- Winifred Rounds: You know that feeling you get when it feels like something happened a long time ago? I keep waiting for that feeling.
- Charlie: I was being subtle.
- Winifred Rounds: Don't be subtle. Dickens isn't subtle. Your audience isn't subtle. And you aren't subtle.
- Winifred Rounds: Try to imagine. You're an angry, lonely, frightened old man. Try to think about how that feels.
- Emmet Rounds: Going behind my back. That's the worst of it.
- Helen Rounds: They'd have told you straight out if you weren't such a grump.
- Emmet Rounds: So she thinks I'm a grump, does she?
- Helen Rounds: You are a grump!