- [first lines]
- Truly: Faugh. That dangerous, craggy rock face reminds me strongly of what used to be waiting for me when I returned home from work.
- Clegg: I used to be the kind of person who'd look at this field and think it was worth the walk getting here.
- Truly: Hah.
- Clegg: A love of nature depends quite a lot on your knees.
- Smiler: I'd sooner be at home with a little woman.
- Truly: You haven't got a little woman.
- Smiler: I know. And he's supposed to be working on it.
- Tom: Don't mind him. He's pining for a wife.
- Billy: I'll send him mine round. Mind you. she'll probably bring her sister.
- Smiler: I want one of me own.
- Truly: You couldn't keep the one you had.
- Smiler: True. Very true. I was younger; I've got more personality now.
- Clegg: I was once at somebody's sick bed when they actually died. I knew I'd been very boring, but I didn't think I was all that bad.
- Roz: Oh,, let's not go all sentimental.
- Edie: You always had your heart rule your head.
- Roz: I don't know why you think I was so bad. I was always saved from something serious by my tendency to giggle.
- Ivy: Yes, that always helps.
- Nora Batty: I was never one for giggling.
- Ivy: We've noticed.
- Pearl: How did you keep a straight face on your 'oneymoon?
- Nora Batty: Kept thinking how much it was costing.