- Rue Bennett: I can't get clean, I can't do that shit forever.
- Cassie Howard: You don't have to. Just take it one day at a time.
- [looks around the room for approval and is mostly met with awkward nods]
- Suze: [whipsers] Yeah.
- Rue Bennett: Hey, Cass?
- Cassie Howard: Yeah?
- Rue Bennett: I have a quick question for you.
- Cassie Howard: What?
- Rue Bennett: How long have you been fucking Nate Jacobs?
- Rue Bennett: You are fucking dead to me.
- Jules Vaughn: You don't mean that.
- Rue Bennett: I fucking mean every fucking word. You're dead to me, Jules.
- Jules Vaughn: I don't believe you.
- Rue Bennett: You and me? We're fuckin' done. There is nothing fucking there any more. Nothing... fucking... there. You know, I got a lot of regrets in my life. But gotta tell you, Jules, meeting you? Has got to be at the top of my fucking list.
- Laurie: You know, if I was going through withdrawal, I would do anything. It's one of the good parts about being a woman. Even if you don't have money, you still have something people want.
- Leslie Bennett: You look embarrassed, Rue. You embarrassed because Jules just heard everything you said? Don't cry, own that shit! Own what you just said.
- Rue Bennett: [whispers] Fuck you.
- Laurie: You wanna know a funny thing about me? I don't think I've ever gotten angry in my entire life.
- Rue Bennett: Really?
- Laurie: Well, I don't know if that's true. Is that true?
- [ponders for a second]
- Laurie: Yeah, no. That's true. I've never gotten angry.
- Laurie: You know, a doctor once told me they did brain studies on people who've done a lot of opiates, and that over time all the chemicals in your brain that make you happy and feel good start to decrease because your body's getting it artificially. But the longer you use, it just starts to weaken and wither, kinda like a limb that's not getting blood to it anymore. And then it just sort of falls off, and you get something called cell death where you just have these big dead spots in the parts of your brain that used to make you happy. No matter what you do you can never get it back. He said it's basically the same brain as people who've had major strokes. But the silver lining is that the things that don't feel good don't feel as bad anymore. You know, if I was going through withdrawal, I would do anything. It's one of the good parts of being a woman: even if you don't have money, you've still got something people want.
- Rue Bennett: I think I'm gonna be sick.