know, I once lived in a tent in the yard for 6 months, waiting for someone to invite me back in the house...
- Wind Lane: Some things can't be saved, like my marriage
- [Dissolves into tears]
- Wind Lane: .
- Penny Lane: It's okay, Wind. It's for the best.
- Wind Lane: Really?
- Penny Lane: Believe me, you're MUCH better off.
- Wind Lane: What's that suppose to mean?
- Summer Lane: [Condescendingly] Yeah, what do YOU know about marriage?
- Penny Lane: Well, I can't say I've had as much experience as either of you in failing at it!
- Helen Barksdale Morgendorffer: Jake, do you ever worry that our children are becoming strangers to us?
- Jake Morgendorffer: Stranger than us? What's so strange about us?
- Helen Barksdale Morgendorffer: I try and try to keep the channels of communication open. What more can I do?
- Jake Morgendorffer: Look under the mattress for a diary? I mean... by accident, of course.
- Helen Barksdale Morgendorffer: Honestly, Jake. Sometimes I wonder if you know even the most rudimentary facts about our girls. How old is Quinn?
- Jake Morgendorffer: Uh... 11... ish? That was a guesstimate.
- Helen Barksdale Morgendorffer: Jake, what's my middle name?
- Jake Morgendorffer: [Long silence] ... It's got a... K, right?
- Trent Lane: Has anyone seen Jane?
- Vincent Lane: She was just standing there a few minutes... uhh... days ago.