- Gerald Burlingame: People are safe from ghouls and ghosts and the living dead in the daylight. And they're usually safe from them at night, if they're with others. But a person alone in the dark... women alone in the dark are like open doors, Jessie, and if they scream for help, who knows what might answer. Who knows what people see in the moment of their solitary death. Is it so hard to believe that some of them might have died of fear? No matter what the words on the death certificate say... died of fear... because they saw, at their bedside, the Moonlight Man. Maybe that's just what death looks like.
- Jessie Burlingame: Not... real...
- Gerald Burlingame: Then why did the dog leave?
- Young Jessie: The people who were supposed to protect you from the monsters turned out to be monsters themselves...
- [last lines]
- Jessie Burlingame: [to Moonlight Man in the courtroom] You're so much smaller than I remember.
- Gerald Burlingame: Everybody's got a little corner in there somewhere; a button they won't admit they want pressed. Year after year, I barely gave you a glimpse of mine.
- Jessie Burlingame: Just uncuff me and we can talk.
- Gerald Burlingame: What if I won't?
- Jessie Burlingame: What do you mean?
- Gerald Burlingame: What if I won't?
- Jessie Burlingame: This monster was real, real as they come. As real as the cuffs, as the dog. As real as the eclipse.
- Gerald Burlingame: Isn't this why we came up here? To spice things up and try and push the boundaries?
- Gerald Burlingame: Do you remember the joke I told at Christmas last year? He came up behind me. I was like four or five into the night already. I was loose, but not slurring yet. It was Tom Reynolds. I was talking to this low and conspiratorial and that very specific guy's only fucking tone that says you'll appreciate this brother, but only you. You didn't hear the beginning of the joke, just the end. And what is a woman anyway? And I waited. A cocky little pause I take before a punchline really makes me proud of myself. And Tom said, 'well,' like 'you already knew the answer.' And I said...
- Jessie Burlingame: A life support.
- Gerald Burlingame: Come on. And what is a woman anyway?
- Jessie Burlingame: A life support system for a cunt.
- Gerald Burlingame: Yeah, that was it. You never told me you heard it. You never raised an objection. You smiled through the night, hated me a little bit, but never once brought it up. I guess you're not like that.
- Jessie Burlingame: You don't talk that way.
- Gerald Burlingame: Yeah, was I just putting on a show?