- Agnes Hurley: You're going to have a big wedding whether you like it or not! And if you don't like it, you don't have to come!
- Agnes Hurley: The only reason he married me was that my father, God rest his soul, met him one day at the union hall. They was both house painters, ya know. And he said, "Hurley, I'll give ya $300 if you'll marry my daughter." And he said he would, and he did.
- Jane Hurley: I never heard that story, Ma.
- Agnes Hurley: Oh, sure, sure. 'Course I'm exaggeratin' a little, but... but that's the gist of it.
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- Bridge Attendant: Morning, Tom! How's the taxi business?
- Tom Hurley: How's the bridge business?
- Bridge Attendant: One more day like this, I'll own the bridge!
- Tom Hurley: Long time we've been married.
- Agnes Hurley: Too long? Too long a time?
- Tom Hurley: To know someone?... It's like a day, Aggie.
- Agnes Hurley: I don't know what to say to your pa. Go make him some breakfast, maybe it'll make him more peaceful.
- Agnes Hurley: So you're awake now, are you? You're not sleepy when there're no guests to be run out of the house.
- Uncle Jack Conlon: A fine way to go... laughing at a funny story with a bottle of beer in your hand.
- Agnes Hurley: Look, Tom, think of that girl leaving this house with nothing to show for a whole life with us. Just moving out like, like she was changing a place to live. We've been like nothing at all to her, just strangers living in the same house.
- Agnes Hurley: So you're awake now, are you? You're not sleepy when there's no guests to be run out of the house.