Eilis: I wish that I could stop feeling that I want to be an Irish girl in Ireland.
Father Flood: Homesickness is like most sicknesses. It will pass.
Eilis: I'd forgotten what this town is like. What were you planning to do, Miss Kelly? Keep me away from Jim? Stop me from going back to America? Perhaps you didn't even know. Perhaps it was enough for you to know that you could ruin me. My name is Eilis Fiorello.
Tony: OK, so while you're being amenable. Can we go see a movie this week? When you're not at night classes?
Eilis: I'll sign up for two movies.
Tony: Really?
Eilis: Yes. Even if the first date is a disaster, I'll give it another chance.
Diner Waiter: I hope that when I go through the pearly gates, the first sound I hear is you asking me for the bill in that lovely Irish brogue.
Tony: Home is home.
Georgina: Try and remember that sometimes it's nice to meet people who don't know your auntie.
Georgina: [about their ship cabin] This is hell. Never again.
Eilis: Never again to America?
Georgina: The mistake was coming home.
Sheila: Would I get married again? No, I want to be waiting outside the bathroom of my boarding-house forever. Of course, I do. That's why I go to that wretched dance every week. I want to be waiting outside my own bathroom, while some bad tempered fellow with hair growing out of his ears reads the newspaper on the toilet and I wish I was back here, talking to you.
Patty: There. That's better. Now you don't look like you've just come in from milking the cows.
Eilis: Is that what I looked like?
Patty: Just a bit. Nice clean cows. Let's go.
Diana: It's not politics, to talk about eye operations.
Mrs. Keogh: It is if the eyes belong to a politician.
Mrs. Keogh: I'll tell you this much: I am going to ask Father Flood to preach a sermon on the dangers of giddiness. I now see that giddiness is the eighth deadly sin. A giddy girl is every bit as evil as a slothful man, and the noise she makes is a lot worse. Now, enough.
Mrs. Keogh: [Preparing for a weekend at the beach] Diana's right, though, Eilis. You need to think carefully about your costume. It's the most Tony will ever have seen of you. You don't want to put him off.
Tony: Do you like Italian food?
Eilis: Don't know. I've never eaten it.
Tony: It's the best food in the world.
Eilis: Well, why would I not like it?
Laurenzio: You'll have to go to Ebbets Field if you want to see him in the Summer.
Eilis: They're that important to you?
Tony: Put it this way, if our kids end up supporting the Yankees or the Giants, it would break my heart.
