- Robbie Palmer: [to Ruthie] I never said you were a sneaky person. I said you were sneaking cookies. That's all.
- Ruthie Camden: But you still think I'm sneaky.
- Robbie Palmer: I don't think you're sneaky. I think you're cute. And I think the name "Snooky" suits you... and I like the sound of it even if you never snuck a cookie. And I like having a special name for you because you and I have a special relationship. I never had a little sister. I think you're great.
- Simon Camden: [to his Social Studies class] I don't feel safe at school, and I'm tired of waiting for everyone else to make our school safe for us. You know, every time there's a shooting, we hear that the shooter was someone who felt that there was a score to settle, and it's always someone who felt they had to shoot someone to get even. You know, that's a weird concept. Some calls you a name, so you kill them? But the name-callers are relentless. You know they are and like a pack, they engage others in their hunt to destroy the already vulnerable students. They're torturing people and you know what? We allow it. We hear them, we don't speak up. Or worse, we hear them, we join in. If not in the hallways, on the internet. The teasing that isolates one student or a couple of students from the rest of us has to stop. And I think the only way it's going to, is if we stop ourselves. The issue is not who's to blame. The issue is who's going to take the responsibility. Why don't we claim responsibility? I mean, after all we're the one with the really power here. We have the power to change people's lives. We have the power to save people's lives. So I say we claim that power. Seize the day. You know, there are always going to be cliques in high school, there are always gonna be the popular students and the not-so-popular students. There are always gonna be winners and losers, teasers and the teased. But I think it's time for the mean and the cruel to be silenced by our insistence before they or any of us is silenced by a gun. You know, because we don't know who's on the brink. We can't know who's merely threatening retaliation and who's actually is capable of carrying out a threat. What we do know... is that we can make a difference.
- Annie Camden: [to Robbie] Ruthie asked me to tell you not to call her Snooky anymore.
- Robbie Palmer: I thought she liked it. What happened?
- Annie Camden: Well, Lucy told her that you calling her Snooky is a polite way of calling her "sneaky."
- Robbie Palmer: That's not it at all.
- Annie Camden: Well, then you better go tell her. She's pretty upset. She likes you a lot.
- Robbie Palmer: Are you kidding? She loves me!
- Annie Camden: I know.
- [starts crying and hugs Robbie]
- Annie Camden: We all love you. We do!
- Simon Camden: [to Mick] Those guy are losers, man. You know that.
- Mick: Yeah, I know that. That's why I'm gonna blow 'em away.
- Simon Camden: I beg your pardon?
- Mick: Hey, you said it yourself, right? I mean one day, they're gonna push me too far and I'm gonna blow 'em away.
- Simon Camden: But you don't mean that?
- Mick: Yeah... I do. I can't take it anymore.
- Simon Camden: [to Mick] Shooting people won't solve your problems.
- Mick: Right, should I just let... uh, what's it called, their teasing. Yeah, I should let all their teasing roll off my back.
- Simon Camden: It's better than shooting people.
- Simon Camden: [to his family] What is wrong with everyone? What's with all the teasing and the name-calling? Why do we have to keep doing that? You know what, I'm sick of it. I can't take it anymore.
- Ruthie Camden: I just want to know what happened.
- Lucy Camden: The way you're always sneaking around, I'm surprised you don't know already. In fact, that's what your nickname should be. Sneaky. Not Snooky, but Sneaky.
- Ruthie Camden: I'm not sneaky!
- Lucy Camden: Yes, you are, and I think Robbie was trying to tell you that in a nice way.
- Ruthie Camden: No, he wasn't! He doesn't think I'm sneaky. He was teasing me.
- Lucy Camden: Yeah, but why do you think he was teasing you? Maybe he was trying to point something out to you. Good night, Sneaky!
- [turns over and goes to sleep; Ruthie's eyes fill up with tears]
- Lucy Camden: When you marry someone, you marry their family and I didn't marry Jeremy because I didn't marry his family.
- Annie Camden: So you quit school and came home.
- Lucy Camden: Maybe I'm not cut out for the ministry.
- Annie Camden: Because?
- Lucy Camden: Because his family teased me relentlessly for being a goody-good-two-shoes. They called me Mother Teresa.
- Annie Camden: She was a great woman.
- Lucy Camden: I am not Mother Teresa. I offer what I said to Ruthie as proof. I should only hope to do one thing as great as any of the millions of things Mother Teresa ever did. They drink, they smoke pot and they throw a lot of parties, and yet... I liked them. I don't approve of how they live their lives, but I liked them. I like everybody. They just didn't like me. I kinda got kicked out.
- Annie Camden: How could anyone tease my baby for being good?
- Lucy Camden: It's hardly a Camden world out there.
- Guy #1: [to Simon] What's with you, Camden?
- Guy #2: I don't care what's with him.
- [to Simon]
- Guy #2: Just don't embarrass us like that again.
- Guy #3: Or we might shoot you.
- Simon Camden: [to a teacher] Excuse me. You had to have just heard that. You did, didn't you? You heard the whole thing and then you just, what, hid in your classroom?
- Teacher: Students aren't the only targets, Simon.
- Simon Camden: Well, can't you at least talk to their parents?
- Teacher: I have. The parents are just like them.
- Simon Camden: So what are we gonna do about this?