- Joe Silveri: Your face is a mess. I'll clean it up.
- [starts licking her face]
- Caterina Silveri: It's good.
- Joe Silveri: Hold still.
- Joe Silveri: I want to be inside you.
- Arianna: How?
- Joe Silveri: Help me get my jeans off.
- [She does this, more forcibly than he had expected]
- Joe Silveri: Christ! You didn't have to pull them all the way off. Now yours.
- [He watches her with adoration as she undresses]
- Joe Silveri: You look better than Marilyn Monroe!
- Arianna: And now?
- Joe Silveri: Now we kiss.
- [Which they do, very passionately]
- Arianna: Now be inside me.
- Joe Silveri: Here?
- Arianna: Do you know how? I've never done it.
- Joe Silveri: You're excused. I'm a virgin, too.
- Caterina Silveri: I love you, Joe. I love you, Joe.
- Joe Silveri: No, you don't. You hate me. You never loved me. You always hated me. You're crazy. You're fucking crazy. You never loved me and you'll never love me. You hate me, you hate me, you hate me. You're a fucking bitch. A bitch!
- Joe Silveri: Why did you break up?
- Caterina Silveri: Oh, he hated me, my voice. He wanted something different. He was selfish, and he... He was in love with his mother!
- Marina: Why don't we go away someplace, for a week? To Morocco. Let's go alone. Just the two of us. What do you think? You need a lover.
- Caterina Silveri: C**t!
- Caterina Silveri: [at the entrance to Giuseppe Verdi's home] Doesn't this mean anything to you?
- Joe Silveri: [indifferent] Not particularly.