- Margaret: Oh Bobby, would you stop over at Kessler's later and pick me up some chicken feed?
- Jenny: Sure he will! As long as Amy Kessler's gonna be there... 'Emo Amy' as I like to call her.
- Bobby: She's not emo.
- Jenny: She's SO emo, even her HORSES are emo! She combs their forelocks all down over their eyes.
- [Jenny mockingly pulls strands of her hair down in front of her own eyes and makes an exaggerated depressed face. Bobby, annoyed, flings a meatball at her with the handle of his fork]
- Jenny: [in a snotty voice] really?
- Amy Kessler: [about the 'Hollow Man' poem] You know this poem?
- Stranger: Where I come from? We call that a dumb question.
- Bobby: [suspicious] Where DO you come from?
- Stranger: [politely ignores Bobby's question] ... Do you know what that poem's about? The end of the world. I wonder why a lot of folks get so... edgy... about that. The end of the world, I mean... it'd be quiet. Nice and quiet.
- [the strange man takes a quarter from his pocket and spins it on the cash counter. All three kids watch in captivated fascination until the stranger abruptly slaps the quarter down flat, ending the noise. The kids all jump back, startled]