“- Charlotte: How can you live in a town this size and not see your ex-wife all the time?
- Sully: That's easy, dolly. Peter's mom and I don't exactly travel in the same circles. As a matter of fact, Vera pretty much travels in a straight line.
- Peter: Somebody in this family had to.”
Catherine Dent - Charlotte
Paul Newman - Sully
Dylan Walsh - Peter

“- Tom: This is supposed to be good for cigarette mouth. Do you smoke?
- Alice: When I drink or go out at night, I smoke. I live dangerously - on the edge. I'm no kindergarten teacher.”
Robert Sean Leonard - Tom
Chloë Sevigny - Alice

“- Priest: If you begin drinking again, what will happen?
- Dave Robicheaux: I would lose everything.
- Priest: But knowing this, knowing that you would lose everything, you would lose your wife, your business, and your self-respect, still, you want to drink.
- Dave Robicheaux: Yes I do.
- Priest: You're absolved of your sins. Go in peace.”
Christopher Kriesa - Priest
Alec Baldwin - Dave Robicheaux

“I get so damned apocalyptic when I drink.”
Lindsay Crouse - Ilana Green

“- Roland Sharp: I gave up alcohol about ten years ago.
- Professor Molly McCarthy: Didn't like yourself when you were drinking?
- Roland Sharp: Hell, I loved myself when I was drinking. It was the other people that had the problem!”
Tommy Lee Jones - Roland Sharp
Anne Archer - Professor Molly McCarthy