- Becky: Tell me what you want, as fast as it comes to you.
- Gilbert: Uhh...
- Becky: Okay?
- Gilbert: 'Kay.
- Becky: Okay. What do you want?
- [He's thinking about it]
- Becky: Faster!
- Gilbert: Okay. I want a new thing. House. I want a new house. And a family.
- [He sighs heavily]
- Gilbert: I want Momma to take aerobics classes. I want Ellen to grow up. I want a new brain for Arnie. I want...
- Becky: What do you want for you? Just for you?
- Gilbert: I want to be a good person.
- [Arnie jumps onto Gilbert's back]
- Gilbert: God, Arnie, you're getting so big. Pretty soon I ain't gonna be able to carry you no more.
- Arnie Grape: No, you're getting littler, Gilbert. You're getting littler, you're shrinking! You're shrinking, Gilbert, you're shrinking! Shrinking, shrinking, shrinking!
- Gilbert: You know what? You're such a big boy.
- Arnie: Yeah!
- Gilbert: You're such a big boy.
- Arnie: I'm a big boy!
- Gilbert: You know what? I bet you could do this all by yourself if you really wanted to. Could you do this by yourself?
- Arnie: I'm a big boy!
- Gilbert: Yeah, you're a big boy. Now take this...
- Arnie: Take this.
- Gilbert: Wash everything, your towels are there.
- Arnie: Okay!
- Gilbert: And your robe is there.
- Arnie: Okay! The big boy is gonna wash himself!
- Gilbert: We don't really move. I mean, we'd like to, but... my mom is sort of attached to the house. Attached is, I guess, not the right word. She's pretty much wedged in.
- Tucker: How's momma?
- Gilbert: She's fat.
- Tucker: Come on, man. She's not all that big, Gilbert.
- Gilbert: What?
- Tucker: Listen, I saw a guy at the state fair who was... a little bit bigger.
- Gilbert: A little bit bigger?
- Tucker: Look, all I'm sayin' is that she's not the biggest I ever seen, okay?
- Gilbert: Tucker, she's a whale!
- Tucker: Well, take her out for a walk once in a while.
- Gilbert: Take her out for a jog!
- Arnie: She's a whale! Tucker, she's a whale!
- Mr. Lamson: What's going on over there at "Food Land"?
- Gilbert: [labeling price tags on cans] I wouldn't know, I don't shop there.
- [puts a can up and looks at boss]
- Gilbert: I'd rather die.
- [smiles]
- Becky: It's a praying mantis. Do you know how they mate? The male will sneak up on the female and she'll bite off his head and the rest of his body will keep on mating and when they're done... She'll eat him. She'll eat the rest of him.
- Gilbert: I know a boy whose name is Arnie... he's, uh, 'bout to turn 18 and have a big party. I know a boy whose name is Arnie. C'mon down, buddy.
- Gilbert: Ellen? Ellen?
- Ellen Grape: What?
- Gilbert: Could you not talk with your mouth full?
- Ellen Grape: Excuse me?
- Gilbert: You're making me sick, I'm gonna throw up.
- Ellen Grape: Oh, okay, dad. Sure thing, dad.
- Arnie: [In the middle of Mr. Carver's funeral] Gilbert, it's the Burger Barn! It's the Burger Barn, Gilbert, the Burger Barn!
- Betty Carver: Hey. I could have had any guy, any guy, but I chose you. I chose you.
- Gilbert: Why did you?
- Betty Carver: [pause] Because... I knew you'd always be there. Because I knew you'd never leave.