- Meryl Lee: My dad died two weeks ago. Why isn't my picture on front of the paper? Why isn't everybody who loses somebody on the front bloody page?
- Meryl Lee: The seven stages of grief. What's the point in knowing where you're up to if you've still got to go through it anyway?
- Nick: There's always this stuff in the paper about a brave-battle-with-cancer but then you're also supposed to accept it and have a nice everybody-gather-round-and-hug-each-other death. And when's that turnaround supposed to happen?
- Joan: It doesn't matter how he died. Your father's death was not the sum of his life. It doesn't matter how life ends, it matters how it was. I couldn't give him my way of coping and you couldn't give him yours. Everybody has to find a way to face their own death, and life.
- Meryl Lee: Cancer cancer? You're dumping me because you've got cancer? Shouldn't I be dumping you if you've got cancer?