“- Doug: Maybe we should invite him down his first night?
- Jane: No, no. Doug, the last thing you want is for your tenant to become your guest. Keep your distance.
- Doug: I suppose.
- Jane: Well, don't. Don't. Leave him alone. Let's... let's give him a chance to get adjusted first.”
Brian Cox - Doug
Mercedes Ruehl - Jane

“- Emmy Brown: Good night.
- Georges Iscovescu: It's better than good! Somehow, these walls will not seem so empty inside. You will be here very close to me. Breathing in the same night.”
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland - Emmy Brown
Charles Boyer - Georges Iscovescu

“- Rose Smith: Why are we eating early?
- Esther Smith: You certainly don't want the whole family sitting there drinking in every word while a man proposes to you long-distance.”

Lucille Bremer - Rose Smith
Judy Garland - Esther Smith

“I'm going to write you a letter every day you're gone. I know they won't deliver them. I won't even mail them, but I'm going to write them anyway. That way we'll kind of be in touch. That way we'll feel close.”

Phyllis Thaxter - Ellen Lawson

“I'm going to be worrying about you every second while you're gone.”

Mary Elizabeth Winstead - Wendy Christensen