- Ben: [in his crumpled writing] Judgment has a way of creeping into every relationship. Even the most intimate. If we're lucky, somewhere along the way we meet a few people who listen to us without criticism or reproach. We call those people our friends.
- Josh: Let me tell you something about Bruce Springsteen, okay? Never trust anyone who is that passionate about the state of New Jersey.
- Josh: Sometimes things, they need to be said. And in those instances, being an asshole comes in handy.
- [last lines]
- Josh: [posing for group picture] Alright, posture everyone.
- Kate: [holding the camera] Uh, I'm going to need you to get a lot closer together than that.
- Sarah: Okay.
- Ben: Come on, come on.
- [arm around Alex]
- Josh: Alright. I'm going to pose a quick idea, you guys. Maybe next time we do this, it's a happy occasion.
- Alex: Is there going to be a next time?
- Isaac: Uh oh.
- Sarah: Alex...
- Kate: Okay. One, two...
- Josh: I taught you all of Calc 21 and then you went off and did better than me on the exam; I'm not teaching you how to chop wood.
- Isaac: So, what are we making, Sarah?
- Sarah: We are making chilled watermelon soup and sea scallop risotto.
- Josh: What? What are we making again?
- Sarah: I'm sorry, can you do something helpful?
- Josh: Did you say risotto?
- Sarah: Can you please do something helpful?
- Josh: The joint is not going to roll itself, Sarah. And I am making a magical appetizer dish that is going to make your risotto taste so much better.
- [first lines]
- Night Editor: [entering] Ben. Your page's set?
- Ben: Mm, yep. Almost.
- [looking at picture]
- Ben: Jesus, Alex.
- [answering the phone]
- Ben: Hello? Yes, this is him, but I'm at work. So...
- Josh: [now answering his phone] Used to have a freshman roommate named "Ben", but that ass-wad hasn't called me in ages. What?
- Sarah: [on her phone] And no one was there? He was... Alone? Yeah, of course he was alone. That was stupid. Yeah, I can probably get up in a couple hours. I just need a little bit of time to get out of here.
- [more work gets set on her desk]
- Isaac: [walking while on his phone] Well, he's gonna be okay. That's the most important thing. Okay.
- [checking incoming call]
- Isaac: I gotta take this. Hang on a sec... Babe? Yeah, I'm fine. Just got to the office - I'm gonna leave from there.
- Alex: I guess I was mainly just scared.
- Sarah: Of what?
- Alex: Of you all. The possibility that you didn't like me.
- Sarah: That's ridiculous.
- Alex: It's the truth. I remember that that feeling did not go away. Until, um, until junior year when Ben had me at his parents' place for Easter. We took the train there and back. Barely talked, but you know, it was, it was better than talking. It was just... Just nice.
- Ben: [narrating] There are three stages of finding friends in college. The first is desperation. Second is panic. The third is fate. When you wind up at the same table together somehow, then your real life begins.
- Alex: Hey, um... I'm sorry about what I said last night. I'm...
- Kate: It's okay. Don't worry. You're not even 48 hours removed from a traumatic event. You're suddenly the center of love and attention and you're feeling mildly manic and also oddly angry. I imagine you're also experiencing mood-cycling and you're scared as hell of the next time you'll crash, so, no. I'm not taking it personally.
- Alex: Good.
- Kate: Don't worry, though. You'll level off.
- Sarah: You know what i want? I want you to have acted like my boyfriend seven years ago. taken me to a movie, bought me a fucking ice cream cone. That's what i want. Instead of being the guy who permanently fucked up my expectations for normalcy in a relationship. the guy that made me explain to my mom "No, Josh isn't my boyfriend, he's just someone that sleeps with me when he comes home pining for my best friend to drunk to see straight."
- Ben: When good things happen, we always wanna imagine them as fated. But when bad things happen, we curse the world as this cold and brutally random place.