- Medicio: Tonight will be rather quiet.
- [chuckles over a scantily clad woman shrieking uncontrollably]
- Magistrate's wife: Why don't you join us? Any friend of my husband is a friend of mine.
- Fruit Vendor: [explaining his system of barter with Carmen, who's taken an apple] We have a very good system here. She takes a dozen apples, she pays me back.
- Jose: How?
- Carmen: Take a dozen apples and you'll find out.
- Jose: There's a kind of bitterness that in the mirror takes the form of shame, then rage. It's a thin, thin line; it separates despair from the savage need for vengeance. He had taken what I had believed was mine, and in so doing he had destroyed the hopes that keep our dreams alive. My days as a policeman suddenly seemed very far away. The narrow confines of the villa began to reach everyone, and magnify the tensions that were steadily building towards disaster. I wondered that we didn't kill each other. But there was always Carmen, holding us together with her kisses and her lies. She knew when it was time to work and time to play.
- Carmen: You mean you'll do anything to stay rich?
- Baby Lucas: That's right.
- Carmen: Even Kill?
- Baby Lucas: Sure, why not? I killed the boy I once was, became the man I am today.
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