- Assunta Patanè: No! Where are you taking me? Where are we going? No! No, not the bed! I feel nothing. I'm like a piece of ice! Then, yes! Ruin me! My Vincenzo, all the nights I dreamt of you. All the nights!
- Assunta Patanè: I was ravished by force. But when it was happening I was as cold as marble.
- Salvatore: Cold or warm, how must I behave?
- Assunta Patanè: You are my fiancé, take the knife and stab him.
- Salvatore: The males of your family must clear the offense. Then, perhaps, I can marry you. We'll see.
- Assunta Patanè: Salvatore, there are no men. There are only women in my family!
- Assunta's Mother: This is a pistol. Passport for England. Address of the traitor. Photograph of the traitor. San Giovanni. May he place a hand on your head. 11,000 lira.
- Assunta Patanè: It's useless. You look at me with dead fish eyes. I'm an honest woman! It's useless don't do that. I'm like a piece of marble! You're kissing the dead!
- Vincenzo Macaluso: What was that?
- Assunta Patanè: I dropped the knife.
- Vincenzo Macaluso: What do you feel?
- Assunta Patanè: A thing.
- Vincenzo Macaluso: What thing?
- Assunta Patanè: I don't know.
- Vincenzo Macaluso: Hold me.
- Assunta Patanè: Signora, there's a man dressed as a woman.
- Ada Mcintosh: It's a kilt, Susie. It's a national costume. Let him in.
- Assunta Patanè: Teach him a lesson. Please, punish him!
- John: But, what did he do?
- Assunta Patanè: Touched me, like this! And insulted me.
- John: No, not him love. Compliment.
- Assunta Patanè: No compliment. Insult. To me and you.
- John: Me?
- Assunta Patanè: Yes, you. If Vincenzo were here and he saw, he'd take a knife and attack him. Vincenzo is a man. A real man!
- John: Listen, darling, I'm tired. I'm tired. In my house there are two rooms: one for me and one for you. If you want to sleep with me, I'd be very happy. If not, I won't touch.
- Assunta Patanè: Swear.
- John: What?
- Assunta Patanè: Swear.
- John: Okay. Swear.
- John: Let's dance a little. Come on. Look, why do you dance like steel? Hard?
- Assunta Patanè: Would you believe it? I'm not used to dancing with a man!
- Assunta Patanè: You were the first. Understand? The first! The only one! Your mine and no one else's. Understand?
- Vincenzo Macaluso: And if I don't agree?
- Assunta Patanè: I'll put a bullet in between your eyes that goes through your head!
- Assunta Patanè: You man. I woman. No one in the house and you look at the TV?
- John: Oh, you're a little love.
- [moves in for an embrace]
- Assunta Patanè: No! No! Let go! How do you allow yourself? Saint Giovanni!
- John: What's the matter with you?
- Assunta Patanè: Holy Mary! The pistol! The pistol! I kill you! Kill you! Kill you! Watch yourself or you get this in the eye!
- John: I don't understand? I don't understand? You provoked me!
- Assunta Patanè: The true man must show and the true woman must defend.
- Assunta Patanè: Blessed virgin, the bedroom! Traitor! You're all the same! Right away, right in the bedroom? Do you only have one thing on your mind? Like the miner with his lamp!
- Frank Hogan: Don't go away!
- Assunta Patanè: But I must.
- Frank Hogan: Since I have known you, I have dreamt strange things. It's because I like you. Assunta, you are so strong, so full of fire!
- Assunta Patanè: What are you saying? I am a woman! Idiot! I am - a woman.
- Assunta Patanè: She cheated only once?
- Frank Hogan: No, no. Maybe with another! With many others.
- Assunta Patanè: With many? Often?
- Frank Hogan: Yes, even with the butcher. Still, with everyone.
- Assunta Patanè: So why haven't you stabbed her?
- Frank Hogan: I took a knife.
- Assunta Patanè: But you have to kill her. Not yourself!
- Assunta Patanè: I didn't want to shoot him, but, when I saw him, the red mist fell and I couldn't see anymore!
- Dr. Tom Osborne: You need to learn to master your instincts better than a wild animal!
- Assunta Patanè: I have blood in my veins, not like him who doesn't love anybody.
- Dr. Tom Osborne: Ah, well, if you love somebody, shoot!
- Dr. Tom Osborne: You shot at an innocent!
- Assunta Patanè: Innocent? Who's innocent? He's a traitor.
- Dr. Tom Osborne: Cretin! You hit her, not him!
- Assunta Patanè: Her? Missed - the aim? A whore, nonetheless.
- Assunta Patanè: I'm afraid of flying!
- Nurse: Ah, yes. You have no fear of shooting someone, but you're scared of flying!
- Assunta Patanè: Don't be angry. I promise to do exactly what you told me. And if someone finds fault, I will cry and stab myself in the heart.
- Dr. Tom Osborne: Bravo. We're getting better!
- Vincenzo Macaluso: You must waiver your freedom forever.
- Assunta Patanè: What do I want my freedom for? I want to be chained to you forever!
- Vincenzo Macaluso: I once lived with a girl for two months. As husband and wife. Concubine. She wanted me, but sometimes she said, "Tonight, I go out with friends." I said, "But if you love me so much, why do you go out with your friends?" You know what she said? "Friendship is as important as love!"
- Assunta Patanè: Eh, well, what can you do?
- Vincenzo Macaluso: I said, "You must choose me or your friends."
- Assunta Patanè: What did she do?
- Vincenzo Macaluso: She choose her friends.
- Assunta Patanè: What did you want from her? What do you look for?
- Vincenzo Macaluso: Assunta, I want a woman who is mine.
- Assunta Patanè: To think all this success because of that nonsense when we spent a night together.
- Vincenzo Macaluso: Why call it nonsense?
- Assunta Patanè: I'm just saying it was without importance.
- Vincenzo Macaluso: No, Assunta. Unimportant, perhaps for the people of this country. But not for me.
- Assunta Patanè: What are you saying?
- Vincenzo Macaluso: What I mean is that according to our sacred principles, I still have some claim over you because of that night.
- Assunta Patanè: I don't understand what you mean?
- Vincenzo Macaluso: Assunta, you are like me, Sicilian. And you understand very well what I mean.
- Assunta Patanè: It's useless to look at me like that. I have changed profoundly.
- Vincenzo Macaluso: Want to dance?