Kate Beckett: Tell me what happened with Douglas Stevens.Richard Castle: I appealed to his humanity.Kate Beckett: I didn't think you had that side to you.Richard Castle: Well, when it comes to the people I love, I do.
Martha Rodgers: And you know, nothing you can say will change how we feel. What men don't understand is, the right clothes, the right shoes, the right makeup, just... It hides the flaws we think we have. They make us look beautiful to ourselves. That's what makes us look beautiful to others.Richard Castle: Used to be... all she needed to feel beautiful was a pink tutu and a plastic tiara.Martha Rodgers: We spend our whole lives trying to feel that way again.
Don't we usually get to the victim before the funeral?
Richard Castle: If I opened it, I was bound to be disappointed with whatever it was inside. If I never opened it, literally anything I imagined could be in there.Hayley Shipton: So you chose fantasy over reality.Richard Castle: Well, duh.Alexis Castle: But we're going to open in now, right?Richard Castle: Well, duh.