Lois: You know what you need? A pick-me-up.
Clark: Thanks, Lois, but I don't think playing quarterback is going to make my day.
Lois: Depends on the cheerleader.

Lois: Come on, did you forget? Tomorrow's our Smallville High reunion.
Clark: Did you say "our" reunion?
Lois: Yes.
Clark: You were enrolled there for, like...
Lois: Twenty-three days.
Clark: You showed up for five.
Lois: That's a record in my book.

Lois: (to Clark) And you... you put the Smallville in Smallville... Smallville.

Brainiac 5: The problem is, Kal-El, you and I aren't very different. We were both created in one way or another by Jor-El. Both intended to save civilizations, to bring peace to a brutal world. But neither of us was immune to corruption, to darkness.

Brainiac 5: Why won't you forgive yourself?
Clark: He didn't have a choice. He's my father, of course he'd sacrifice anything to protect me.
Brainiac 5: We always have a choice, Kal-El. Your father didn't have to care for you the way he did. Yet still he made that choice every day he was with you. He chose to be your protector. Just as you've chosen to be the Earth's protector. Nobody forced that on you, yet you embraced it. Nobody made that choice for you. We all chose our own fate.

Brainiac 5: The darkness is the past. And you hold onto it and you dwell. You punish yourself and everyone around you for past mistakes.
Clark: I don't have the privilege of mistakes. Even if we don't expect perfection, the rest of the world does. You heard what they said.
Brainiac 5: Then help Oliver be who he can be. Today, tomorrow. Be there for him now, and stop punishing him for his past with your silence and your distance. Let it go.

Maddy: Wait. So, you're not hitched to Clark?
Lois: Not exactly.
Maddy: Are you engaged?
Lois: No.
Maddy: Oh. How long have you been seeing each other?
Lois: Well, we're... not, really. Right now.
Maddy: So, you're the moth, not the flame.

Clark: I guess you're right. I've been so buried by the mistakes of my past, so worried about the responsibilities of the future, I lost sight of the present.
Brainiac 5: A hero is made in the moment. Not from questioning the past or fearing what's to come.

Clark: You were right, Dad. I never stopped blaming myself for what happened to you. It was a way not to let go. It's exactly what I have to do to move on. To get rid of the darkness of my past I've been carrying around. To be there for the people who need me now. You said to hold on to Smallville, and I will, I will never forget. Because you'll be with me no matter where I go. I have to say the one thing I never could. Goodbye, Dad. I promise to be the man you know I could be.

TV Reporter: I think our audience would like some answers.
Oliver: I lost someone. She meant everything to me.
TV Reporter: So, for that you want, what, a merit badge and special rights?
Oliver: No. No, you're right, I'm not special. This isn't about who I am, it's about what I do. And--and I don't think I'm the first rich boy who felt that way. It was John F. Kennedy who once said, "Ask not who what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
TV Reporter: So now you're comparing yourself to a fallen hero of this country?
Oliver: Well, why not? He saw the hero in all of us. I'm not dwelling on revenge for past atrocities, or looking ahead to what I can gain from a few tax breaks. Drilling oil wells in the ocean, putting up razor wire fences to keep out immigrants who only want what our grandparents wanted. In this world of armchair bloggers who created a generation of critics instead of leaders, I'm actually doing something. Right here, right now, for the city. For my country. And I'm not doing it alone. You're damned right I'm a hero.

Lois: A couple of more hugs, and maybe you'll have the "bah, humbugs" squeezed out of you.

Ebenezer Scrooge, the main character in A Christmas Carol, uses the expression "Bah, humbug!" when describing Christmas.

Lois: Neither of us are primed for Dancing With the Stars.

Dancing With the Stars is a TV series found in several different countries. In it, stars team up with professional dancers in an elimination contest.