- Marcella Willis: Well, if the frogs try any funny business, like trying to take my little boy away from us, I'm gonna go straight to the President.
- Francis Fortescue: [Playing with a puppet] But this one, Serpentina, is an evil adulteress, a murderer, a home wrecker.
- Mrs. Fortescue: Wow. We all know people like that. Bitches.
- [Francis gives her a look]
- Mrs. Fortescue: Oh, so what? These are the facts of life. It's a dark and dirty world out there, darling. Take my word for it. Don't expect a bed of roses.
- Bill Willis: Aw, come on now, honey. You know a soldiers daughter...
- Charlotte Anne 'Channe' Willis, Age 14: Stop with the "soldiers daughter" again. Anyway, I'm not. I'm a writers daughter.
- Bill Willis: Well that's okay then. They cry all the time.
- [Channe cries]
- Marcella Willis: He won't see you. He never looks up. Once he's on his way, he's on his way.
- Billy's Mother: It wouldn't matter if he did. He has no idea who I am.