“It ain't my job to know what's worse, Paul D. It's to know what's out there and to keep my children from it! Because I would rather know they're at peace in Heaven than living a hell here on Earth! So help me, Jesus!”
Oprah Winfrey - Sethe

“How do I show that nothing, not a taste, not a smell, not even the color of the sky, has ever been as clear and sharp as it was when I belonged to her. I don't know how to express the being with someone so dangerous is the last time I felt safe.”

Alison Lohman - Astrid Magnussen

“- Jared Grace: I don't want to live with dad. Is it okay if I stay here with you.
- Helen Grace: Who else is gonna protect us?”
Freddie Highmore - Jared Grace
Mary-Louise Parker - Helen Grace

“She was overly protective. I just like to think she cared about me. I was a member of the chess team and whenever we would have chess tournaments I had to wear a protective helmet. Maybe she thought that we might have fallen maybe and impaled our heads on a pointy bishop or something.”

Bob Balaban - Jonathan Steinbloom

“- Lynn Bracken: Where did this come from?
- Bud White: When I was twelve, my old man went after my mother with a bottle. I got in the way.
- Lynn Bracken: So you saved her.
- Bud White: Not for long.”

Kim Basinger - Lynn Bracken
Russell Crowe - Bud White