- Nate: Claire, you wanna know a secret? I spent my whole life being scared. Scared of not being ready, of not being right, of not being who I should be. And where did it get me?
- George Sibley: [Making a toast] To Nate.
- David: To Nate.
- Bettina: To Nate.
- Claire: To Nate.
- Officer Keith Charles: To Nate.
- Ruth: To my firstborn.
- Anthony: To Uncle Nate.
- Durrell: Yeah, to Uncle Nate.
- Brenda: [to Maya] Can you say "To Daddy"?
- Maya Fisher: To Daddy!
- Brenda: To Nate.
- Ruth: [talking on the phone] I have to ask you something.
- Maggie Sibley: Sure.
- Ruth: You were with Nate the night he...
- Maggie Sibley: Yes.
- Ruth: Was he happy?
- Maggie Sibley: He was... feeling, I think, that his life was very complicated.
- Ruth: I'm not talking about his life. I'm talking about that night. Was... Was he happy?
- Maggie Sibley: He was.
- Ruth: Good... Were you?
- Maggie Sibley: Yes... Yes I was happy.
- Ruth: Good. Thank you for that... It helps.
- Maggie Sibley: Ruth... I'm sorry, I have to go.
- Nate: [whispering into Claire's ear as she takes a family photo] You can't take a picture of this; it's already gone.
- Ruth: If my experience is anything to go by, motherhood is the loneliest thing in the world. Nathaniel wasn't even here when Nate was born. He was still in Vietnam. Even when he came home and David was born. And having terrible asthma, Nathaniel was never really here for me. Whether it was the war or just him, I don't think I'll ever know.
- Brenda: You know Nate and I were.
- Ruth: I know, I know. I know he loved you the very best he could. And I know you needed more. So did I. And I hope and pray that you put everything. Everything behind us and let me help you, because I know you're gonna need it.
- Ruth: Thank you. I will need it. I do need it.
- Ruth: A what?
- Marcie: A meth lab.
- Bettina: Marcie, get serious!
- Ruth: I don't know what that is.
- Bettina: Its illegal and she's pulling your leg.
- Marcie: We'd make a lot of money.
- Bettina: So could opening our own professional assassin service, but that's not gonna happen either.
- Ruth: Why not? I think I'd like that.
- Marcie: We could steal people's kidneys.
- Bettina: Oh, God, no! It's too messy.
- Marcie: Ooh, um, I heard on NPR about those people that go in and clean up violent crime scenes. They make a shitload of money!
- Ruth: No! I'm not going to clean up someone else's violent crime.
- Bettina: Oh, we just have to accept it. There's nothing else. We have to become hookers.
- Ruth: I'm thinking of starting a day care service.
- Bettina: Seriously?
- Ruth: Yes. For dogs.
- [All break into laughter]
- Claire: [leaving the funeral home to move to New York] Mom.
- Ruth: You gave me life. My sweet baby girl... Don't let them work you too hard at you new job.
- Claire: I won't, Mom. I really hope you can come and visit.
- Ruth: I'll try.
- Ruth: [hugs Claire] Oh, Clarie, I pray you'll be filled with hope for as long as you possibly can.
- Claire: Thank you for everything and thank you for giving me life.
- Ruth: You gave me life.
- Claire: Oh my, God, I don't wanna go!
- George Sibley: [after her reminder that he left her and her brother, never to fully regain contact] I'm sorry.
- Maggie Sibley: Don't be. That's the way life is, right? I mean, you ruin things, you walk away. You go somewhere else until it's ruined... Just let me go.