- Bug: I am the condor. The Keeper of the Souls. I eat death for breakfast. I live in a house of blood and I accept that. That's all a man can do. I was ready to be arrested that night. I wasn't ready for what happened instead. Leah had told them everything and I was celebrated as a hero. Alex Dunkelman killed his stepfather, a cop, a mother, and five of the Riverton Seven. And I alone had stopped him from killing more. I didn't feel like a hero at all. But if it makes Riverton feel safe at night, I'll fake that I'm their hero. And I'll fake it good. Alex wouldn't have it any other way.
- Brandon: [on cell phone] Brittany, look, I know you're there. I can hear you walking. I understand that you don't want to talk. I probably disgust you. It's okay. I disgust myself sometimes. I know I'm a pig. I can't help it. No, pigs are nicer. Actually, I'm just what you said. I'm a fucking crotch dog. I'm sorry.
- The Ripper: [the Ripper's voice appears on the other line] It's too late to be sorry.
- Brandon: Who is this?
- The Ripper: Someone from your past. You wouldn't remember.
- Brandon: Put Brittany on, please.
- The Ripper: She's not here.
- Brandon: Well, where is she?
- The Ripper: Where you're going to go.
- Brandon: I'm gonna go to the church.
- The Ripper: No, you're not.
- Brandon: What do you mean, "No, I'm not?"
- The Ripper: Think hotter.
- Brandon: Miami?
- The Ripper: Try hell!
- [the Ripper appears behind him]
- The Ripper: [the Ripper stabs Brandon in the stomach] Anybody you want to say goodbye to?
- Brandon: My unborn child.
- The Ripper: Fuck your fucking unborn child. Now where'd I leave your bitch?
- Bug: I'm scared.
- Alex: We're sixteen, Bug. Like it or not, we're men now.
- Bug: I don't feel like a man!
- Alex: No one does, that's why you gotta fake it.
- Bug: Fake being a man to be a man?
- Alex: That's the way it works. You can't run, you have to face your fear like a man.
- Bug: Even though I'm not a man?
- Alex: Because you're not a man. Listen, the better you fake it, the better man you are.
- Bug: Just fake it.
- Alex: Fake it good. Like if you're scared, act like you don't give a shit, or if somebody hurts you, say, "Thank you very much, that felt wonderful."
- Bug: [practicing] Thanks, Brandon, that-I can't raise my arm, feels good.
- Alex: Yeah, there you go.
- Bug: Is that all you got, Brandon? I mean... I feel downright... cheated!
- Alex: I'm amazed that you're getting this so quick, it's tricky stuff.
- Bug: I was faking what I did.
- Alex: You were?
- Bug: [nods] Completely.
- Alex: Yeah, but you were faking it good.
- Bug: I was?
- Alex: Abso-fuckin'-lutely. You now have permission to shave.
- Alex: No, it's not okay, what I did. It's not okay for everybody to be killing each other all the time.
- Paterson: What did your grandmother say?
- Jeanne-Baptiste: What?
- Paterson: Did she tell you not to worry if somebody you thought was dead just might come back alive? If he was evil enough?
- Fang: Do you know who your daddy was?
- Bug: May told me that he loved us very much.
- Fang: Yes, but who was he?
- Bug: I don't know. He died in a car accident
- Fang: On the way to the hospital while she was giving birth to you.
- [sarcastically]
- Fang: What a sad and lovely story. Do you ever wonder why May doesn't talk about him or why there are no single fucking pictures of him in this house?