- [first lines]
- Evelyn Spence: I once met a man, not my husband, another man. He looked back on a life. What would you carry into the darkness? For me, I'll take the smell of a pearl shell, freshly opened, one day on a beach.
- [last lines]
- Evelyn Spence: The thing I'll remember on the day I die is the smell of a pearl shell, freshly opened. Yes, that's what I'll take with me.
- Dr. Phillip Spence: So you're the product of a mind.
- Evelyn Spence: I'm the product of a sexual impulse.