- Tess: Let me guess: rock'n'roll is dead and the Angel of Death has come to bring us the glad tidings.
- Monica: [of cemeteries] If people knew what was waiting for them, they wouldn't make these places so sad.
- Tess: Well, grieving is a very powerful thing, Miss Wings. It's a good thing. It's a healthy thing. It's a healing thing. And it helps you get rid of a lot of pain. But It's something you should go through, not something you should hold onto.
- Monica: I don't understand why human beings hold onto things that hurt.
- Tess: Well, it's like if you give up the pain, you give up the person you've lost. It's a hard lesson, but there's only one way to learn it.
- Dylan Mateos: I'm sorry, if you're making a delivery go to the service entrance; no autographs or pictures, please; and if you haven't announced yourself at the gate I must ask you to leave.
- Tess: I am your new nanny.
- Dylan Mateos: I didn't have an old nanny.
- Tess: Well, you got a new one now. Let me talk to your mother.
- Dylan Mateos: I'm sorry, if you're making a delivery go to the service...
- Tess: Back off... and get your mama.
- Dylan Mateos: OK...
- Tess: ...And what are you snickering at?
- Monica: You have such a wonderful way with children, Tess. They respond so well to you.
- Tess: You keep that up and watch how I respond to *you*, Miss Wings.
- Dylan Mateos: God is dead.
- Tess: Says who?
- Dylan Mateos: My dad.
- Tess: Is that so; well, I'd like to see his research.
- Monica: How can you be mad at someone if they're dead?
- Dylan Mateos: Your mom?
- Monica: God.
- Dylan Mateos: I happen to know that He's alive and kicking.
- Monica: You can't send a letter to Heaven.
- Dylan Mateos: Sure you can. You don't even need paper; you could write it with your heart.
- Monica: That's the dumbest thing I ever heard.
- Dylan Mateos: You want to believe it, though, don'cha?
- Dylan Mateos: Monica says when you're mad you should write a letter to God.
- Samantha Mateos: That is so lame.
- Tess: Well, lame or not, it would do you good; you'd be surprised at what He can write back.
- Dylan Mateos: Ya gotta have good handwriting, though.
- Monica: God is not dead. He doesn't die just because you say so in a song. But a part of you dies every time you tell yourself that.
- Monica: You can't worship something that's not greater than yourself.
- Jon Mateos: Evie *was* greater.
- Monica: Evie was a wonderful, loving, caring, and very human being. And she knew that. That's why she cared so much about the songs you sing. But the only hope finally left to a human in this world is denied every time you glorify darkness, or dance on a grave, or-or ridicule your Creator. Evie knew the power your music has to take hope away from your public, from you children, even from yourself.