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Edward Sheffield: When someone loves you, you have to be careful with it!
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Edward Sheffield: [to Susan] When you love someone you have to be careful with it, you might never get it again.
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Tony Hastings: What we're gonna do?
Bobby Andes: It's a question of how serious you are about seeing justice done.
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Edward Sheffield: You can't just walk away from things all the time.
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Carlos: Susan, enjoy the absurdity of our world. It's a lot less painful. Believe me, our world is a lot less painful than the real world.
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Ray Marcus: Wanna dance? Wanna dance?
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Ray Marcus: You've should fucking kill me! You don't know nothing. It's fun to kill people. You, of all people should try sometime.
Tony Hastings: Fun? It's fun to kill people? Did you have fun killing my wife and daughter?
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[repeated line]
Tony Hastings: I should have stopped it!
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Tony Hastings: Bobby?
Bobby Andes: What?
Tony Hastings: Are you in trouble for all of this?
Bobby Andes: Hell, I don't know. I don't really give a shit. I'm dying. Remember?
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Tony Hastings: Are you okay?
Bobby Andes: [coughing hard then spits] Yeah! I'm fine, follow me.
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Anne Sutton: We all eventually turn into our mothers.
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Ray Marcus: Hey, man.
Tony Hastings: Hey, man.
Ray Marcus: You know you're supposed to stop when there's an accident.
Tony Hastings: I know that.
Ray Marcus: Then why didn't you stop?
[Tony stays silent]
Ray Marcus: [sees the girl using her phone] That won't work. No signal here. You're not supposed to leave the scene of an accident, that's a crime.
Laura Hastings: After the way you were driving?
Ray Marcus: How's that? What'd you say?
Laura Hastings: Just the way you were driving was crazy.
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Susan Morrow: I think that to be really really good you have to come from some place inside that I'm just not sure I have.
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Tony Hastings: I wanna know Ray, I wanna know the exact story of what you did to them.
Ray Marcus: You'll have to ask somebody else.
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Bobby Andes: So, I'll tell what we got, we had a attempted to round up at a supermarket and mall last night just before closing. Caught one of the guys, one got killed, one got away.
Tony Hastings: What you want me to do?
Bobby Andes: See if you can recognize the one we caught. You can look at the dead one too, although I don't really think it's necessary, we know who he is.
Tony Hastings: Who?
Bobby Andes: Steve Adams.
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Bobby Andes: It's gonna be rough on them out there, not knowing how it's gonna come. Maybe Ray get killed, for resisting arrest, or coming at home late at night, might get shot by a burglar.
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Bobby Andes: I told you, I got lung cancer. It's metastasized.
Tony Hastings: But you smoke all the time.
Bobby Andes: Yeah, well, that's how it works.
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Bobby Andes: What you gonna tell me about Ray and Turk?
Lou: Who?
Bobby Andes: "Who"? What are you, an owl? You an owl, Lou?
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Susan Morrow: Do you ever feel like your life has turned into something you never intended?
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[at a chic dinner party]
Chloe: So I said, "Well, my mother always told me if you massage your pussy with Pam cooking spray a month before the baby comes, you don't need vaginal rejuvenation."
[the table gasps and laughs]
Susan Morrow: [to Carlos] I've gotta get some Pam.
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Susan Morrow: Why are you so driven to write?
Edward Sheffield: I guess it's a way of keeping things alive. You know, saving things that will eventually die. If I write it down, then... it'll last forever.
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