- Castiel: [to Sam and Dean on his cell phone, looking at a sign in his motel room] Honor bar. What's honorable about a miniature bar in a motel room?
- Dean Winchester: [with a smile] Everything.
- Buxom Lass: [On TV] Sometimes, you need a break from the hustle and bustle of city life. #amiright Sometimes, you need #casaerotica. Casa erotica.
- Castiel: ...That's inappropriate
- Metatron: Here. I know it's a bit of a retcon, but it's gonna make this whole conversation a lot easier.
- [He presses his fingers to Cass's forehead]
- Metatron: I just gave you every book, movie, and TV show I have consumed in the last couple of millennia. Now do you understand that the universe is made up of stories, not atoms?
- Castiel: [Still a little confused] I understand that that's a quote by Muriel Rukeyser.
- Metatron: What makes a story work? Is it the plot, the characters, the text? The subtext? And who gives a story meaning? Is the writer? Or you? Tonight, I thought I would tell you a little story and let you decide.
- Gabriel: [Phone message to Sam and Dean] Hey, what's up, shorties? Remember me, the guy who died for your sins? No, not the cat with the beard and sandals... the hot one.
- Gadreel: Good afternoon.
- Shopkeeper: [Clearly stoned] It's afternoon?
- Gadreel: I wonder if I may procure from you the feathers of a Griffin.
- Shopkeeper: Uh, we got some off-the-menu items, but, uh, this ain't Diagon Alley, man.
- Metatron: This is "The Curious Incident," eh, inspector Gregory?
- Castiel: Who?
- Metatron: Inspector Gregory. Sherlock Holmes.
- [Cass is still confused]
- Metatron: "Silver Blaze"?
- [Gets nothing, rolls his eyes]
- Metatron: You have been around since scaly things crawled out of the muck. Would it have killed you to pick up a book, watch a movie?
- Gadreel: Do you also have fairy bones? It does not matter what realm they were from.
- Shopkeeper: Griffins and fairies... the hell you hunting, man?
- Gadreel: Family.
- Metatron: What writer doesn't love a good twist? My job is to set up interesting characters and see where they lead me. The by-product of having well-drawn characters is... They may surprise you. But I know something they don't know... the ending. How I get there doesn't matter as long as everybody plays their part.
- Dean Winchester: What if there is a stairway to heaven? We find it and get a drop on the guy.
- Sam Winchester: You want to sneak onto the Death Star, take out the Emperor?
- Castiel: Okay I... I'm not sure what a fictional battle station in space has to do with this, but if taking out the emperor means taking out Metatron, I'm on board.
- Dean Winchester: [Exchanging surprised looks with Sam] Wait, did you... did you just understand a Death Star reference?
- Castiel: Yeah, I think so. But I don't understand what that has to do with Heaven.
- Sam Winchester: ...It's halfway, I guess.
- Castiel: Metatron is trying to play God.
- Sam Winchester: Play God? Cas, he erased angel warding. He friggin' blew out Holy Fire. He *is* God.
- Dean Winchester: Why are you doing this?
- Metatron: Because I can. Because you and your little brother and your fine, feathered friend and all those secrets you've got locked away in your bunker can't stop me. But I am gonna enjoy watching you try. It's gonna be a hell of a show.
- Dean Winchester: Word around the campfire is, you let the snake into the Garden, ruined it for all humanity.
- Gadreel: I set them free. I loved humanity!
- Dean Winchester: Well, you sure got got a funny way of showing it, asshat.