- Malabar the Mighty, Circus Strongman: There is a time for fear, Nanon... and a time for hate... and a time for love.
- Malabar the Mighty, Circus Strongman: See, Nanon! Eyes that adore you... hands that long to caress you... and strength to protect you! Why do you always draw away from me?
- Nanon Zanzi: Why isn't he different from other men! Why doesn't he keep his hands off me?
- Nanon Zanzi: Hands! Men's hands! How I hate them!
- Nanon Zanzi: Men! The beasts! God would show wisdom if he took the hands from all of them!
- Nanon Zanzi: Forgive me, Alonzo... I did not mean you.
- Nanon Zanzi: You are the one man I can come to without fear.
- Malabar the Mighty, Circus Strongman: You are a riddle, Nanon. You shrink from me... yet you kiss my flowers when I am gone.
- Nanon Zanzi: You are right, Alonzo... brute strength does not mean everything to all women. Alonzo, all my life men have tried to put their beastly hands on me... to paw over me. I have grown so that I shrink with fear when any man even touches me.
- Nanon Zanzi: [Nanon embraces Alonzo when he returns from being away at the hospital] You are thinner, Alonzo! Have you been sick?
- Alonzo the Armless: No not sick... but I have lost some flesh.