Rachel Cameron: [On the phone with her mother in the room] Hello?
Nick Kazlik: [On the other line] Hello.
Rachel Cameron: Oh, hello!
Nick Kazlik: My folks are away for the weekend. So, I thought maybe you'd like to play house. We got, like, three bedrooms, so we can chase each other from room to room between... you know.
Rachel Cameron: I mean, yes, I'd love to read that book. That sounds very interesting. Can you get it from the public library?
Nick Kazlik: Oh, you can't talk, right?
Rachel Cameron: Right. At this moment, I'm Venus observed.

Rachel Cameron: Back to our respective cages.

Rachel Cameron: I'm exactly in the middle of my life. This is my last... ascending summer. Everything else from now on is just rolling downhill into my grave.

Rachel Cameron: Oh, guess who invited me for supper tonight, and I said "No". The groper.
Calla Mackie: He probably serves rat. Come on up after, I bought you a... a nothing gift.
Rachel Cameron: What?
Calla Mackie: A companion that needs taking care of. But unlike your mother, it doesn't talk back.

Nurse: The operation was a success. You're out of danger.
Rachel Cameron: How can I be out of danger if I'm not dead?

[Last lines]
Rachel Cameron: [Thinking] Where I'm going, anything may happen. Nothing may happen. Maybe I'll find a friend. Maybe I'll even marry a middle-aged widower and have children in my time. Most of the chances are against it, but not, I think, quite all. It may be that my children will always be temporary, never to be held. But so are everyone's. I will be afraid, always. I may be lonely, always. What will happen? What will happen?