- Nora: Well, if there's enough room for a chowder-head like you, then there's *more* than enough room for a dragon.
- Merle: [the Gogans have returned and want to take Pete away from Nora] Okay lady, we're gonna take him whether you like it or not. Right boys?
- Grover: Right, Pa. Willie, you grab onto Pete, while I hold onto her.
- Willie: You grab Pete, I wanna hold her.
- Grover: I wanna hold her!
- Willie: I'm gonna hold her!
- [Willie and Grover push each other]
- Merle: [separates them] Alright, I'll settle this: You two grab the brat, I'LL hold her.
- Lena Gogan: If you think you're gonna hold her, like my boys wanna hold her, you're gonna be holdin' your head, ya understand?
- Dr. Terminus: I hate Pa - pa - Pastahazootie, or whatever the name of this town is.
- Hoagy: Quoddy.
- Dr. Terminus: Yeah. I don't want to cure anybody here. They all deserve to have whatever they have.
- Grover: Hey Ma, w-why don't we get ourselves another orphan, huh?
- Lena Gogan: Because I done paid our last $50 for Pete, plus $.50 legal fees, and we ain't got another $50 plus legal, that's why. Ya understand?
- [Willie and Grover look at each other then shake their heads]
- Lena Gogan: Well, here's somethin' you *will* understand: you're gonna have to start workin' the farm with your own two hands, less'n you spot that little twerp!
- Pete: Where's Elliott?
- Lena Gogan: [comes out of the closet behind him and grabs him and messes up his hair] Nowhere! Your hokey pokey dragon is out helpin' Santa Claus pull his sled! Boys!
- Pete: Let me go!
- [Willie and Grover lift him up by his legs and Pete pounds on them and tries to get free]
- Lena Gogan: Now you're never gonna get away again! We're gonna put chains on ya when you're workin'!
- Merle: And when you're not workin'.
- Willie: And when you're sleepin'!
- Dr. Terminus: [talking to the Gogans after Elliott crashed their boat and they fell into the water and now they're sick] Excuse me folks, I witnessed what happened today and I'm completely sympathetic with you.
- Grover: [offensively] What's "sympathetic" mean?
- Pete: I can't sell you Elliot. I don't own him.
- Hoagy: Well what did you do, rent him?
- Dr. Terminus: Well who owns him?
- Pete: Well, nobody, I guess. He just came to me. He only goes to those who need him.
- Dr. Terminus: *I* need him!
- Nora: Listen Doc, I don't know what you're up to but you better forget about this. He's not for sale.
- Dr. Terminus: [passing Pete's brush over to Nora] Nora, go paint your lighthouse. Pete, my boy, you're conversant with Elliot! Now talk to him. Tell him how much I need him! Look, deliver Elliot to me the fiver is yours, plus a bottle of my medicine that's guaranteed to bring on puberty two years ahead of time. And that's better than a dragon!
- Dr. Terminus: Why do I hear a bell ringing?
- Hoagy: School must be out.
- Dr. Terminus: It's too early, stupid.
- Nora: [singing] Watch out, or I'll take you apart!
- Lena Gogan, Willie, Grover, Merle: [singing] We'd like to see you try it!
- Hoagy: [trying to tell Dr. Terminus about seeing Elliott for the first time]
- [stutters scarily]
- Hoagy: El- El- Dra- Dra...
- Dr. Terminus: What is an "El- El-, Dra- Dra-"?
- Dr. Terminus: [explaining the plan to capture Elliott to Hoagy] Got it?
- Hoagy: Got it. What I don't got is, how are you gonna get that monster, that hideous beast, that nightmare sent by the devil to come here?
- Dr. Terminus: Easy, we get someone he knows to bring him here.
- Hoagy: Who'd be crazy enough to do that?
- [Dr. Terminus stares at Hoagy]
- Hoagy: [screams] NOOOOO! NOOOOOO!
- Dr. Terminus: He knows you, he trusts you!
- Hoagy: He scares me! He hates ME!
- Nora: [singing] Welcome the dragon while you have a chance / give him his moment to rise up and dance!
- [first lines]
- Grover: Petey.
- Merle: Where'd he go?
- [when Elliott was flying up with Pete]
- Merle: He must have went that-a-way. Oh, Petey...
- [Owl Hooting]
- Merle: I'll wring his neck!
- Grover: Petey!
- Grover: Petey.
- [Hooting Continues]
- Pete: [Whispering] Elliott, put me down.
- Willie: Now, where is he?
- Merle: Look around.
- Lena Gogan: SPREAD OUT!
- Nora: Has anybody seen my Dad?
- [the townsmen points at him]
- Nora: Oh.
- Lampie: Nora! Please, My child! Come in!
- [goes inside the bar]
- Lampie: Get off that street.
- Nora: What's the matter.
- Lampie: Worst thing I ever saw in my life out there in the street.
- Nora: What was it?
- Lampie: [stammers] Oh, I-I don't wanna tell you for fear. It will scare you to DEATH!
- Nora: Scare me.
- [last lines]
- Pete: Goodbye, Elliott. Goodbye.
- Elliott: [waves goodbye in gibberish]
- Pete: [runs and waves to him, and Nora, Lampie, and Paul waves to him back]
- Paul: It is a dragon!
- Pete, Lampie, Nora: It's Elliott!
- [then Lampie and Pete laughs]
- Pete: [continues to talk to him] And remember, you're suppost to be Invisible!
- Dr. Terminus: [learning of Elliot's existence] Do you think this kid Pete would sell it?
- Hoagy: Money talks.
- Dr. Terminus: First there's a dragon, now he tells me money talks. Will miracles never cease?
- Lampie: you want to talk about reallistic look at you here you waiting for someone tocome back whose just not going to come back.
- Miss Taylor: That's a lie on top of another lie! Nothing but a whole network of lies! That's going to be another three more for your active imagination.
- [resumes hitting Pete's knuckles with a rod]
- Miss Taylor: Seven, Eight, and a Great Big Nine!
- [puts the rod down and throws a dunce cap on Pete]
- Miss Taylor: All right that Does It! You had a taste of the knuckle cracker. Now you're going to get the Behind Breaker!
- Nora: pauls ship went down hes not coming back i just have to adjust my life too it. i you need to make a big adjustment too. you have us now you have to make beleaves youre only freind is a dragon.
- Miss Taylor: [thinks Pete is the one ringing the school bell] Hey stop ringing that bell!
- Pete: I'm not ringing the bell
- Miss Taylor: [not believing him] Lier, Lier, Lier! Your ringing that bell on purpose!
- Pete: I'm not.
- Miss Taylor: Alright that's the knuckle cracker for you! That's three for lying and three for... For when the bell told.
- [grabs Pete by the arm, drags him inside and grabs a rod off the desk]
- Miss Taylor: Put your hands out knuckles closed fists down.
- [begins to wack Pete on his knuckles with the rod while counting to six]
- Lampie: A dragon I really saw a dragon. With his great big fin he will pushing right against the door so board up all the windows and get down on the floor