- Annie Camden: [to Mrs. Mackoul] I can't thank you enough for giving me this opportunity to work here, doing something important. It's been rewarding and interesting and fun...
- Mrs. Carmen Mackoul: But you don't want to do it anymore?
- Annie Camden: No, sorry.
- Mrs. Carmen Mackoul: Well, the funny thing is, I was going to ask you to come on full-time. With everything going on in the world, parents want the added security of a private school and we've had so many requests that we're expanding. We need more teachers.
- Annie Camden: I appreciate the implied offer, but I can't. Thank you.
- Lucy Camden: If God didn't want me to have that ring, he wouldn't have had Jeremy give it to me.
- Ruthie Camden: You're actually going to invoke the name of God as the cause for your insanity?
- Lucy Camden: Doesn't everyone?
- Annie Camden: I feel very calm. I've been feeling very conflicted, but as of today, I feel very calm. And that's good because with all the tings going on out there in the world, it helps to stay calm in here. See, I had this dream for years to teach and finally after all that time, I got my dream when Mrs. Mackoul asked me to join that staff at Ruthie's school. It was very much my dream come true.
- Rev. Eric Camden: And now you're giving up your dream come true?
- Annie Camden: It's no longer my dream. I love working with any one student, but I feel disconnected working with a group of students in the classroom. I want to do more than discuss questions of morality. I want to inspire each child to lead a moral life. I think I can find a better way to do that.
- Rev. Eric Camden: And you don't feel sad that you always had this dream to each and once you got it, it wasn't what you wanted?
- Annie Camden: No, it probably happens to a lot of people.
- Rev. Eric Camden: Yeah, it does, but usually they just hang on to it because after all that dreaming, it seems a shame to give it up or admit that it was a mistake.
- Annie Camden: Well, I feel good about it. For me, letting go of the past is freeing.
- Rev. Eric Camden: Hmmm, evidently, that's a gene that wasn't inherited by Mary or Lucy.