- Rory: Sounds like you're over thinking this. Maybe if you just put pen to paper.
- Lorelai: I tried that, I thought, "I'll just sit down and write whatever comes - no judgment, no inner critic." Boy was that a bad idea.
- Rory: Really? Why?
- Lorelai: Because my brain is a wild jungle full of scary gibberish. "I'm writing a letter, I can't write a letter, why can't I write a letter? I'm wearing a green dress, I wish I was wearing my blue dress, my blue dress is at the cleaner's. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue, 'Casablanca' is such a good movie. Casablanca, the White House, Bush. Why don't I drive a hybrid car? I should really drive a hybrid car. I should really take my bicycle to work. Bicycle, unicycle, unitard. Hockey puck, rattlesnake, monkey, monkey, underpants!"
- Rory: Hockey puck, rattlesnake, monkey, monkey, underpants?
- Lorelai: I'm so mad at you!
- Rory: What kind of greeting is that?
- Lorelai: What kind of daughter doesn't let her mother pick her up at the airport?
- Rory: The kind who parks her car at the airport car park.
- Lorelai: But I'm the kind of mother who picks her daughter up at the airport, you know, with flowers and coffee and a fake chauffeur's sign. Why would you mess with my sense of self?
- Rory: My car was parked at the airport car park.
- Lorelai: So what, I could have driven to the airport, picked you up, brought you back. Then we both could have driven to pick up your car and come here.
- Rory: Yeah, 'cause that wouldn't be a waste of gas or anything.
- Rory: It smells so good in here with all our trees.
- Lorelai: It's like a dozen car air fresheners.
- Rory: Just imagine how good it's gonna be once all our trees are here.
- Christopher: This is crazy!
- Lorelai: Seven trees.
- Christopher: Which was crazy.
- Lorelai: What? Buck a tree.
- Rory: Dad, we have to have at least one tree in the kitchen.
- Georgia 'GG' Hayden: Yeah, dad.
- Christopher: I'm in a forest of crazy.
- Rory: I love our trees!
- Georgia 'GG' Hayden: Me too!
- Christopher: You don't think our trees are...
- Lorelai: What?
- Christopher: Maybe a little homely?
- Lorelai: Homely?
- Christopher: I'm just saying.
- Rory: What!
- Lorelai: What are you saying?
- Christopher: That our trees are not classically good-looking. I mean if you were to look up "tree" in the dictionary, you would not find one of these fellows.
- Lorelai: Why would you look up "tree" in the dictionary?
- Rory: So we don't have classically good-looking trees.
- Lorelai: [At Chris] You don't know what a tree is.
- Rory: Come on, look at that tree.
- Christopher: I'm looking.
- Rory: That tree has character.
- Lorelai: It does.
- Rory: That tree has earned character by persevering through freezing winters and forest fires and floods.
- Lorelai: This tree's a fighter.
- Rory: Woodpeckers, I mean maniacal woodpeckers just pecking at its trunk.
- Lorelai: Survivor.
- Rory: Peck, peck, peck, day in and day out.
- Lorelai: That tree's a champion.