- Valerie Hayden Miller: [receiving the advances of her drunken husband] You're not the first today, I'm just getting warmed up!
- Mrs. Gerald Hayden: You have made it publicly obvious that you have only one concept of love... a vile and sinful one.
- Valerie Hayden Miller: When you're dying of thirst, you drink from a mudhole.
- Mrs. Gerald Hayden: You have devoted your life to mud and filth.
- Valerie Hayden Miller: Only to get even with you.
- Gordon Harris: Dani stabbed him in the stomach with one of her mother's sculpting chisels. He lived about three minutes. Painfully.
- Gordon Harris: Valerie screamed. Dani rushed to her defense, picking up the first weapon she could find. She swung wildly - and hit a home run.
- Mrs. Gerald Hayden: Somewhere along the line the world has lost all its standards and all its tastes!