- Mary's Father: Well, you can't deny it's an interesting area.
- Mary: It's an interesting area?
- Mary's Father: Yeah, I've been looking into it. Did you know that if you take every single person killed in a terrorist attack around the world in the last twenty years, and you add to that every life lost in the Middle East since 1967, the 6 day war, and you add to this every single American life lost in Vietnam and Korea, and every single American engagement since then - Iraq, Afghanistan, if you take all those lives, and you multiply it by two? That's the number of children who died of malaria every single year.
- Mary: I do want to ask you if I can take George out of school, take him away, and teach him myself and have an adventure. You know, I just think he'll do better with me than in the hands of the people who are teaching him now.
- Peter: Honey, can't we just take him away for the summer, like normal people?
- Mary: No, that's two months away. We'll lose him inside his computer by then. You know, and in the school, they didn't even know that those kids were bullying him.
- Ben: [reading a letter that has just arrived] They said yes. They thought I was brilliant.
- Martha: It doesn't actually say that, does it?
- Ben: Well, no, but it implies it. the implication of every word is they think I'm totally brilliant.
- Martha: [taking the letter from Ben and reading out loud a passage] "Thank you for your application, which we have accepted."
- Mary: I want to be an extraordinary mom. And to be an extraordinary mom, I have to, at some point, do something extraordinary.
- Mary: [asking Martha about her son] So what was he doing? Volunteering? A job?
- Martha: Well, it was a bit of both, really. He'd been to university, but the daft thing spent most of his time either playing rugby or chasing girls. Got no marks in his exams at all, so, um, to make the most of a bad job, he thought, "I know. I'll go and teach in Africa. That'll be interesting." And he completely fell in love with it. But then he made his big mistake.