- Billie Pike: How old are you?
- Willard Young: Ten. How old are you?
- Billie Pike: Nine. I thought you'd be bigger.
- Willard Young: Hey! Look who's talking, you midget. It just so happens I'm exactly the right size for my age. So why don't you just get lost?
- Billie Pike: You don't have to go crazy. It was just an observation.
- Billie Pike: How do you know dead people can't see us?
- Willard Young: Because I can't see them.
- Billie Pike: You can't see germs either.
- Willard Young: You can see them with a microscope.
- Billie Pike: Maybe nobody's ever invented a way to see ghosts yet.
- Billie Pike: Don't go in the water. It's gonna rain.
- Willard Young: So what?
- Billie Pike: If lightning strikes, we'll be fried like two bugs on a hot plate. That's what.
- Billie Pike: Do you have a lot of friends?
- Willard Young: Yeah. I'm the most popular kid on my block.
- Billie Pike: I figured. I don't have a lot of friends. People think I'm a show-off.
- Sally Pike: You know what the worst thing is about Billie? She's always right. She has the best instincts of anybody I ever met. God only knows where she got them.
- Willard Young: [Looking at a photo of Joan Collins] I think she's fat.
- Lily Reed: No, she's not fat, she's voluptuous.
- Willard Young: What does that mean?
- Lily Reed: That means that she's fat in all the right places.
- Willard Young: You mean her fried eggs?
- Lily Reed: Her what?
- Willard Young: That's what they look like to me.
- Lily Reed: [Chuckling] Yeah. I mean her fried eggs.
- Sally Pike: If I've spent my whole life falling in love with dreams that made my life miserable, then it just goes to follow that a guy I can't stand will make me happy.
- Ben Reed: Don't run away from things just because they scare you. If you do, you'll always be afraid. It's a bad way to live.
- Willard Young: I'm always afraid of things. I don't know why, but I am. And I just thought if I did something that really scared me, maybe I wouldn't be afraid anymore.
- Lily Reed: Did it work?
- Willard Young: Yeah... it did.