Cold Comes the Night

[first lines]

Sophia:
I don't wanna go to school. I said I don't wanna go to school.

Chloe:
Oh, is that what that was?

Sophia:
Mom...

Chloe:
You can't stay here with me all day, Sophia.

Sophia:
You know how to do a lot of things. You are very smart. Smarter than me, definitely. Then why do I have to go to school?

Sophia:
Stella Bradshaw says no one's really supposed to live at a motel. You're supposed to stay one or two nights, and then leave and go back to your real house.

Chloe:
Stella Bradshaw said that?

Sophia:
Yes.

Chloe:
How many bathrooms do you think Stella Bradshaw has at her house?

Sophia:
I don't know.

Chloe:
Maximum two. You know how many bathrooms you have? Twenty two. That's more than they have in Buckingham Palace. You know what that makes you? A princess.

Sophia:
Mom, you're crazy.

Chloe:
Crazy like a fox.

Chloe:
I'm not gonna sit here in silence for the next however-many hours. And as long as you have that gun, I'm gonna be nervous. And as long as I'm nervous, I'm gonna talk.

Topo:
You are afraid. And when you are afraid, you talk too much.

Topo:
Your half. [sets bag down]

Chloe:
Why are you doing this?

Topo:
Because good help is hard to find.

[last lines]

Chloe:
So baby, you know what I was thinking?

Sophia:
No.

Chloe:
I was thinking about what Stella Bradshaw said. And I think maybe she's right. Maybe people aren't supposed to live in motels.

Sophia:
Mom! You're crazy.

Chloe:
I know.