- Angel Moldonado: You think I'm a fool? That's rude, man. You're being disrespectful and rude.
- Matthew 'Matt' Scudder: Rude? Come on, you were rude all over the fucking street with Sunny, weren't you? Rude?
- Angel Moldonado: Let me explain something to you, what happend to Sunny, man. What happened to her, is people think that if you have to kill somebody in the course of... doing business, sometimes it pays to advertise. You know, make it messy. Remind people they bleed when they die. It might even prevent more killings.
- Matthew 'Matt' Scudder: You're a real humanitarian.
- Angel Moldonado: I am.
- Joe Durkin: The murder rate used to be a thousand a year. Three a day, and that was high. Now it's five. Higher in the summer. Fourteen, two Fridays ago. We get the death penalty six, seven times a day, only it's not for murderers, it's for ordinary citizens.
- Matthew 'Matt' Scudder: Yeah, there are eight million stories in the naked city. Remember that old TV show? What we have in this town is eight million ways to die.
- Sarah: [to Scudder] You're just an opportunistic prick who'd fuck mud if it'd move a little and not argue too much.
- Matthew 'Matt' Scudder: You have quite an education, haven't you?
- Sarah: Anyone who gets past the age of two has an education.
- Angel Moldonado: OK, OK, OK. My fault. I'm sorry. I didn't get laid today.
- Matthew 'Matt' Scudder: Well, we've all got our problems.
- Sunny: [to Matt] What are you doing in a bar if you're trying not to drink?
- [her body up close]
- Sunny: You like making it *hard* on yourself?
- Matthew 'Matt' Scudder: [to bartender] Gimme a Coke!
- bartender: Right, Matt.
- Sunny: [tries stroking him intimately, shakes her head:] Don't be nervous.
- Matthew 'Matt' Scudder: [smiles] No, I'm not nervous.
- Sunny: [folds her arms, chuckles:] I guess I'm a little nervous.
- Sarah: [in car, smirks:] You liked that.
- Matthew 'Matt' Scudder: Liked what?
- Sarah: Roughing me up.
- Matthew 'Matt' Scudder: 'Roughing up'? Hitting you is roughing you up? You like to see what 'roughing up' is?
- Sarah: This is kidnapping, you lush!
- Matthew 'Matt' Scudder: Look, we've been trading accusations here. For a half-assed hooker, you're an extremely arrogant woman, you know that? What you said back there about Sunny being a hopeless victim, makes me wanna...
- Sarah: Rough me up?
- Matthew 'Matt' Scudder: Just answer the question, will you?
- Sarah: [snaps] What question?
- Matthew 'Matt' Scudder: About Moldonado and Willie.
- Sarah: All I know is that they have been trying to get Chance to go into business with them for as long as I can remember.
- Matthew 'Matt' Scudder: What do you mean? In what way?
- Sarah: [snaps] I don't know exactly. Use the club. Sell drugs.
- [shakes her head]
- Sarah: Who are you laughing at?
- Matthew 'Matt' Scudder: You remind me of my ex-wife. She wouldn't bet on a fixed fight either.