- Puff: Now, I'm going to borrow the living thing inside you and place it INSIDE Jackie Paper. Your living thing. You wonder what it is? It is that what causes you to laugh and to cry and to care. It is that which makes apples crunchy and tells your nose to tingle on a crystal winter's morning. It's kept in your left ear, you know.
- Puff: I'm one of few dragons ever to have a song. That is because, instead of destroying things, I try to muddle through.
- Puff: [attempting to return a fallen star to the sky, the boat fails to fly] Too heavy. We'll have to unload some ballast: me.
- [jumps into the water]
- Puff: Take her up.
- Jackie: Alone? I can't. I'm afraid.
- Puff: JACKIE! Believe in yourself. Have the courage to try. You may fail, but atleast you have made the effort.
- Tall Doctor: Ahem, we have concluded our consultation, and being of one mind...
- Short Doctor: The best in all medicine, may we add.
- Bald Doctor: We have come to the conclusion that your son...
- Tall Doctor: Will not, nor can not...
- Short Doctor: Speak, communicate, nor indeed...
- Bald Doctor: Relate in any way to the world around him.
- Jackie's Father: But doctors, we know that. He hasn't said a word in such a long time.
- Mother: Can't you give us some hope that he will finally speak?
- Tall Doctor: Alas, the case is hopeless.
- Short Doctor: Of course, one could always hope for... a miracle.
- Tall Doctor, Bald Doctor: But we frown on that.
- Pirate: [has become a baker] I'm a new man! No no no no, I'm an old man with a NEW heart. Thanks to both of you, and God speed! I'll send you a fruitcake next Christmas!
- Jackie: [singing] Weave, weave, weave me the sunshine out of the falling rain. Weave me the hope of a new tomorrow and fill my cup again.