- Steven Keaton: You know what I was doing while I drove home from the station?
- Elyse Keaton: Watching the road, I hope.
- Steven Keaton: Counting... Counting all the times you and I have stayed up all night nursing one of the kid's fevers. Guess how many.
- Elyse Keaton: Couldn't begin to.
- Steven Keaton: Well, go ahead, try.
- Elyse Keaton: 17.
- Steven Keaton: That's right. How'd you know?
- Elyse Keaton: I don't know. I guess after all our years together, I-I can read your mind.
- Steven Keaton: Guess you can. What am I thinking now?
- Elyse Keaton: You're thinking there's no place like home?
- Steven Keaton: You're very good at this, you know? You should set up a booth on the boardwalk.
- Elyse Keaton: And you're thinking about our life together and... and everything we've been through. And how hard it would be to turn your back on that, however tempting it might be.
- Steven Keaton: Has it been that obvious?
- Elyse Keaton: The words "open book" mean anything to you?
- Steven Keaton: Sorry, Elyse, I've been acting like a real child.
- Elyse Keaton: No. No, you haven't. You... you've been acting like a grown man facing midlife. I-I'll probably act the same way when I get to be your age.