'Gilmore Girls' Revival: The Best Quotes

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"Wow. Winded!"

"Haven't done that for a while."

"Felt good."

Rory and Lorelai, getting into their fast-talking groove after a long absence

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"He's like a superhero, but his power is that you can't remember him no matter how much time you spend with him. Kind of like every Marvel movie ever."

Lorelai, destroying Rory's boyfriend Paul (and Marvel movies)

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"What are you doing?"

"Organizing my magazines by Kardashian."

Lorelai, explaining her magazine-sorting system to Luke

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"You know, some people might say drinking coffee in the middle of the night could hinder your sleep."

"People are dumb."

Lorelai shooting down Rory's insomnia musings

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"Grandma, it's so good to see you! How are you?"

"Well... I am a Gilmore."

Emily, responding to Rory's greeting in a very Emily way

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"You couldn't have just said he was well-read? 'My father, boy, did he love books! And stamps! Whoo, that stamp collection!'"

Rory, reacting to Lorelai's awkward funeral speech

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"Explain to me again who that person is."

"Oh, that I could."

Emily, asking Lorelai to explain Kirk... and Lorelai coming up empty

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"Don't stand there shaking. Just go. Apologize to your parents, and tell them you'll pay them back for the two semesters you spent studying Buffy the Vampire Slayer's effect on the feminist agenda!"

Paris, dressing down the Smith College graduate she's firing

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"So, Luke. How are the boys? I'm pretty good at visually sussing out the situation down there."

Paris, addressing Luke (and his testicles) at her fertility clinic

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"Could you say he felt you up at our Christmas party for the deposition?"

"No."

"But you're all I've got! Our nanny looks like Benicio Del Toro."

Paris, trying to get Rory to help her get the upper hand in her divorce from Doyle

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"I don't know how to do this."

"Do what?"

"Live my life."

Emily, feeling utterly aimless in a T-shirt and jeans (!)

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"There just aren't enough gays in Stars Hollow!"

"How is that possible?"

"We have such cute houses."

"And antique shops!"

Taylor, announcing the town's lack of an LGBT community, and the stunned reaction from the townsfolk

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"Hanging out is not permanent. Marriage is permanent."

"Marriage is permanent? Uh, Liz Taylor just rose from the grave to say, 'Whuuut?'"

Lorelai, questioning her mother Emily's logic during one of their joint-therapy sessions

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"It's kill or be killed. I'm not talking about The Art of War. No, that's a tiptoe through the tulips compared to what you'll find beyond these walls. Betrayal, deception... and that's just in the bedroom!"

Paris, terrifying a room full of Chilton students

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"Sorry, did I accidentally step into 2003?"

Francie, reacting to her former Chilton classmate Paris' Tristan-triggered breakdown

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"I'm just a big, fat Wookiee-humping loser with no future!"

Rory, bemoaning her lack of direction... and a one-night stand with a Star Wars cosplayer

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"We love everything Paul Thomas Anderson does!"

"We're the Thirtysomething Gang!"

Two overly cheerful members of the town's "Thirtysomething Gang," trying to recruit Rory

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"Hey yo look, I'm rapping!/Just like Hamilton!"

A performer in the Stars Hollow musical, eliciting an "Oy vey" from Lorelai

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"You will be so kind as to let RZA and Busta Rhymes know that they're not allowed to rap anymore?"

"How does he know those names?"

Taylor, shocking Gypsy with his extensive knowledge of hip-hop history

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"No, that's not how you and I work. We don't do the passive-aggressive thing. That's how you and your mother work."

Rory, ripping into her mother for overreacting to her book project

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"This adult stuff is hard, isn't it?"

Lane, comforting her lifelong friend Rory after her break-up with Logan

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"Everything in my life has something to do with coffee. I believe in a former life, I was coffee."

Lorelai, tying her Wild epiphany into her favorite beverage

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"Before this thing goes on, you gotta realize: The only way out is in a body bag."

"And now we don't have to write our vows."

Luke and Lorelai, as he slips an engagement ring on her finger

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"I can't spend any more time and energy on artifice and bullshit."

Emily, finally telling the DAR how she really feels

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"No. God no. No, no, no, no, no."

"So... no?"

"Sorry, but... no."

Lorelai, confirming to Emily that she does not want to buy the Gilmore estate

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"You don't move or change ever. There's a picture of you in the attic that Dorian Gray is consulting copyright lawyers about."

Lorelai, expressing shock over Emily's decision to start a new life in Nantucket

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"Just one note: Drop the 'The.' Just 'Gilmore Girls.' It's cleaner."

Lorelai, finding her inner Sean Parker while advising Rory on her book idea

gilmore-girls-just-a-journey

"It feels... right. Such a long time getting here... sometimes it's just a journey, you know?"

Lorelai, reflecting on her marriage to Luke (and the series in general)

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