"[about her stepmother] It turns out cremation costs just as much as the non-torching method. If I don't come up with a cheaper solution, I'm gonna end up a bag lady. Of course, I'll have alligator bags."

"The passion burns deep."

"The heat this summer is at Saint Elmo's Fire."

"Come sit down and chillax."

"You can always count on your friends. Don't ever let the fire go out."

"I don't know why you're both so worried... So, I bop him for a couple of years, get his job when he gets his hands caught in the vault, do a black mink ad, retire in utter disgrace, then write a best seller and be a fabulous host on my own talk show..."

"Jenny Wright - Felicia"

"[to Leslie] Leslie, did I tell you? I'm sorry. I went to see my boss. I thought I was getting fired. Instead, the man took me to dinner."

"Andie MacDowell - Dale Biberman"

"Who wants to suck back a few Bloody Marys at St. Elmo's, on me?"

"Joyce Van Patten - Mrs. Beamish"

"It is tomorrow."

"No diet works. The only way to lose weight in the thighs is amputation."

"I'm not afraid to commit. I have to have something for myself first before I can share it with you."

"I just wish everything could be like it used to be, all of us friends."

"[to Jules] So, you lost your job? I've lost twenty of them since graduation, plus a wife and kid, and, in a new development this morning, a handful of hair in the shower drain. [puts a blanket on her] That's better. You know, this smells to me like a little bit of self-created drama. I should know; I've been starring in a few of my own."

"We won't even remember this tomorrow."

"Jules, you know, honey... this isn't real. You know what it is? It's St. Elmo's Fire. Electric flashes of light that appear in dark skies out of nowhere. Sailors would guide entire journeys by it, but the joke was on them... there was no fire. There wasn't even a St. Elmo. They made it up. They made it up because they thought they needed it to keep them going when times got tough, just like you're making up all of this. We're all going through this. It's our time at the edge."

"Never trust a woman who says she isn't angry."

"You know, there are more people in law school right now than there are lawyers on the entire planet? Think about that."

"Hey! Hey, take your hands off my wife."

"You break my heart. Then again, you break everyone's heart."

"Mare Winningham - Wendy Beamish"

"[about Dale] She is the only evidence of God I have seen with the exception of the mysterious force that removes one sock from the dryer every time I do my laundry."

"There are several quintessential moments in a man's life: losing his virginity, getting married, becoming a father, and having the right girl smile at you."

"Andrew McCarthy - Kevin Dolenz"

"Rob Lowe - Billy Hicks"

"[to Jules] You know Jules, there is the brink of insanity and then there is the abyss, which obviously you have fallen into."

"[repeated line] Love sucks."

"I enjoy being afraid of Russia. It's a harmless fear, but it makes America feel better, Russia gets an inflated sense of national worth from our paranoia. How's that?"

"[to Leslie] Yeah, once. Junior high, I played bongos in this band and I fell in love with the lead singer. She sang "We've Only Just Begun" as sweet as Karen Carpenter. So, one night, I got high on this cheap malt liquor, and I pledged my love to her. And the next day she ran off with a bass player named Ringo. So, I turned in my bongos for a battered Underwood typewriter."

"[to Naomi] Well, for your information, I happen to be in love with someone, only they don't know it, okay?"

"Love, love, you know what love is? Love is an illusion created by lawyer types like yourself to perpetuate another illusion called marriage to create the reality of divorce and then the illusionary need for divorce lawyers."

"Do not hand that man a blowtorch."

"Judd Nelson - Alec Newbury"

"Join the club. You know, no one was buying this together-woman-of-the-eighties stuff anyway."

"You wanna know what's great? Last night, I woke up in the middle of the night to make myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and you know, it was my kitchen, it was my refrigerator, it was my apartment...and it was the BEST peanut butter and jelly sandwich that I have had in my entire life."

"[voiceover] I can't remember who met who first or who fell in love with who first. All I can remember is the seven of us always together."

"Emilio Estevez - Kirby "Kirbo" Keager"

"Martin Balsam - Mr. Beamish"

"Blowtorch, anyone?"

"Ally Sheedy - Leslie Hunter"

"I'm just so tired, Billy. Never thought I'd be so tired at 22."

"Demi Moore - Julianna "Jules" Van Patten"

"Jack Griffo — Billy"

"Mark Cuban — President Marcus Robbins"

"David Hasselhoff — Gilbert Grayson Shepard"

"Frankie Muniz — Lucas Stevens"