- Kate Summers: I know that Edward loves me every bit as much as I love him. But his first marriage didn't work out, and - and well, he's a little reluctant to try again. So if we get married, I want it to be because we really want to - not because my mommy made us. OK?
- Marjorie Summers: ...OK.
- Edward Stratton III: Where'd you get those clothes? Let me guess - there was a terrible explosion just as you walked by the Crayola factory.
- Marjorie Summers: She spends so much time around him - a lot more than she does around you. And yet she never writes about him. I... I wonder why?
- Ricky Stratton: Well, it's probably because me and Kate ae friends. But her and my dad - they just have a business relationship.
- [she turns and stares into his eyes]
- Ricky Stratton: ...And that - that's all they have... nothin' personal goin' on there.
- [she leans in, fixing her gaze and scrutinizing him]
- Ricky Stratton: ...No sirree, Bob... Nope... Boy, it's hot in here.
- Ricky Stratton: [showing Kate's mother their photo album] You have to promise not to look at the ones of me in my bassinet; they're X-rated.
- Ricky Stratton: Watch out, Dad. This changing the subject stuff is a trap. She'll let you think you're safe, then all of a sudden - blammo! Right between the eyes.
- Kate Summers: You're meddling again.
- Marjorie Summers: Oh, Katie. Is it meddling to want to see my daughter married before I drop dead?
- Marjorie Summers: I just want to meet your hubby before I meet my maker.
- Kate Summers: Mom, your maker is in no hurry to meet you.
- Marjorie Summers: Let me put it in real estate terms: You've been in escrow four times, and you haven't once closed. You don't get married pretty soon, you're gonna be a fixer-upper.
- Kate Summers: Ricky, I'm sure there are some things you don't tell your father, right?
- Ricky Stratton: Huh, no, I tell him everything.
- Kate Summers: Everything?
- Ricky Stratton: Absolutely everything.
- Kate Summers: Well, what about the time you snuck out of the house at midnight and...
- Ricky Stratton: Shh!
- Edward Stratton III: Honey, there's something I don't understand here. Why -- why haven't you told your mother about us?
- [to RIcky]
- Edward Stratton III: You're gonna tell me where you went, young man.
- [to Kate]
- Edward Stratton III: Seems to me, you would have told your mother about us by now.
- [to Ricky]
- Edward Stratton III: I don't like this sneaking out of the house business. Not one bit, I don't like it.
- [to Kate]
- Edward Stratton III: Must be some reason you haven't told her about us?
- [to Ricky]
- Edward Stratton III: And if it happens again, you're grounded, buster.