- Fred Noonan: Might be easier to shoot me.
- Amelia Earhart: Just lightening the load.
- Fred Noonan: You got room for 180 pounds of asshole?
- Gore Vidal: Why don't you marry my father? Then I won't be afraid of anything anymore.
- Amelia Earhart: I'm already married, to Mr. Putnam.
- Gore Vidal: Why can't you be married to Mr. Putnam and my father at the same time?
- Amelia Earhart: And what if it's not something I need to show the world? What if it's something I need to show me?
- George Putnam: After the Fourth, we're going home.
- Amelia Earhart: Where is that?
- George Putnam: For me? Anywhere you are.
- Amelia Earhart: Dreaming that someday I would go to those places, like a wayfarer, a traveler, a vagabond. I want to be free, George. To be a vagabond of the air.
- Amelia Earhart: You must know again my reluctance to marry, my feeling that I shatter thereby my life in flying, which means so much to me. In this connection, I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself now and then, for I cannot guarantee to endure at all the confinements of even an attractive cage. In our life together, I shall not hold you to any medieval code of faithfulness to me nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly. I must exact a cruel promise. And that is, you will let me go in a year if we find no happiness together.
- George Putnam: Only you, my dear Amelia, could say those brutal words to me and still have me wanting to be with you. Forever.
- Amelia Earhart: It all seems rather silly considering what's happening out there. Those men, all those families. Why have I been given so much?