- Dorine Douglas: You may think that once dead people are dead that that is the end of them. Not so. They leave memories, which are very much like dead people living inside of you.
- [first lines]
- Dorine Douglas: [reading] At Constant Consumer Magazine there is but one constant rule: get the job done. This can be hazardous, however, when the laws of economics effect our workplace and threaten to downsize us. For those of you who cannot keep pace with such changes, be forewarned: you will be terminated.
- [last lines]
- Dorine Douglas: If there is one thing I have learned, it is accepting my limitations while accentuating my strengths. A new job awaits me somewhere, perhaps in your office. I hope that we could get along.
- Kim Poole: Look, Norah, no one ever said you were gonna be popular after you joined the firing squad, so get over it already. That's the price for a promotion. Didn't that fancy college teach you anything?
- Dorine Douglas: [voiceover] It is true that to live inside a warm and nurturing environment is everybody's dream, but as we grow up we also need to experience independence and adventure.