- Aggie Hunter: Don't worry for me. I'm here if you need me. I can't help my own nature. If I love you it's something I can't help, and something that I need. People are what they are and love what they love, and I don't see any sense in trying to be something else. I wouldn't trade it for a box at the opera, the thing I feel for you. And you can't change it or take it away from me. And there you are mister jack in the box.
- Ernie Mott: First thing in the morning we're taking out the marriage license.
- Ada Brantline: Are we?
- Ernie Mott: I wonder what the weatherman promises for tomorrow.
- Ada Brantline: Likely rain - followed by suicide in bed.
- Ada Brantline: [after Ada has seen Ernie give money to an older man who was rummaging through some trash] Charitable sort, you are.
- Ernie Mott: Oh, that? Friend of mine. Knew him when.
- Ada Brantline: When what?
- Ernie Mott: When he was a man. Old Ike Weber, a friend of my Ma's, told me this: "As I was out walking, I saw in the distance what seemed an animal. Come up closer, and see it was a man. Come still closer, and see it was my brother."