Mother and Child

Ray:
Do you always tell the truth?

Lucy:
The truth is easier to remember.

[last lines]

Karen:
[voice over] I never saw you. With a new haircut, with new shoes... When was your first period? Was someone there to help? Did anyone explain? Did you hear the rain one night when I heard it? What gave you comfort? I've missed it all, and I've accepted it. But today I met Ella. Her little face is like a bird that flies high over thirty-eight years that have gone on and on and on, like a horrible parade. But now it's passed. Only Ella remains, God bless her. Ella is peace.

[first lines]

Karen:
Her birthday's coming up. She'll be 37.

Nora:
I don't want to die here.

Karen:
You're not going to die. You'll be fine.

Nora:
You expect me to live forever?

Karen:
Don't start that again.

Nora:
Even if I could, I wouldn't want to. It's just one disappointment after another.

Paul:
Is it an affair if neither party is married?

Elizabeth:
An affair is any sexual or romantic relationship of an informal or temporary nature.

Elizabeth:
You don't seem like a man who's scared by scary things.

Paul:
It's a precaution. Sometimes when you fall, it's hard to get up.

Leticia:
To take something that comes from you, made of you, and part with it forever and ever.

Ray:
I don't want it.

Leticia:
I didn't want you either.

Ray:
I'm not you.

Leticia:
And yet here you are, 20 and pregnant and single, just like I was. You see, I didn't want you, and now, I can't take a breath without thinking of you, and wanting the best of the best for you.

Violet:
Are you married. You must be, or you wouldn't be hiding out here so often.

Violet:
A person inside another person - science fiction. She doesn't know a thing.

Elizabeth:
Who?

Violet:
Your baby. Only her mother's heartbeat.

Elizabeth:
[about her mother] She was like you.

Violet:
But not a virgin.