- Dai Mah: What Rambo is today, I'm to blame. You know what it's like to be a mother. You see your faults in your children. You just wish you had done better.
- Sister Tse: [Narrating] Dai Mah's smuggling empire kept the peace in a dying Chinatown underworld. Import-export companies, truck drivers and unemployment agencies all depended on her. For them, smuggling was harmless. But everyone knew it wouldn't last.
- Sinh: I've seen how you stare. I've seen it all my life. You think I'm weak, don't you? You survive your way, and I survive mine. And in the end, it's all the same.
- Rambo: Thank you for coming. My first birthday party I've ever had in my life. I hate all of you fuckers! Not one of you visited me when I was locked up! So fuck you!
- Zareeb: So when you were dreaming of coming to America, did you think it was going to be this way?
- Sister Tse: I didn't think. I just came.
- Dai Mah: Everybody has to work and earn here.
- Sister Tse: I can work. I can earn. Just give me a chance.
- Dai Mah: I just gave you a chance!
- Sister Tse: That kind of work is for the weak. I'm not weak!
- Rambo: Hey, where you going? You better get one of those boxes! Am I gonna have some problem with you?
- Sister Tse: This is stupid. I'm not doing that. I'm not gonna smuggle drugs.
- Rambo: The people are better, hm?
- Sister Tse: At least I give people hope. You kill them.
- Zareeb: Your soba better. Let me help.
- Sister Tse: No, I don't need help.
- Zareeb: Come on, Sister Tse, everybody needs help sometime!