- Marissa: [walks into model home as Ryan lights it with candles. Hallelujah is playing] This song reminds me of you.
- Ryan: I thought you were with Luke.
- Marissa: I was.
- [hesitates]
- Marissa: I don't know why I'm here, I just wanted to see you... I mean, you're leaving tomorrow!... and what if I never... we never... maybe I could spend the night? Just to hang out...
- Ryan: You can't stay. If you stay, if we spend the night... I... I don't know that I could leave.
- Marissa: Well, then don't!
- Ryan: Ya, and you'll go back to school in the fall, and I'll just what? Hang around here? Hiding like some ghost? Cops find me and I'll have to disappear again?
- [moves closer]
- Ryan: We're from different worlds.
- Marissa: [takes a deep breath] That's not true.
- Ryan: I'm not like you. Go. Please... go.
- Luke Ward: Shut up, queer.
- Seth Cohen: Well, at least I don't shave my chest.
- Luke Ward: What'd you say?
- Marissa Cooper: Luke, come on.
- Seth Cohen: I just said you look nice in a sweater vest. It was a compliment.
- Ryan: What kind of music do you listen to?
- Marissa: Right now, punk.
- Seth: Yeah, I am sorry, but Avril Lavigne doesn't count as punk.
- Marissa: Oh yeah? Well, what about the Cramps? Stiff Little Fingers? The Clash? Sex Pistols?
- Seth: I listen to the same music as Marissa Cooper? I think I have to kill myself.
- Seth: Dad, I'm sure Ryan's fine. We should just try again when it's light out.
- Sandy: Could be too late by then.
- Seth: Yeah, well, maybe he's better off on his own, anyways.
- Sandy: What does that mean?
- Seth: Okay, if we find him, then what? Then, if he's very lucky he gets to go back with his mom? I would run away, too.
- Sandy: What was he even doing there? Why didn't you tell us?
- Seth: Because he didn't want to go to a foster home. He didn't want to leave and I didn't want him to leave either. It's like, you force me to live amongst these-these pod people and the first cool person I meet, it's like, you kick him out of the house.
- Sandy: I did the best I could.
- Seth: So did I
- Marissa: I mean, what did I ever do to you?
- Seth: Nothing, Marissa. I've lived next door to you forever and you've never done or said anything to me.
- Marissa: Oh, my God, you're the one who never talks to me. You think you're so much better than everyone.
- Seth: I do? Well, if you're talking about Luke, then yes, because that guy shaves his chest.
- Sheriff: So, you have no idea where Ryan might have gone?
- Seth: I don't know. He did say something about going down to Mexico and gambling on cockfights. I mean, I don't know what kind of jurisdiction you guys...
- Sandy: Quit joking around. Will you answer his question?
- Seth: Yes, I did. I really don't know. I do not know the guy. I never got the chance.
- Marissa Cooper: [driving] Why won't you tell me where we're going? This is pretty far away.
- Seth: Oh, wow, complaining. That's - that's very interesting, considering nobody invited you.
- Marissa Cooper: Before I came along, you were on a skateboard.
- Seth: Ah! Ah!