- Paddy Button: I remember the day my poor father was buried. Not a cow was milked in the village, not an egg gathered, for six whole days. It took them all of that to sober up.
- Emmeline Foster: Why are you sitting in this old tree?
- Michael Reynolds: I'm thinking.
- Emmeline Foster: You're always thinking nowadays. I don't think because I don't remember anything to think about.
- Michael Reynolds: Well that's nothing to be proud of, is it?