Jenny: If you never do anything, you never become anyone.
[from trailer]
Miss Stubbs: You seem to be old and wise.
Jenny: I feel old. But not very wise.
Jenny: The life I want, there is no shortcut.
Jenny: [Jenny's thoughts on sex] It's funny though, isn't it? All that poetry and all those songs, about something that lasts no time at all.
Jack: Knowing a famous author is better than becoming one. It shows you're connected.
[last lines]
Jenny: One of the boys I dated, and they were boys, suggested that we go to Paris and I said I'd always wanted to see Paris. As if I'd never been!
Jenny: I don't want to lose my virginity to a piece of fruit.
Jack: We have to have this out. Well, if you won't do it, I will. I'm still your father.
Jenny: You're my father again now, are you? And what were you when you encouraged me to throw my life away? Silly schoolgirls are always getting seduced by glamorous older men, but what about you two?
Helen: Someone told me that in about 50 years, no one will speak Latin, probably. Not even Latin people.
Headmistress: He's a Jew? You're aware, I take it, that the Jews killed our Lord?
Jenny: And you're aware, I suppose, that our Lord was Jewish?
Jenny: If people die the moment that they graduate, then surely it's the things we do beforehand that count.
David: Do you go to concerts?
Jenny: No. We don't believe in concerts.
David: Oh, I assure you, they're real.
Headmistress: [On Jenny's career opportunities] It doesn't have to be teaching. There's always the Civil Service.
[first lines]
Miss Stubbs: Come on, girls. Anybody?
[pauses]
Miss Stubbs: Anybody else?
[pauses]
Miss Stubbs: Jenny again.
Jenny: Isn't it because Mr. Rochester's blind?
Miss Stubbs: Yes, Jenny.
