- Lab Attendant: I have here an opportunity--
- [holds out a pen to Michael]
- Lab Attendant: this pen is made of chemicals, but if I took these same chemicals and recombined them, I could make an automobile, or an electric light! The whole world is made of chemicals, Michael--you can make anything! And if you're smart... you'll make opportunities.
- Nick Laemle: Michael, are you ready to behave? I thought I'd tell you a little story? Want to hear a story? I'll tell you a little story and I want you to shut up until I'm finished.
- Michael Laemle: [Tied to a chair by his father] You eat people.
- Nick Laemle: I've been watching you, Michael. You're an outsider, you're not like them. You're like us.
- Michael Laemle: I don't love you any more.
- Lily Laemle: Yes, you do.
- Nick Laemle: We're bound for life, no matter how much you hate us.
- Nick Laemle: [as he slowly unties Michael] I'm untying, and when you're free, you can sit down with us and eat, or you could run outside and shout your little secret to the world. And you know what they'll do, Michael, hmm? They'll come here and they'll burn us. Is that what you want? You want to see them burn your parents?
- Lily Laemle: Mint jelly?