- [in English class, Dinky has been asked to read out her poem]
- Dinky Bossetti: From a deep, immaculate kiss, she spread her two ripe, dripping limbs. And then I happened.
- Miss Day Ashburn: I beg your pardon?
- Dinky Bossetti: And the moon throbbed and fought with an angry sun. All that day and all that night. Until it forced me out.
- Miss Day Ashburn: Dinky.
- [steps away from her desk, moves next to Gerald and starts directing the poem at him. He squirms with embarrassment]
- Dinky Bossetti: Now I scald here... alone. Touch me. With your white words and your dead hands. Now, before I freeze.
- Miss Day Ashburn: That'll be enough!
- Dinky Bossetti: And become one of you.
- Miss Day Ashburn: DINKY!
- Dinky Bossetti: You interrupted me.
- Dinky Bossetti: Who understands ANYONE these days... who WANTS to?
- Gerald Howells: Gosh, I want to kiss you so bad, Dinky...
- Dinky Bossetti: It's good to want things...
- Dinky Bosseti: [referring to her adopted mother] We just don't fit. It happens. It's not gonna matter after Friday, anyway.
- Elizabeth Zaks: Why, because Roxy Carmichael's coming home?
- Dinky Bosseti: Because my mother's coming to get me.
- Elizabeth Zaks: Your mother? Wait a minute Dinky, I don't think I understand.
- Dinky Bosseti: It's not for you to understand, really.
- Dinky Bosseti: I'm sorry if I embarassed you the other day. I kind of got carried away.
- Gerald Howells: [he smiles, until his friend walks up and interrupts] You embarrassed yourself.
- Dinky Bosseti: I'm going to laugh at you someday, Gerald Howells.
- Louise: Starting tomorrow there will be hourly tours of Roxy Carmichael's birthplace. You'll see where Roxy slept and where she ate during her wonder years. You'll also see pictures of her beloved dog, Bonkers.
- Town person: She loved that dog. She used to ride it. It was a big dog.
- Les Bossetti: [after Dinky has caused a scene at Roxy Carmichael's home] We have a sale on outdoor Weatherweave next week! Do you know how bad this is for public relations? Hell, I'll be lucky if I sell five bolts.
- Rochelle: Gloria Sykes was there and she is going to tell everybody about this.
- [awkward pause; Dinky says nothing]
- Rochelle: Don't you have anything to say?
- Dinky Bossetti: About the carpet sale or Gloria Sykes?
- Dinky Bossetti: Once when I was six and a quarter, Mrs. Bosetti and I sat down and we talked.
- Elizabeth Zaks: So, what happened?
- Dinky Bossetti: Well... I told her I preferred books to dolls, boots to ballet slippers and that my idea of a family vacation was for all of us to go work on the Alaskan pipeline.
- Dinky Bossetti: [about her adoptive mother] You want to know what she calls a penis? Guess.
- Elizabeth Zaks: I don't know.
- Dinky Bossetti: Come on, guess.
- [pause]
- Dinky Bossetti: A "hoo-hoo".
- Elizabeth Zaks: Uh-huh.
- Dinky Bossetti: You wouldn't believe what she calls a vagina.
- Dinky Bossetti: [discussing her adoptive mother] She told everyone she thought she had Rosemary's baby. She had a thing about that movie.
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