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"It's my mother's name,
too. She named me after herself. She was lying in the hospital thinking
about how men name boys after themselves all the time, you know, so why
couldn't women? She says her feminism just kind of took over. Though personally
I think a lot of Demerol also went into that decision. I never talk this
much."
- Rory exchanges names with Dean, "The Pilot"
"Every day. After school
you come out and you sit under that tree there and you read. Last week
it was Madame Bovary. This week it's Moby Dick."
"But why would you—"
"You're nice to look
at, and because you've got unbelievable concentration. Last Friday these
two guys were tossing around a ball and one guy nailed the other right
in the face. I mean, it was a mess, blood everywhere, the nurse came out,
the place was in chaos, his girlfriend was all freaking out, and you just
sat there and read. I mean, you never even looked up. I thought, 'I have
never seen anyone read so intensely before in my entire life. I have to
meet that girl'."
- Dean, explaining to Rory how he "noticed" her
"Are you my new daddy?"
- Rory, scaring off some unwanted attention for Lorelai, "The Pilot"
"I'm gonna be in a
Britney Spears video?"
- Rory, as she sees her Chilton uniform, "The Pilot"
"So tell me about the
guy. No, really, are you embarrassed to bring him home?"
"I'm not embarrassed."
"Does he talk at all?"
- Lorelai, teasing Rory for info about Dean, "The Pilot"
"Hi this is a message
for Rory. It’s Max Medina calling. I just wanted to say that I talked to
Headmaster Charleston or ‘il duce’ as he’s more affectionately know at
the Gilmore household, and he’s agreed to let you do some extra credit
work to help make up for the missed test today. Now I’m not sure what the
extra credit work is yet, but it probably will be time consuming and extremely
painful. It will however get you back up to where you rightfully belong
Rory, don’t lose heart. Make this work. And if you’re mother is listening,
Lorelai it was a pleasure encountering you. I hope it happens again. Anyways,
see you in class."
- Max's message to Rory, "The Deer Hunters"
"You like coffee? Can
we drink some together? A sort of pre-date. Very casual, no strings, no
obligations. We'll just see if it's even worth going down the road of including
food in the deal. Just coffee."
"I'm going to be in
town tomorrow because I take a class at Hartford State and there's a coffee
shop across the street that I sometimes, almost all the time, go to around
4:00 and usually exactly 4:12. I could not stop a person from entering
said establishment around that time, nor would I avoid them if I knew them
if they did."
- Max asks Lorelai out, "Cinnamon's Wake"
"This is a serious
problem. These Friday dinners are the only proper food that child eats
all week."
"Rory, are you in
any way malnourished or in need of some international relief organization
to recruit a celebrity to raise money on your account?"
- Emily and Richard are snowed in with Rory, "Love and War and Snow"
"At some point in your
life you're gonna have to decide that some guy is worth opening that front
door for. I am just volunteering."
- Max, volunteering to Lorelai, "Love and War and Snow"
"You are like a mythological
creature that casts some kind of spell on me and makes me act stupid. I'm
not stupid. I don't act stupid with anyone else."
- Max, trying to keep his distance from Lorelai
"It should be magical.
There should be music playing and romantic lighting and a subtle buildup
to the popping of the big question. There should be a thousand yellow daisies
and candles and a horse and I don't know what the horse is doing there
unless you're riding it, which seems a little over the top, but it should
be more than this."
- Lorelai describes to Max how a marriage proposal should be made
"What's going on?"
"Am I or am I not
the head man in charge of floral deliveries?"
"Yes, and one of the
few men I know who would proudly declare that fact."
...
"Daisies no less.
As if I would order these pitiful little things. Foul things, these daisies.
And just a notch up from weeds. And look how many. I mean, there must be
at least—"
"A thousand of them!
A thousand yellow daisies."
- Lorelai and Michel take delivery of a thousand yellow daisies, "Love,
Daisies and Troubadours"
"Where you gonna live?
...Hartford's probably good, closer to Rory's school... Of course, it is
a little far from the inn... But who knows how long you'll work after you're
married... Oh, but you probably already talked about that, right?"
"Uh, no, but I do
think he and my father have come to an agreement on how many goats I'm
worth."
"Hey, I'm just talking
here. It's great, really. You gonna have more kids?"
- Luke, catching Lorelai off guard when she tells him about Max's proposal,
"Sadie, Sadie"
"Honey, someday when
you're a little older you will be introduced to something that is extremely
seductive but fickle. A fair-weather friend who seems benign but packs
a wallop like a donkey kick, and that is the Long Island iced tea. The
Long Island iced tea makes you do things that you normally wouldn't do,
like lifting your skirt in public or calling someone you normally wouldn't
call at really weird times."
- a hungover Lorelai warns Rory, "Red Light on the Wedding Night"
"It's a long story.
I don't really wanna go into all the whats and whys and gory details right
now... and to figure out exactly what happened, you'd have to dig up Freud
himself and have him work on me full time."
- Lorelai, 'explaining' the Max situation to Sookie, "The Road Trip to
Harvard"
"You're the most confident
person I know. Obnoxiously so. You're good at what you do and you know
it."
"I'm good at doing
what I have to do. When I had to get a job, I got it. When I had to find
a house for us and a life for us, I got it. When I had to get Rory into
Chilton, I did it. But I don't have to leave the Independence Inn. I don't
have to go into business for myself."
- Luke and Lorelai, "The Ins and Outs of Inns"
"You sure you don't
want some tea? Tea usually makes things like this a little less awkward.
There's things to hold and stir."
- Mia, to Emily, "The Ins and Outs of Inns"
"I hate fighting with
friends."
"That's what enemies
are for."
"And God knows we
have our share of those."
- Rory and Lorelai, "The Ins and Outs of Inns"
"How often do you get
to see teenagers speak iambic pentameter and kill themselves?"
- Lorelai, going to see Chilton's "Romeo and Juliet" production, "Run Away,
Little Boy"
"He has had to watch
you go from one guy to another, and then the engagement, and then the engagement
was off, and patiently he's waited. And now in walks this kid and he says,
'My God, will she date anyone else in the world before she'll date me?'"
- Sookie, explaining Luke to Lorelai, "Run Away, Little Boy"
"I’m getting a little
creeped out here... This is a cold, cold family."
- Rory, as the family discuss future burial arrangements, "Richard in Stars
Hollow"
"How can I break up
with you? I’ve never been out with you."
"Well yeah, but that’s
what today was supposed to be, a date."
"A date where we need
a secret plan and a two-honk driveby and a decoy cousin?"
- Henry and Lane, "A Tisket, A Tasket"
"Why are you only nice
to me?"
- Rory, to Jess, "A Tisket, A Tasket"
"But my question is,
how did that happen? How was it that suddenly everyone in the world was
saying 'music has charms to soothe the savage beast' when it was written
breast."
- Lorelai, to Rory, "It Should've Been Lorelai"
"I'm gonna have to
drink a lot of coffee to keep up with you two."
- Sherry meets Lorelai and Rory, "It Should've Been Lorelai"
"Richard, you didn’t
even notice your own granddaughter isn’t here?"
"She’s so quiet she
sometimes slips in unnoticed. She should work for the CIA."
- Emily and Richard, as Rory misses dinner night, "It Should've Been Lorelai"
"I mean, we’re not
good friends but we’re friends. We’re friendly... Friendish might be a
better term."
- Rory, describing her friendishship with Jess to Lorelai, "Lost and Found"
"You seem to have a
very firm grasp of the English language. You put together several full
sentences, even using a couple of words that contain two or more syllables,
and then my mother appears and suddenly we need a thought bubble over your
head to understand what you’re thinking. Can you tell me why that is?"
"The verbal thing
comes and goes."
- Rory and Jess, "Lost and Found"
"I don't know what
anything means anymore. I mean, I can't even read my own handwriting. What
does this say? The person who wrote this should be dressed in a clown suit
stuffing bodies under their porch."
- Paris seeking help from Rory for the symptoms of overstudying, "There's
The Rub"
"We have not been waiting
forever."
"Godot was just here.
He said ‘I ain’t waiting for Richard,’ grabbed a roll, and left. It’s been
forever."
- Emily and Lorelai, at the dinner table, "Back in the Saddle Again"
"When we gather as
a family, we eat as a family. We don’t eat in shifts."
"You know, you’re
bound by the rules of the Geneva Convention, Mother, just like everyone
else."
- Emily and Lorelai, "Back in the Saddle Again"
"Someone’s not taking
to Elba too kindly."
"What does that mean?"
"Just that Rory’s
the leader of this group, Napoleon, and you’re not."
- Louise and Paris, "Back in the Saddle Again"
"I’m gonna need a picture
of this Jess so I don’t accidentally rip the head off the wrong kid 'cause
that would be bad."
- Christopher to Lorelai, "Teach Me Tonight"
"If we were gazelles,
we’d be the first ones eaten at the watering hole."
"Well, be thankful
we’re not gazelles. Now go take your shower. You’re starting to look like
you’re starring in an independent film."
- Rory and Lorelai, looking the worse for wear, "Help Wanted"
"He's not much of a
morning person... It takes him about an hour to become Jackson."
- Sookie, to Lorelai, "Lorelai's Graduation Day"
"Why'd you turn the
car off?"
"I’m just getting
the sense that I shouldn’t be driving a large vehicle when you tell me
this."
- Rory breaks some news to Lorelai, "Let The Games Begin"
"You sure you don’t
want a soda?"
"Yeah, I’m sure."
"Please let me get
you a soda. I gotta do something other than stand here like a moron."
- Jess and Rory, feeling awkward, "Let The Games Begin"
"Are you going to talk
to him?"
"I'll at least match
him grunt for grunt."
"Okay. Now, let’s
say he’s in the house and there’s a fire, and you can either save him or
your shoes – which is it?"
"That depends – did
he start the fire?"
- Rory and Lorelai discuss Jess, "Let The Games Begin"
"I'm so tired of fighting.
Or not even fighting because he won't fight. He just gets mad and disappears
and then comes back and I don't like how I feel and I don't like what I
do."
- Rory, about her relationship with Jess
"Dean started it...
He sucker punched me and I was just defending myself."
"Oh, apparently you
defended yourself all the way through the house and out into the front
yard. You defended yourself with a chair that is now broken. You defended
yourself with a coffee table."
- Jess and Luke 'recap' the fight
"Let me plant this
little thought in your head - you do or say anything to upset Jess and
make it harder for me to keep him on the right path, I'm gonna put your
head through a wall. Any wall, you can pick the wall, but it's gonna be
a wall, okay?"
- Luke, to Jimmy
"You know, when you
left home, were the cops after you?"
"No."
"No 'cause they shouldn't
be or no 'cause they haven't found the head yet?"
- Jimmy and Jess
"Oh my God, it's Audrey
Hepburn. You're Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina. Just a waif with eyes."
- Miss Celine greets Rory
"I made out a schedule.
Every single moment of every single day from now until graduation is accounted
for."
- Rory might be pushing herself too hard
"Now, did anyone ever
to tell you to picture the audience in their underwear? Well, don’t do
it. I did it once and I had nightmares for a week. Bulgarians in Speedos."
- Richard offers some pre-speech advice to Rory
"Rory, honey, do you
understand, the Gilmores do nothing altruistically. Strings are attached
to everything."
"There are no strings...
I just have to pay them back starting five years after I graduate, and
I have to start going back for Friday night dinners."
"Um, hello, Pinocchio,
those are strings."
- Lorelai and Rory, "Those Are Strings, Pinocchio"
"I live in two worlds.
One is a world of books. I've been a resident of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha
County, hunted the white whale aboard the Pequod, fought alongside Napoleon,
sailed a raft with Huck and Jim, committed absurdities with Ignatius J.
Reilly, rode a sad train with Anna Karenina, and strolled down Swann's
Way. It's a rewarding world, but my second one is by far superior. My second
one is populated with characters slightly less eccentric but supremely
real, made of flesh and bone, full of love, who are my ultimate inspiration
for everything."
- Rory's valedictorian speech, "Those Are Strings, Pinocchio"
"I humiliate myself
at least six times a year for this town, and just because I'm going to
Yale, that's not going to stop. Now the reason I am not the Ice Cream Queen
is because Taylor never asked me. I didn't know about it, and that's why
I was busy. Now I love this town, I will be back in that ridiculous pilgrim
outfit at Thanksgiving, so everybody just get off my back."
- Rory, addressing the town, "Ballrooms and Biscotti"
"Are you listening
to me? I can't leave. She won't let me leave ever. This is Iran in '79
and you are Jimmy Carter. What do we do?"
- Rory, taken hostage by Emily at a friday night dinner, "Ballrooms and
Biscotti"
"My mother - she was
here. I can feel it. Smell that? The room smells like guilt and Chanel
No. 5."
- Lorelai, sensing Emily in Rory's room, "The Hobbit, the Sofa and Digger
Stiles"
"My grandmother broke
into our room and furnished it..."
- Rory, updating her roommates on the new decor, "The Hobbit, the Sofa
and Digger Stiles"
"Hey, talk to a boy.
A boy will be nice to you."
- Sookie, as she and Lorelai search for Michel, "Chicken or Beef"
"I'm in the Navy now,
you know. My older cousins did two-year stints. It paid for their college
and stuff, so I joined up. Of course, we weren't fighting international
skirmishes on two or three dangerous fronts like we are now..."
- Kyle, 'designated driver' at Dean's bachelor bash, "Chicken or Beef"
"Stop doing that. Looking
at me. You're watching me watch the movie. It's creepy."
"I enjoy watching
people watch certain parts of certain movies."
"But you look over
just before something big happens, so I always know something's coming."
- Luke and Lorelai, at his first 'movie night', "The Fundamental Things
Apply"
"Dating. It's a horror."
"It's the only cure
for the singleness thing, barring ordering a spouse off the internet."
"If I had dated a
lot, I'd still be single. I'd just have spent a lot of bad nights at Tony
Roma's."
- Luke and Lorelai, "The Fundamental Things Apply"
"Talk to me about Jason."
"There's nothing to
talk about."
"Oh, come on. I'm
in a serious romantic dry spell. I need to live vicariously through somebody."
- Rory and Lorelai, "Ted Koppel's Big Night Out"
"I find nothing exciting
before eleven."
- Rory, not thrilled by the big game, "Ted Koppel's Big Night Out"
"The plural of cul-de-sac
is culs-de-sac? That doesn't even sound like English."
"That's because it's
French."
- Lorelai and Rory, discussing the finer points of grammar, "The Nanny
and the Professor"
"Now I know who Woody
Allen's next leading lady's gonna be."
- Lorelai finds out who Paris is dating, "The Nanny and the Professor"
"As we speak, I am
working on the perfect alibi. I've come up with lots of, you know, mid-afternoon
and evening alibis, but so far no 1:00 AM alibis... I'll come up with something.
My entire life has been a training session for this very event."
- Lane, preparing an escape plan for a gig, "In the Clamor and the Clangor"
"How about you taking
me to that place you're always talking about. What is it... Duke's?"
- Jason visits Stars Hollow, "A Family Matter"
"That had all the tact
of a Nazi storm trooper."
- Rory, after hearing Paris break up with a boyfriend, "A Family Matter"
"Man, I love e-mail.
Every day Rory and I write each other multiple times. It's great."
"You enjoy typing
to people more than talking to them?"
"Wrong perspective.
E-mail is a return to the romantic days of letter writing. It's pure Dickens."
- Lorelai and Luke, "Scene in a Mall"
"I have a gigantic
bottle of vodka at my place - the largest bottle of vodka known to man."
"But what will you
drink?"
"Gin."
- Jason and Lorelai, fleeing a disastrous family dinner, "Tick, tick, tick,
boom!"
"I'm fine. In a weird
way, my father trying to destroy me is the first time I've ever gotten
any real respect out of him."
- Jason, "Tick, tick, tick, boom!"
"I'm officially taking
the one hour I have off to go to the driving range to hit golf balls to
try to improve my sucky game, thereby redeeming myself in your father's
eyes."
"I like the use of
'sucky' and 'thereby' in the same sentence."
- Jason and Lorelai, "Afterboom"
"So, how's World War
III going?"
"Oh, you know, the
first boys off the boat were mowed down, but the next platoon is moving
in."
"Which means?"
"Jason's making the
lawsuit go away."
- Rory and Lorelai, "Afterboom"
"I was here to cover
the reading for the paper to go along with the review of the book. And
then I arrive only to realize that every single available girl at Yale
is here, including four of my reporters."
- Doyle, to Rory, as he covers an Asher Fleming reading, "Afterboom"
"I'm just saying that
I want to earn all of my grades. No matter how many 'wise, willful, and
wonderful women' I know."
- Rory, afraid she's being favoured by Professor Fleming, "Afterboom"
"Rory... right now
is the point in the horror movie where the entire audience is yelling,
'Don't go in there.'"
- Lorelai, bracing himself for a family dinner, "Afterboom"
The cats -- they know
that I've broken up with Jason and that I'm alone and they've decided it's
time for me to become a crazy cat lady... they can see it in my face. 'She's
single again. She couldn't make it work again. She picked the wrong guy
again.'
- Lorelai, attracting cats, "Luke Can See Her Face"
"Whose phone calls
or visits are never unwanted or too long? Do you see her face? Who would
you most like to have in your life to ward off moments of loneliness? Do
you see her face? When you travel, who would make your travels more enjoyable?
Do you see her face?"
- Luke's self help tape, "Luke Can See Her Face"
"Are you saying that
'sleeping with the zucchini' means..."
"Jackson's sleeping
with the zucchini... there's a potential cold front coming in from Canada."
...
"I'm so sorry, guys...
for freaking out about dumb things like zucchini and not realizing that
people would respond in very loving and nutty ways. This is not the way
to do this."
- Lorelai and Sookie, as the Inn takes over everyone's lives, "Luke Can
See Her Face"
"Rory, you've had quite
the dry spell this year."
"I have not had a
dry spell."
"There's not one picture
of you with a guy."
- Paris and Rory, "Last Week Fights, This Week Tights"
"Lesson number one
- when your mom or your grandmother starts trying to pin down your specific
whereabouts at a specific time and place, and she's smiling kind of weird,
begin evasive maneuvers immediately."
- Graham to Rory, "Last Week Fights, This Week Tights"
"At Lane's, two boys,
one with hair. And the place, broken furniture and dirt and boys and a
broken window and boys... and a tiny fridge and guitars and boys. She stood
in that room with two boys."
"Mrs. Kim, you know
why the boys were there? She was trying to be up front with you, and that's
good. She could have hid them from you, and she didn't. I've met those
boys. They're innocent. As innocent as if she was living with two girls.
So think of them that way... as two tall, gawky, caring, sometimes unwashed
girls who are watching out for your daughter's safety."
"Girls. Girls."
- Mrs. Kim and Lorelai, after Mrs. Kim visits Lane, "Last Week Fights,
This Week Tights"
"I'll see you...before
then, but I'll see you then, too."
"Yeah, I'll see you
both of those thens."
- Luke and Lorelai, looking forward to their 'date', "Last Week Fights,
This Week Tights"
"Did I lose?"
"Well, you have no
head, so probably."
"So this is what teenage
boys are doing instead of watching television? Seems like a lateral move."
- Rory and Lane, playing the boys' video console, "Raincoats and Recipes"
"You gave me space?
We broke up."
"I didn't look at
it that way. I looked at it as a cooling-off period."
"How very revisionist
of you."
- Lorelai and Jason, "Raincoats and Recipes"
"What are you doing?"
"Will you just stand
still?"
- Lorelai and Luke, on the porch of the Dragonfly, "Raincoats and Recipes"
"He's not a married
guy. He's Dean — *my* Dean."
"He's not your Dean.
He's Lindsay's Dean. You're the other woman."
"I told you, it's
over."
"It's not over until
he's out of the house with the ring off."
- Rory and Lorelai, "Raincoats and Recipes"
"Are you comfortable? Am I killing your arm?"
"My arm is fine."
"I could move."
"Don't you dare move."
"This right here, is the textbook definition
of a perfect moment."
- Rory and Dean, "Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller"
"You know what I think we need? A song. Like
a song that's 'our song'. Something romantic, but not mushy, something
that will make us remember this... Okay. Perfect. So, from now on, no matter
what you're doing, where you are, you'll stop and think of me when you
hear this—"
"That's not gonna be our song."
"Why not? It's perfect. It's happy. It's
hopeful. It has the word 'candy' in it."
- Rory and Dean, listening to "The Candy Man"
"I am going to Europe, and I'm going to have
a marvelous time. I'm going to get up at 10:00, and I'm going to have two
glasses of wine at lunch every single day."
"Only prostitutes have two glasses of wine
at lunch!"
- Emily and Richard
"That man is why mail-order brides were invented."
- Michel, describing Taylor
"It was a great kiss. If one of us had been
a frog, it would have had some seriously impressive consequences."
- Lorelai
"Once you get the hang of it, it's pretty
easy to duplicate...Why are you whispering?"
"Because I just think that no matter where
she is, my mom can hear this conversation."
- Rory and Lane
"What is this, a Henry James novel? The young
lady acts up, and her family ships her off to Europe?"
- Rory
"You're 19 now, remember? You're all grown
up, and you can handle your own affairs. Sorry. That's a bad choice of
words. You can handle your own life events."
- Lorelai to Rory
"It's me again. I'm not sure if we're at
the point in this relationship where you actually need to know that much
information about my whereabouts, so if we're not, I'm sorry. I could have
just said, "I'm going out of town, and I'll call you later." So I'm going
out of town, and I'll call you later."
- Luke, with a voicemail for Lorelai
"Just...don't change your mind until I get
back, okay?"
- Luke, to Lorelai
"Okay, I have got to know what was in that
letter."
"I told him that that night was special
and that I wasn't sorry that it happened. But he's married, and... he has
to figure out his life. So I was going to make it easier for him and take
myself out of the mix."
"Well, that was a very good letter."
- Lorelai and Rory, "A Messenger, Nothing More"
"I need to know if you think I'm in love
with Zach, because a dirty trollop suggested it, and they're generally
reliable about these things. She said something to me and gave me this
sort of knowing, worldly look that seemed to suggest I was acting in a
way that said I have a thing for Zach, or she was hitting on me."
- Lane to Rory
"This town—"
"—is our town. This town is so glamorous".
- Luke and Lorelai, watching the parade
"She gets very British when she's abroad...
and you look very innocent and pretty."
- Lorelai, transposing Emily and Rory's trip to Europe with "A Room with
a View"
"Those jeans are really working for you.
They're working for me, too... That's all I can do right now. People are
watching. But tonight I will give you my extremely positive views on other
aspects of your being."
- Luke, flirting in the diner with Lorelai, "Written in the Stars"
"So I'm looking at this piece of paper in
my hand, and under 'Scorpio,' she had written, 'you will meet an annoying
woman today. Give her coffee and she'll go away.' I gave her coffee."
- Luke, recalling his first ever encounter with Lorelai in the diner
"Lorelai, this thing we're doing here — me,
you — I just want you to know I'm in. I am all in."
- Luke to Lorelai
"A very serious matter has been brought to
our attention, and I would like to bring to the floor for discussion the
possible negative ramifications of the inn owner and diner owner dating.
Now, as you all know, the relationship we have feared for some time has
emerged, and we need to carefully consider whether or not we can support
this."
- Taylor, hosting a town meeting about Luke and Lorelai
"You're back with Farmer Boy? What gives?
I thought he was married... You're going to be bringing boys home now.
We need a system."
"I'm not bringing 'boys' home. I'm bringing
'boy' home. That boy — that's it."
"I mean, you look all small and squeaky,
but sometimes, it's exactly the bunny-looking girls who can blow the roof
off the barn. I know, just give me a three-minute warning."
- Paris and Rory, after Rory brings Dean home, "Tippicanoe and Taylor Too"
"There's a danger here."
"The roommate thing?"
"The band thing. Need I mention the rock
'n' roll casualties from intraband dating?"
- Lane and Rory, discussing Zach, "Tippicanoe and Taylor Too"
"If you need someone in charge of homeland
security, I am your man."
- Kirk to Jackson, after his victory, "Tippicanoe and Taylor Too"
"Actually, I've had a personal triumph of
late. I've just finished the sixth and final volume of 'The Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire'. I started it in 1968. So it took only, what?,
36 years to finish it. But by God, I finished it."
- Richard, "We Got Us A Pippi Virgin"
"He's not good enough for her."
"Well, who is? Jess?"
"No, not Jess. A prince, maybe. One that's
in line to be king. Not one of those waiting-for-a-brother-to-die ones,
but a real one. If not a prince, someone who's gonna be good for her. You
know, Rory is like Pippi. She can have adventures and be free, she's smart.
The whole world's waiting for her."
- Luke and Lorelai, "We Got Us A Pippi Virgin"
"Man, I hate those kind of guys — those privileged,
white males."
"Doyle, you’re a privileged white male."
"Well, he’s more privileged. And way more
whiter."
- Doyle and Rory, "Norman Mailer, I'm Pregnant!"
"They say absence makes the heart grow fonder."
"Yeah. Sex can do that also."
- Rory and Dean
"You’ll mess it up! You’ll mess everything
up! Because every time you come back, it always ends up the same way. Mom’s
crying and you’re not being there and I know it’s not your fault, I know
you don’t mean it to be that way, but that’s how it is."
- Rory, asking Christopher to stay away from Lorelai
"I've been testing people who have 'honk'
bumper stickers lately to see if they really want people to honk..."
"You need a hobby."
"Yes, actually."
- Lorelai and Emily, "You Jump, I Jump"
"I just thought up a great idea for a reality
show. You pull people over who have those 'honk if you love whatever' bumper
stickers, you kidnap them, and you make them do whatever the bumper sticker
says they like to do, whether they do it or not."
- Lorelai
"People can live a hundred years without
really living for a minute. You climb up here with me, it’s one less minute
you haven’t lived."
- Logan to Rory
"I sort of implied that I’m fond of the Greeks,
so I have to read the Iliad and the Odyssey so we can chat about it."
- Luke, getting in way over his head with Richard
"If it flew, swam or crawled on this earth
we just ate it."
- Lorelai, being over-fed at a friday night dinner, "The Party's Over"
"The party is very nice, Grandma. I was just
wondering, do your alumni friends have any daughters?"
- Rory, spotting a pattern at the party
"Lesson one in coping with painfully boring
parties: form a sub-party."
- Logan to Rory
"Tell me again why you're fasting for Ramadan?"
- Rory, trying to figure out Paris, "Emily Says Hello"
"You have boys bringing you food?"
"Yale is a magical place, Anna."
- Anna and Rory, "But Not as Cute as Pushkin"
"I have someone standing abnormally close
to me right now. I'll call you later?"
"Okay, say hi to Kirk for me."
- Lorelai and Rory
"You ever meet anyone you actually wanted
to date?"
"My bar is so not that high."
- Paris and Doyle, not impressed with speed dating
"I dropped by to tell you that I have spoken
to your father. We pounded out a few things. Property agreements, pre-nups,
that sort of thing. Now, we're setting up a dinner next week to finalize
the engagement and start talking about the ceremony."
- Richard, scaring the bejeesus out of Logan after his public display in
front of Rory
"I can’t believe you’ve never seen 'The Office'!
It’s brilliant. Especially the fourth time you see it."
"What happens the fourth time you see it?"
"You can actually understand what they’re
saying."
- Rory and Logan, getting to grips with British accents, "Come Home"
"Oh, here, I almost forgot your notes."
"Oh, I hope they helped."
"They did. Some guy tried to mug me earlier
and I beat him to death with them."
- Logan and Rory
"How the hell did you find something to buy
in my boat supply catalogue?"
- Luke, stunned by Lorelai's shopping ability, "Wedding Bell Blues"
"Is it okay if I come over tonight and work
on the boat a little?"
"With what? Sheer masculinity and some imaginary
sandpaper?"
- Luke
and
Lorelai
"Hold on, did you say 'Cop Rock' marathon?"
"Yeah, I got 'em all on tape. Trying to
figure out what you see in me?"
"Yep."
"Wait'll you see me in the boots."
- Luke and Lorelai
"I'm going to go change."
"Great. Come back as Thora Birch."
- Rory and Lorelai, getting ready for the wedding
"Who could not like being kissed by a Gilmore
girl? It was the greatest day of my life."
- Christopher, recalling his first kiss with Lorelai
"Are you ever going to ask me out? You flirt
with me. You act like you like me a little. You show up here, with a friend,
not a date. I mean, aren’t you? Ever? You do like me, right?"
- Rory to Logan
"You are beautiful. You are intelligent.
You are incredibly interesting. You’re definitely girlfriend material.
I, however, am definitely not boyfriend material. I can’t do commitment,
and I don’t want to pretend to you that I can."
- Logan to Rory
"I feel like I’m kissing a guy... And apparently
I had no idea what I was missing."
- Logan to Rory in her 'Bugsy Malone' suit
"You and me, we’re done."
- Lorelai to Emily
"There you are. I'd love to get a few more
shots in."
"Yeah, so would I."
- A photographer and Lorelai, not quite on the same page, "Say Something"
"We're fine. What is with these ribbons?"
"Pink for you, blue for Luke. Taylor's idea.
That way we all know whose side we're on without having to talk to each
other. He's a freak, but I like pink."
"Oh my God."
"Look out, blue incoming."
- Lorelai and Gypsy, as Taylor's plan for a Luke-Lorelai breakup kicks
in
"Not that I'm over it, but little by little
it's getting easier to pretend it's easier, which means easier must be
right around the corner."
- Lorelai
"He wanted to give me his side of the story."
"Oh, well. Unless his side of the story
includes having his long-lost evil twin lock him in the closet and come
to the wedding in his place, his side of the story doesn't exist... You
know, the more he defends himself, the more he needs to defend himself."
- Rory and Lorelai, discussing Christopher's antics at the wedding
"He’s your boyfriend, not mine."
"That has yet to be determined."
- Glenn and Paris, discussing Doyle
"I have to bring my own toilet paper over
there because it is a third world country!"
- Paris, not looking forward to visiting Doyle's place
Reading Is Sexy.
- Logo on Rory's Tshirt
"I don’t really want to watch 'Duck Soup'
right now, Rory. I really like Duck Soup, so I really don’t want to associate
it with this particular night."
- Marty, having a rough night
"It is my responsibility as your best friend
to make sure you go do exciting things even when you don’t want to."
- Sookie to Lorelai, "So... Good Talk"
"If he's that important to you, I should
probably, you know, meet him again, under different circumstances. Everything
all buttoned and zipped."
- Lorelai, discussing Logan with Rory
"It’s like having a perfect haircut every
single day."
- Lane, about her relationship with Zach
"I lined the path to the bedroom door with
rose petals? You had to have seen that!"
"I thought you tracked them in. You’re always
stepping in things, Zach."
- Zach and Lane
"If it was physically possible to make love
to a hot beverage, this would be the one."
- Lorelai likes mocha chocolate caramel swirls, "Pulp Friction"
"You go to the town meetings. You say hello
to people. You have a daughter that looks like she belongs on top of a
Christmas tree."
- Luke, on why Lorelai is more popular than he is
"You’re breaking up, the, the house is going
through a tunnel."
- Lorelai, ending a call to Rory
"And even if she didn’t like it or even if
she got mad, the worst that would happen is she would run into her room
and slam the door and blast 'The Jam'."
- Lorelai, on Rory reacted to her playing the 'Mom card'
"Your situation is no different from mine.
They want more than this. Don’t you see that? This town, it’s all you are,
and it’s not enough. She’s going to get bored, and you can’t take her anywhere.
You’re here forever."
- Dean, seeing parallels between Luke-Lorelai and Dean-Rory, "To Live and
Let Diorama"
"I'm a girlfriend girl, Logan. I have boyfriends,
not escorts."
- Rory, looking for more from Logan, "But I'm A Gilmore!"
"The ducks will be fine. They're lying in
a pan with their heads chopped off, so the worst part is behind them...
Oh, sorry. I see we've entered the no humor zone."
- Lorelai, trying to cope without Sookie
"Sookie's not going to be here, so let's
go to plan B."
"Okay, plan B. That involves Sookie's clone,
also named Sookie."
- Lorelai and Michel
"Five years of Friday night dinners have
prepared me for exactly this moment."
- Rory prepares for dinner at the Huntzbergers
"I’m a Gilmore! Do they know that? My ancestors
came over on the Mayflower! I had a coming out party! I went to Chilton,
and Yale."
- Rory, stunned by her treatment at the Huntzbergers
"Who cares why you got the opportunity? It’s
here, and life is about making the most of everything you’re handed. Well,
this is being handed to you. Now, what are you going to do about it?"
- Mitchum, offering Rory an internship
"The government says you should have nine
servings of fruit and vegetables per day."
"Imperialist propaganda."
- Emily and Lorelai, "Blame Booze and Melville"
"A dollar five. That’s my last offer."
"Do I look like E-bay?"
- Kirk and Luke, haggling
"How’s the article? What’s it say?"
"It was then, sadly, that I discovered Luke
could not read."
- Luke and Lorelai
"I know how to work the boss. At least a
little. I know he’s somewhere in the vicinity."
"Who, your dad?"
"Can’t you sense it? The flurry, the shuffle
of sycophants..."
- Logan and Rory
"She’s all checked in, breathing normally,
contracting painfully. The cursing should start any time now, everything’s
as it should be."
- Lorelai, from the maternity ward with Sookie
"I’ve always done what’s asked of me."
"See, the thing is, in the real world, it’s
not always good enough to do just what’s asked of you... I know this is
rough, but, I may have just done you a big favor."
- Rory and Mitchum
"You know the beginning of Moby Dick, when
the narrator says that when he finds himself growing grim about the mouth
and wanted to knock people’s hats off, he takes to the sea? Well I feel
like knocking people’s hats off."
"So I guess we got to take to the sea."
- Rory and Logan, looking for a yacht
"My God, those are good genes."
- Finn, finding out that Rory and Lorelai are related, "A House is not
a Home"
"Rory never even shoplifted. Not a candy
bar, not a lipstick. She forgot to return a library book once. And she
was so guilty about it that she grounded herself. I mean, can you imagine?
She’s
just sitting there in her bedroom yelling
at me, 'Now no one else got to read the Iliad this week because of me!'"
- Lorelai
"Dude, you keep nagging me, I’m going to
have to buy you a ring."
- Zach to Brian
"If this relationship thing is going to work,
then it goes both ways. You have to tell me why were committing a felony
before we do it."
- Logan to Rory
"According to my mother I am going to hell
for this. That’s commitment, my friends! Eternal damnation is what I’m
risking for my rock and roll!"
- Lane, trying to inspire the rest of the band
"You're going to kiss
me now? So incredibly predictable."
- Lorelai, to Luke
"I wonder how beer
tastes with ice cream in it."
- Rory, trying to be a slacker
"The code to the panic
room is [whispers] one, one, one, one, one. Don't write it down, and whatever
you do, don't tell the maids. They tell their children and then their children
grow up and rob you."
- Emily to Rory
"Aren't you worried
that one night you're going to sleepwalk right into that pool and drown?"
"I am now."
- Paris, alerting Rory to the dangers of pool house living
"You're pregnant? Sick?
Well, I know your National Guard unit didn't get called up, so what's the
story?"
- Paris, questioning Rory about returning to Yale
"Paris. Listen to me.
You are a very smart, driven young lady. You can be anything you want.
Except a diplomat. You don't need Rory to push you."
"Rory's my only friend.
She stays in the room until I'm completely done saying something. I need
that."
- Lorelai and Paris
"For she's a jolly
good felon, for she's a jolly good felon. For she's a jolly good felon!
Which nobody can deny!"
- Logan's gang toasts Rory
"I hope we picked the
right outfit here. It's coming off a little more Mennonite than I had hoped."
- Emily dressing Rory for court
"You working at the
Yale paper again?
"Yes, sir."
"Apple doesn't fall
far from the tree, does it?"
"Not if the tree has
anything to say about it."
- Richard questions Logan
"Lorelai, you scared
me half to death!"
"Yeah, well, follow-through
has always been my problem."
- Emily and Lorelai
"Hi, George. I'm just
trying to think of how to ask this in a polite way. Um, are you committing
some sort of crime?"
- Lorelai returns home to find workmen everywhere
" I told Rory we were
engaged."
"...Why! Why would
you do that?"
"Why? Because she
had the face! The Rory face! You know the face."
- Luke and Lorelai
"There's absolutely
nothing positive going on anywhere in the world. How could that be?
"That's why I don't
read the paper anymore."
"You will mine. I
am starting my own. The Good News Daily — nothing but good news every day.
'No civil war in Canada', big article. 'Cars drive down road without incident',
front-page news. 'Puppies', how cute are they?" In-depth exposé.
And the subscription is free. How happy is that?"
- Lorelai and Lane
"Impossible girl!"
"My native American
name, I believe."
- Richard and Lorelai
"My mom and I had been
planning for my twenty-first birthday... We were going to go to Atlantic
City and sit at a blackjack table at eleven fifty-nine, and we'd be playing
twenty-one when I turned twenty-one. We were going to drink martinis, and
win money, and go buy twenty-one things, and there was this thing including
twenty-one guys that would be totally inappropriate now that I'm with you."
- Rory, explaining her planned birthday to Logan
"What about Paris?
Are you two friends? I never really could tell."
- Emily, figuring out who to invite to Rory's party
"This tastes pink.
Really pink. It's really bad; it's like drinking My Little Pony."
- Luke tries a 'Rory' drink
"You know Rory, being
a young lady comes with many gifts. Your virtue, for example, is a gift,
a precious gift, possibly the most precious gift you possess. You want
to give this gift very carefully. It is a gift you can only give to one
man. Once you give it, it's gone. You can't re-gift it. If you give it
away too soon, to the wrong man, then when the right one does come along,
you will have no gift to give. You'll have to buy him a sweater."
- The Minister to Rory
"They never invited
their priest over to try and talk you out of having sex."
"Five times! And on
the last one, they triple-teamed with a priest, a rabbi, and a Mormon missionary.
I made so many jokes that night I should have had a microphone and a brick
wall behind me."
- Rory and Lorelai
"Oops. Evasive maneuver."
- Rory, avoding Emily
"What about that Vito
Morgenstern?"
- Luke, imagining who could play him in a film
"Jess, you've got such
a great brain. I knew that if you could just sit down and stop shaking
it around you could do something like this."
- Rory
"This isn't you! This!
You going out with this jerk, with the Porsche! We made fun of guys like
this."
- Jess to Rory
"So these are soccer
moms, huh? They seem very concerned with education and national security."
- Lorelai attends a soccer game
"You are becoming more
like your mother with every passing day."
"And you are becoming
more like my mother's mother with every passing day!"
- Emily and Rory
"When I wake up every
morning... I am at my most visually vulnerable."
- Lorelai
"Hey, she's small.
How much room can she take up, right?"
"Did she bring her
books?"
- Lane and Lorelai, discussing Rory
"It's no longer the
simple act of science being appreciated. There's got to be a twist, a gimmick.
Something flashy. I figure this is perfect. Real science, DNA testing,
with a flash of human drama."
- April, explaining her science project to Like
"We've actually got
a very sophisticated crime prevention system set up here. When we leave,
we always keep the radio on. Rush Limbaugh, of course, so they know we
have guns in the house."
- Paris, welcoming Rory to her apartment
"It's going to be a
great term, people. An important term. A term to change the history of
the Yale Daily News. The work will be hard. It has to be hard. Nothing
less than perfect will be tolerated. Please remember that I am your editor.
I am not your mother, or your hugger. If you need some love, get a hooker.
If you're having a bad day, find a ledge or way to deal. My door is not
open to you, ever. You have five minutes to enjoy your cookies. Welcome
to the Yale Daily News."
- Paris gives her welcome speech as editor
"Journalism is an art
form, and the best art is created under repression, like Stalin's Gulag."
- Paris, explaining her harsh approach
"I haven't freaked
out about Luke yet. Why haven't I freaked out about Luke yet? It's my pattern.
It's what I do. And then I started freaking out about the fact that I hadn't
freaked out."
- Lorelai, freaking out about the wedding
"I don't want to be
screaming at you at a bar. I can't take that. It's too much drama."
"Well, if you can't
take the drama, then you shouldn't even be in a relationship. Which, by
the way, you're not. So everything's good."
- Logan and Rory
"I left early today
and apparently that caused everyone's IQ to drop 60 points."
- Richard, being missed at work
"I appreciate the phone
call. I simply wish it had come before I called every person in the bursar's
office a moron."
"Well, if it'll make
you feel any better, you know, odds are at least two of them truly deserved
it."
- Richard and Lorelai
"Well, I think we've
officially reinstated Friday night dinner."
- Lorelai, after "Friday Night's Alright for Fighting"
"That secret meeting,
weeks ago at the pub, where you set the putsch in motion! What happened,
there wasn't a beer hall available?"
- Paris, finding out that Rory is her replacement
"I got sixteen words
that she used that I have never heard before."
- Christopher, after hearing Rory debate
"We were only apart
for like two seconds and you managed to sleep with every one of your sister's
friends! How did you even do that? I mean, did you work them in shifts?"
- Rory to Logan, "Bridesmaid Revisited"
"I moved thirty miles
away from my parents for a reason! Those thirty miles act as a buffer,
so that when my mother says something that makes me want to kill her, I
have to drive thirty miles to do it! Ten miles in, I usually calm down
or I get hungry or I pass a mall! Something prevents me from actually killing
her. That buffer is my mother's best friend."
- Lorelai, worried that her parents might move to Stars Hollow
"If it makes you feel
better you can tell him that we did something."
"Thanks, Jess."
- Jess and Rory
"Even when we're together,
you're someplace else. You leave and you don't kiss me goodbye. We're at
dinner and you're on your cell phone the whole time. You never leave notes
anymore about where you're gonna be, so I have no idea where you are. You
haven't forgiven me."
"What are you talking
about?"
"For the girls I was
with when we were separated."
"I said I forgive
you."
"Yeah, you said it,
but you haven't."
- Logan and Rory
"You need to bring
a date to the wedding and Kirk does not count! ...You have to find someone
to bring you, you have to find a man."
"In one day, are you
kidding me? It took me this long to find Luke."
- Mrs. Kim to Lorelai
"An unmarried woman,
alone, of a certain age, dressed the way I dress, apparently is Korean
for Jenna Jameson."
- Lorelai
"Why are we running?"
"58 seats, 62 Koreans."
- Sookie and Lorelai
"The universal sounds
of family."
- Lorelai, overhearing Mrs. Kim arguing in Korean
"So, you have a daughter,
right? That's good. You'd be, like, totally wasted on a son."
- April to Lorelai
"They're beginning
to call you Hagrid."
- Anna, to Luke, after April's party
"What is Stars Hollow
if not a haven for colorful characters?"
- Sookie
"They're horrible!
All they do is bitch, bitch, bitch. I'd have left every one of them, too."
- Liz, realising she's made a mistake in joining a single moms support
group
"So, can I get you
ladies anything? Some compassion, some perspective?"
- Luke, to the single moms group
"Can we please talk
about something other than food?"
"Starvation. Scurvy.
The Donner Party."
- Emily and Lorelai, after an abortive dinner
"We thought it was
time for a sit down."
"A sit down? What,
did you hide a gun in the bathroom first?"
- Richard and Lorelai
"Oh great, a matching
set."
- Logan, waking up two find Doyle and Paris as his "sentries"
"You're scaring me
with your knowledge of torture."
"I had to do a paper
on the Attorney General. It comes with the territory."
- Logan and Rory
"Dad implied you were
surrounded by a small army, enough to care for you and help topple Saddam."
- Lorelai to a recovering Emily
"Your job is to figure
out what she's saying from what she actually said."
- Luke, explaining the ways of women to TJ
"Thank you for being
who I want to get out of hospital for."
- Logan to Rory
"I could hear my soul
dying."
- Logan, after a business meeting
"If you can't be happy
at least you can be drunk."
- Rory
"To the Queen!"
- Colin and Finn, at Logan's "British" going-away party
"Tell me not to go."
"I can't do that."
- Logan and Rory
"It's been a long time
since I've seen such a blatant setup."
- Caroline, discussing her 'date' with Christopher
"Is there a disease
for being scared of a person who is scared of spiders?"
"No, I don't think
there is a scientific name for it."
"How about Arachnophobia-phobia?"
- Lorelai and Caroline
"I saw this guy in
front of me who was a real man. He was solid, and he was strong. He would
protect me, but he got me. I knew all these things when we started dating,
but in that moment when I realized how much he cared for Rory...that was
it. All of a sudden I was ready."
- Lorelai, about Luke
"All we've done for
months is talk. I want to *do*."
- Lorelai, about her and Luke
"I don't like ultimatums."
"I don't like Mondays,
but unfortunately, they come around eventually."
- Luke and Lorelai
"It wasn't just a fight,
Sookie. It was him not fighting for me. I gave him an ultimatum... and
he let me walk away."
- Lorelai, "The Long Morrow"
"That's me. I'm fast.
I'm the perfect storm of caffeine and genetics."
- Lorelai
"Do you want your kid
to spend her life behind the counter at Dunkin' Donuts? Do you? ...Because
that's where she's headed, selling chocolate donuts and glazed fritters
for the next 40 years to people in business suits who actually gave a crap
about their academic future... She's got a C average, which means she's
either lazy or stupid. I can work with either. Frankly, sometimes stupid
is easier. I can scare the stupid out of you, but the lazy runs deep."
- Paris, running an "SAT Prep" course for underachievers
"I don’t know, wealthy,
good-looking, hedonistic heir to billion-dollar, multinational media conglomerate
moves to London and spends nights pining away for his college girlfriend?
Who's watching that movie?"
- Paris, about Rory and Logan's long-distance relationship
"You need to spell
it out. He's got to know where the red lines are, or he's gonna leap right
over them and into bed with multiple British floozies."
- Paris, urging Rory to lay down the law to Logan
"Does this look like
a soup kitchen?"
"It's a little depressing,
but no…"
"Pay your bill."
- Bad mood Luke to a customer
"Couldn't sleep. And,
initially, I was at a loss. How would I pass the time until my one and
only offspring, the fruit of my loins… Loin fruit that she is, straggled
out of bed to grace me with her presence?"
- Lorelai, explaining why Rory's getting waffles, "That's What You Get
For Making Whoopee"
"Were you planning
on visiting Asia or invading it?"
- Lorelai, on Rory's extensive preparations for her Asia trip
"We are gonna make
our own sushi."
"You, me, and raw
fish? Is that safe?"
"...I'll let you in
on a secret. The fish is really fried chicken."
- Lorelai, bringing Asia to Rory
"Oh, cows must envy
your stomach."
"Don't get me wrong
— my stomach's ready to explode. This is not a physical hunger. It's more
of a spiritual hunger."
- Rory and Lorelai, about to attempt fried ice cream
"You know what, mom?
If you're heartbroken, rent 'An Affair to Remember', have a good cry, and
drown your sorrows in a pint of ice cream. You get a hideously unflattering
breakup haircut. You don't sleep with dad."
- Rory, letting fly at Lorelai
"Well, live and learn.
Like, now I know not to drink the water in Mexico, which, by the way, somebody
should really tell you. And I learned that I'm not morally against murder.
I just wish I had the guts to do it."
- Zach, after his disastrous honeymoon to Mexico
"I can't be making
mistakes when I'm a mother. I'm not the person I need to be to be able
to do this. I'm not perfect yet. I'm so not perfect... Yeah. I'm scared."
- Lane to Rory
"What do you know about
string theory?"
"Don't underestimate
me, Luke. I read. And I watch 'Battlestar Galactica'."
- Luke and TJ
"Let's just stop fighting
it, okay? And you go back to being Lorelai Gilmore. I'll go back to being
the guy in the diner who pours your coffee."
- Luke to Lorelai
"I don't know how they're
gonna come at me... I mean It could be guilt, pity, anger, contempt. They
have so many options."
- Lorelai, bracing herself for her first post-breakup Friday Night Dinner
"Maybe their freak-outs
are like some kind of compass for me, you know like, I know I'm doing what
I want to do if it freaks them out. And then I thought, what if I don't
want to do what I want to do because I want to do it, but because they
don't want me to?"
"Huh?"
"I mean what if I
don't like what I like because I like it, but because my mother doesn't
like it and doesn't want me to like it? What if I don't actually like the
music that I like or the movies or the clothes or the men?"
- Lorelai, wondering to Rory if she's just reacting against her parents,
"Lorelai's First Cotillion"
"It's freeing, really.
I never realized how my mother influenced my every decision, even decisions
that don't seem like decisions."
- Lorelai
"He could come in if
you wanted him to. I could make myself scarce... God I forget what the
protocol is when your mom is dating your dad."
- Rory, feeling awkward around Lorelai and Chris, "S'Wonderful, S'Marvelous"
"You know, you can
admit it if you're lost. I will not lose any respect for you."
"I'm not lost."
"Well, then, are you
planning to murder me? Because people will notice I'm gone. They'll look
for me."
- Lorelai and Christopher, off the beaten track
"Wait. What is this?
What's this car? What's going on here? Are you two on a date?"
- Emily, after Chris and Lorelai pick her up in a convertible
"Well, naturally I
thought they were referring to the Archduke. So I jumped in — as who wouldn't
— with some thoughts about the various conspiracy theories surrounding
his infamous assassination in Sarajevo. Imagine my surprise when I learned
that Franz Ferdinand was the name of a very popular rock-n-roll band."
"That's what he gets
for trying to fraternize after class with his students."
- Richard and Emily, telling a Friday Night dinner story, "The Great Stink"
"I hope Gigi Picks
up the language and the customs, but none of the rudeness."
- Chris, taking Gigi to Paris, "French Twist"
"Need you help buddy,
Dan Cryer's about one drink away from hitting on Jerrickson's wife."
"...I got Cryer talking
golf — disaster averted."
- Phillip and Logan, on fire control at the cocktail party, "Introducing
Lorelai Planetarium"
"Uh I hate everyone
today."
"Including us?"
"Well no, not you
guys, but don't cross me, sister."
- Rory, to Olivia, after a very bad day
"I didn't even mean
to be mean, and I was mean, mean and judgmental and insensitive. I really
do hate everyone today, including myself. Great. The circle's complete."
- Rory, at the end of a long day
"The redcoats are coming!"
- Gigi, as Rory returns from London, "Santa's Secret Stuff"
"Kid took my antlers,
she took my antlers and galloped away."
- Rory, getting used to having little sister Gigi playing with her stuff
"You know what? I cannot
do this. Let us just stand here and let the awkwardness wash over us."
- Michel, abandoning an attempt at small talk with Luke
"Yeah April showed
up at the diner today out of the blue."
"You make it sound
like Pearl Harbor or something."
- Luke and April, bumping into Lorelai in the mall
"I'm sick of being
treated like I'm not a person, like I'm some incubator whose puffy ankles
and varicose veins and bathroom habits are up for discussion... I'm sick
of being told what to eat and what I shouldn't and what side I should sleep
on... It was such a small window... For years, I was this repressed kid,
and then there was the briefest of windows. And then — slam! All of a sudden,
I'm this overburdened mother. I barely got to do it, Zach. I barely got
the chance to be a person."
- Lane, inundated with pregnancy advice
"Honestly someone with
your chipper personality ought to be a weather girl or a preschool teacher."
- Emily, ungenerously describing a friendly nurse, "I'd Rather Be In Philadelphia"
"What happened to all
the competent people? That's what I'd like to know. Was there some giant
hole they all fell into or a virus that struck them all down, leaving the
morons of the world to sit behind the desks?"
- Emily, in the hospital
"So I tell Paris, 'I
don't care if it would theoretically increase my chances of getting a grant
to study in Russia. I am not willing to pretend to be an accomplished rhythmic
gymnast'."
- Rory, with an anecdote for Logan
"He's a really good
teacher, which isn't always a given, you know. I mean some smart people
can't translate their smarts to other people, but he is really good at
explaining things, and he makes you want to learn more."
- Rory, recalling Richard's lessons
"You're not his secretary.
You're his wife."
"Yes and what do you
know about being a wife? You've been married for what — 40 days? That's
nothing. Your father and I have been married for over 40 years. For 2/3
of my life, I have been the wife of Richard Gilmore. I run his household.
I plan his meals. I buy his clothes, entertain his business associates.
When he loses his reading glasses, I find them. When he wants a nightcap.
I make it for him. If he can't remember the name of a colleague's wife,
I whisper it in his ear. That's what I do — I take care of him. That's
my job. That's who I am. If I could be performing his surgery right now,
I would be, but I can't — it's out of my hands. It's out of my hands, and
there's nothing I can do but wait. I could lose him, Lorelai. He's my whole
life, and there's nothing I can do!"
- Lorelai and Emily, in the hospital
"Logan Huntzberger?
Between the women and the drinking, that kid was on the Colin Farrell freeway
about to pull over into the Robert Downey jr. Rest stop... He's changed.
You changed him. It's amazing."
- Paris to Rory, "Farewell My Pet"
"Talk to me. How are
you feeling?"
"Oh, good. Fine. Medium.
You know, rare — medium rare. Rare."
- Rory and Lorelai, on the Christopher situation
"I apologize that my
loss has come at an inopportune time for you. I will try to schedule the
next death when it is more convenient."
- Michel, upset that people aren't taking his "dog funeral" more seriously
"You've always been
this possibility for me. This wonderful possibility. But it's just not
right. And I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry... I need you to know that you're
the man I want to want."
- Lorelai to Christopher
"Birthdays aren't a
very big deal in the Huntzberger family. Because birthdays aren't something
you achieve. Why should you be lauded for something that just happens?"
- Logan, "I'm A Kayak, Hear Me Roar"
"Your father is running
low on his blood thinners, and the pharmacy can't be bothered to deliver."
"Are you calling to
ask me if I will pick up dad’s prescription?"
"Well, I can't leave
the house, or chaos will ensue."
"You're calling to
imply that you would like to ask me to pick up dad’s prescription?"
- Emily and Lorelai
"Would you like a drink?"
"Mmm, I thought the
house was dry."
"Vodka or scotch?"
"Wow, it’s a regular
speakeasy."
- Emily and Lorelai
"It's after 12:00.
Is anyone alive in there?"
"I'm alive, but I
think my brain is dead."
- Rory to a hungover Logan, "Will You Be My Lorelai Gilmore?"
"There are fights you
can recover from and fights you can't, and not going to your daughter's
baby shower — I mean, I know it's hard, but I don't want you to draw a
line in the sand now that you can't cross later. My mother missed so much.
I don't want that to happen to you."
- Lorelai to Mrs Kim
"We had to write a
five-page fictional story featuring someone we know as the hero, and I
chose Kirk. It's hilarious."
- April to Luke
"I just want to sell
my boat."
"...I thought you’d
take it to your grave with you, maybe you’d row yourself across the River
Styx."
- Kirk
"The juice from the
pickles has leached over to the grilled cheese, rendering it sodden and
inedible... Prior to serving the dish, Lane would use the French fries
to build a tiny dam…"
- Kirk, instructing Zach on how to serve up lunch in the diner, "Gilmore
Girls Only"
"I'm sorry. I really
don't enjoy talking this early in the morning."
- Luke to Zach, opening the diner
"Taylor, what the hell
are you doing? ...Why is there a giant wall of hay right in front of my
diner?!"
- Luke, understandably upset, "Hay Bale Maze"
"Oh, Stars Hollow is
better than Colonial Williamsburg."
- Logan, watching a Luke-Taylor bustup
"I wasn't sure to what
extent I should factor you in."
"Well, I want you
to know I don't want you to factor me in... I'm not sure exactly what I'm
gonna be doing next... I know I want to start working, but I think you
should do what you want to do, and then -- and then maybe I'll factor you
in."
- Rory and Logan, discussing the future
"I was just getting
used to the fact I had a daughter. Now all of a sudden, I have a teenager.
It’s wild. Time just goes by."
- Luke, about April
"Hey, if you find out
why we broke up, let me know".
- Doyle to Rory, after an incomprehensible fight with Paris, "Just Like
Riding A Bike"
"It's inappropriate
for my best friend to be living alone with my ex-boyfriend."
- Paris, about Doyle and Rory
"I love you, Paris
Geller. You are the strongest, most infuriating, most exciting woman I
have ever met in my entire life, and there is no way I'm gonna let you
go."
- Doyle to Paris
"Clearly something
came up when I sang that song. But I don't know if it was a new, now feeling
or the residue of an old feeling that came up because of the drinks and
the lyrics and the hat. So that’s why I'm going to the diner today -- to
see how I feel, sober and without the lyrics of 'I will always love you'
streaming in front of me."
- Lorelai, with Sookie, trying to figure out her feelings for Luke, "Unto
The Breach"
"After everything you've
done for me—"
"I'm not gonna not pay."
"After everything T.J.’s put you through?"
"That’s very nice of you."
- Luke, accepting Liz's gift
"I've given you the
don't drink to excess speech, right?"
"Well if you haven't, you've certainly taught me by example."
- Lorelai and Rory
"I'm excited, sad,
and nostalgic. Terrified."
- Lorelai, as Rory decides her future
"Remember when we were
in the Life And Death Brigade and we stood on top of that tower, and we
held hands and we jumped? Let’s do that again, Rory. Let’s jump."
- Logan to Rory
"Mom, you've given
me everything I need."
- Rory to Lorelai on the series finale "Bon Voyage"
"I just want to see
you happy."
- Luke to Lorelai
Between Lorelai and
Rory, we’ve been treated all season to the sight of two women putting up
with petulant, selfish, unacceptable behavior from the rich, spoiled men
in their lives. Wow, what a great turn of events for a show that was originally
supposed to be about two spunky, independent women making their way in
the world with love and support from each other and their extended network
of quirky friends. This season of Gilmore Girls has just trashed that legacy.
The sad fact is, I no longer care if Luke and Lorelai get back together.
I just want this whole thing to be over.
- Maureen Ryan, on season 7 of the show, "Chicago Tribune"
# LORELAI QUOTES
"I feel so rich and
suddenly in complete agreement with everything Bush has to say."
- Lorelai after receiving a check for $75,000
"So, I think I’m in
touch with the other side."
"The other side of..."
"The other side."
"With Republicans?"
"No. Lately I’ve been
having these dark premonitions."
- Lorelai explains her dark premonitions to Rory
"There are times in
your life when you have to do ridiculous things for money."
- Lorelai passes on some wisdom to Rory
"Do not eat chips out
of a communal bowl. You might as well stick your hand in a toilet. If you're
desperate, offer to be the person who replenishes them with new bags and
grab a handful out of the new bag and dump the rest in the communal bowl."
- Lorelai offers some pre-party advice to Rory
"Rory, my heart. It
is Saturday, the day of rest."
"Sunday’s the day
of rest."
"No, Saturday is the
day of pre-rest."
"Pre-rest?"
"Yeah, so that way
when you actually get to Sunday you’re rested enough to enjoy your rest."
- Lorelai, to Rory, trying to stay in bed
"What was with those
kids? So curious, so full of questions. Shouldn’t their brains be completely
fried on TV and video games by now?"
- Lorelai, exasperated by a Q&A at Stars Hollow High
"Is there a problem?"
"Nothing Shakespeare
couldn't turn into a really good play."
- Lorelai, exasperated by her mother
"Rory, your grandfather
and I thought it might be nice after dinner for you to go around the house
and pick out what you'd like us to leave you in our wills... You should
have what you like. So look around and when you see something you like
stick a Post-It on it."
- Emily & Richard make plans for the future
"You can’t even let
Rory have one piece of our lives, even if it’s her choice."
- Emily to Lorelai, as Lorelai freaks out about Rory applying to Yale
"It’s from my mother."
"What is it?"
"It’s heavy. Must
be her hopes and dreams for me."
"I thought she discarded
those years ago."
- Lorelai and Rory get a delivery from Emily
"Honestly, Lorelai.
It's not your looks that keep them away. Think about that."
- Emily, as Lorelai doesn't bring a date to a function
"How is my running
with you gonna change anything?"
"Because people think
you’re nice. You’re quiet, you say excuse me, you look like little birds
help you get dressed in the morning. People don’t fear you."
- Rory and Paris, as Paris seeks a vice president, "I Can't Get Started"
"What do you mean what?
He just asked you out on a date."
...
"He did?"
"Yes."
"Did I accept?"
"Yes."
- Rory fills Paris in on what just happened
"I can’t date. I’m
not genetically set up for it."
- Paris gets nervous before her date
"If I go there it's
going to look like I went there just to be with him. Suddenly I'm Felicity
without the hair issues and I'm not terribly comfortable with that."
- Paris on why she doesn't want to follow her boyfriend to Princeton
"By the way, you know
I ultimately do all these things for the good of mankind, right? Sometimes
I don’t think I come off that way."
- Paris desperately needs some volunteer work for her college application
"You don't want to
go. You don't, it's not you."
"I have multiple personalities.
It might be one of me."
- Paris attempts to dissuade Rory from some extra credit activities, "Hammers
and Veils"
"Marry rich."
- Paris retorts to Louise, "Hammers and Veils"
"I’m sorry, have I
ever been mistaken for a patient person?"
- Paris is not one for small talk, "I Can't Get Started"
"I know I'm not the
first one to say it to you, but you're insane."
"Okay, look, I know
you and me, we..."
"Shouldn't be around
each other armed."
- Rory and Paris
"I think she periodically
makes a whirring noise and then just shuts down."
- Rory, discussing Paris's sleeping habits
"We've been sitting
here for an hour and have sold eight tickets... Unbutton your top. Teenage
boys are controlled by one thing. Unbutton your top."
"No.
"Well, me doing it
isn't going to help any."
"Paris, you need to
relax. You need to stop worrying. You need to stop obsessing. You need
to stop looking at my boobs."
- Paris and Lorelai try to sell some grad night tickets
"Uh, what are you doing?"
"I'm giving you a
hug... Just give into it, baby. Come on, you can do it. That a girl. Unclench
the fists, Paris. Unclench the fists. Yeah, there you go."
- Paris and Lorelai bond
"How was I supposed
to know you were gonna jump out of your seat like a maniac?"
"You know me. You
room with me. You should have known."
- Rory and Paris, "Girls in Bikinis, Boys Doing the Twist"
"This is the kind of
cold you read about in a Dickens novel. We should be in a workhouse or
shilling for Fagin... It's been the coldest winter in the history of winter."
- Paris, "Girls in Bikinis, Boys Doing the Twist"
"Don't drink. And after
you're done not drinking, drink tons of water and take two aspirin before
you go to bed. And take Paris with you everywhere. Not much can happen
with that girl along."
- Lorelai's advice to Rory before spring break, "Girls in Bikinis, Boys
Doing the Twist"
"That was subtle."
"What are you talking
about?"
"The Joanie loves
Chachi moment."
"He said 'hey'. I
said 'hey' back. I was being polite."
"In Burma, you'd be
married...or brutally killed."
- Rory makes the mistake of 'heying' a cute guy in front of Paris, "Girls
in Bikinis..."
"Come on... go. Flirting
seems to be a very big part of this spring break ritual, and I'm taken.
I can't flirt. I have to live vicariously through you."
- Paris orders Rory to flirt with the cute guy, "Girls in Bikinis..."
"Look around. Every
single person in this place is having a better time than we are. Why? I
mean, we've been doing everything everybody else is."
- Paris, not getting into spring break, "Girls in Bikinis..."
"Paris, you're not
yelling at me, you're yelling at the world."
"I'm not yelling at
all. This is the natural register of my voice."
- Terrence, giving Paris some 'life coaching'
"When Paris is happy
the whole world is happy, but when she's not happy, the whole world is
'Deadwood'."
- Rory, describing Paris's moods to Logan
"What's with the big
jar of disgusting insects?"
"Oh. They're fruit
flies. I'm finishing an important paper on population genetics and I have
to monitor how often Drosophila melanogaster do the nasty."
"Gross."
"Complain to God,
not me."
- Rory and Paris
"So, I downloaded your
reading lists, and I went to the bookstore and hid copies of your books
so you wouldn't get stuck buying used ones with some idiot's comments in
the margins."
- Paris, updating Rory after her absence
"I'm running out of
French curse-words that they won't understand."
- Michel is exasperated by a wedding party
"The one on the left
is Matt. The one on the right is Mark... I'm very good at observing people,
you know, learning the tics and traits, sound of their voices. It's a gift."
"That one has a Post-It
on its back."
"Oh, well, then that's
Mark. The one on the right is Matt."
- Michel explains how he distinguishes identical twins to Sookie
"After working six
hours longer than I usually work and performing tasks I despise and am
ashamed of, and now I am going home to wash off the stench of this horrifying
day."
- Michel, to Lorelai, "I Can't Get Started"
"Hey, how is it out
there?"
"It is cold and gray
like a fat dead pigeon."
- Lorelai makes the mistake of asking Michel about weather, "Love and War
and Snow"
"He should’ve just
driven it out on a monster truck. He’s shamelessly catering to his demographic."
- Sookie is not impressed Jackson presents his deep fried turkey to the
guys
"Oh no! It just figures
that the only Korean boy at this party has his Korean girl radar turned
on."
- Lane, wishing she was somewhere else
"He’s jealous. Oh my
God, he’s jealous, that’s so great! ...I’ve never made a guy jealous before.
I feel so powerful."
"Just remember, there’s
cute jealous and there’s Othello."
- Lane and Rory discuss Lane's womanly wiles
"That is not Dave Rygalski.
I mean, not the one that I’m in a band with. That is Dave Rygalski, local
Christian guitar player that my mom and I met very briefly and innocently
at the dance marathon, and that I coincidentally ran across again when
I found his ad seeking Christian guitar accompaniment gigs up on our church
bulletin board. I even put the fake ad up at church and pretended to find
it with my mom next to me."
"So, are you guys
dating?"
"We’re laying the
groundwork."
- Lane and Lorelai, "A Deep Fried Korean Thanksgiving"
"Watch it. You break
it, you buy it. Ten percent off for cousins, twenty percent off for nephews
and nieces."
- Mrs. Kim hosts family Thanksgiving, "A Deep Fried Korean Thanksgiving"
"I know you have very
strict rules about dating and boys, but I just want you to know that I'm
a good person. I don't smoke, I don't drink, I've never gotten a ticket,
I'm healthy, I take care of myself, I floss. I never watch more than 30
minutes of television a night partly because I think it's a waste of time
and partly because there's nothing on. I respect my parents, I do well
in school, I never play video games in case they do someday prove that
playing them can turn you into a serial killer. I don't drink coffee. I
hate soda because the carbonation freaks me out. I'm happy to give up meat
if you feel strongly about it. I don't mind wearing a tie. I enjoy playing
those hymns on my guitar, and I really, really want to take your daughter
to the prom."
- Dave, giving his best shot to Mrs. Kim
"How are his friends?"
"Yes. Is there spin-off
potential?"
- Madeline and Louise try to get the lowdown on Jamie from Rory
"By the way, I think
you might be the prettiest girl I’ve ever seen."
- Kirk, trying to ask Lorelai out
"It’s been four hours.
Go home."
"It’s boring at home.
My TV’s broken."
"So do something else."
"Like what?"
"Read a book."
"What book?
"Any book."
"I’m gonna need a
suggestion."
"Moby Dick.
"That’s about the
whale?"
"Yes."
"No. What else?"
"Forget it, just sit
there."
"Okay."
- Jess tries and fails to get Kirk to leave the diner
"Ladies, gentlemen,
honored guests. Who owns the silver Volvo because you’re blocking me in?"
- Kirk politely tries to escape from Sookie's wedding rehearsal, "I Can't
Get Started"
"I come to announce
to one and all that the day we all thought would never get here has arrived."
"The Day of Reckoning?"
- Taylor and Kirk, being Taylor and Kirk
# QUOTES ABOUT THE SHOW & CAST
"Up until her freshman
year in college, every boy Rory met fell in love with her."
- Zap2It.Com's TV Gal reviews the
show
"Mothers and daughters.
They speak so fast, but they speak so true."
- Turk on Scrubs, discussing "The Gilmore Girls"
"I am so mad at Lorelai,
I can't even talk right now."
- J.D. on "Scrubs"
"This is my number,
if you ever feel like coffee or a basketball game or something. And if
you could give a copy of this to the girl who plays the kid on your show,
too?"
- Matt to Lauren Graham on "Studio 60"
What a cast: ...Alexis
Bledel with her perfect little heart-shaped face.
- David Edelstein, reviewing film "Sin City" starring Rory\Alexis for "MSN
Slate"
"It's not a woman you
need, it's a good night's sleep. You couldn't handle a woman in the state
you're in."
- Becky (played by Alexis Bledel), in "Sin City"
"You're running out
of valley, cowboy."
- Becky (played by Alexis Bledel), in "Sin City"
"Aw, sugar, you just
gone and done the dumbest thing in your whole life."
- Becky (played by Alexis Bledel), in "Sin City"
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