Big Love, Season 2

Sarah:
[to Barb, about polygamy] I don't think anybody knows, Mom, and not everybody cares.

Nicki:
I didn't marry for love. I married for the principle.

Barb:
I didn't. I tried. I don't know if I have a testimony for the principle. But I love you, I love our family more and more.

Nicki:
That frightens me. I don't know that a marriage based on love can go the distance. The secret holiness of the institution. The sanctity of marriage. Without it, it's just random couplings, with no purpose or stick-to-it-iveness. How will we survive the bad times on just love?

Nicki:
[to Margie] Poor Joey and Wanda. They're all they've got. No other spouses to lean on. How are they going to make it through this crisis with only each other?

Adaleen:
[to 10-year-old girl] OK, here's how it goes; it's complicated, so try to follow along. I'm 32nd of 56 children, and when I married Roman I became my own step-grandma, because my father married Roman's daughter, Baylene. [conversation continues off screen] So, little Josie, that makes you my step-grandma, and I'm your stepmom. And when I had Alby he became my great-uncle and I became his great-great-grandmother. Which of course makes me my own grandmother.

Bill:
You're my wife, Margene. You can't be seeing the girl I'm dating.

Margie:
Nicki doesn't have a mom anymore, so she's trying to steal mine.

Margie:
Nicki, can I tell you a secret?

Nicki:
If you must.

Alby:
The believers believe in me.

Barb:
[about Ben] I don't want his respect, I want his love.