The Bartender: The only thing that I know for sure, is that you are the best thing that's ever happened to me.
The Bartender: You know who she is, and you understand who you are, and now maybe you're ready to understand who I am.
[first lines]
The Bartender: What if I could put him in front of you? The man that ruined your life. If I could guarantee that you'd get away with it, would you kill him?
The Unmarried Mother: You're not how I imagined you'd look.
Jane: Do I know you?
The Unmarried Mother: You're beautiful. Someone should have told you that.
Jane: Well, you just did.
The Unmarried Mother: Let's face it. Nobody's innocent. Everybody just uses everybody else to get what they want.
The Unmarried Mother: You know, sometimes I think this world deserves the shit storm that it gets.
The Interviewer: Do you see yourself as a tourist or a participant?
The Unmarried Mother: I've excelled in advanced physics, biology and astronomy. A tourist is someone who travels across the ocean only to be photographed sitting next to their boat. I have no intention of being a tourist.
The Bartender: The one thing that this job has taught me is that truth is stranger than fiction.
[last lines]
The Bartender: You'll have to make tough choices. You'll influence the past. Can we change our futures? I don't know. The only thing that I know for sure is that you are the best thing that's ever happened to me. I miss you dreadfully.
The Unmarried Mother: [Referring to her future] This life. Is it lonely?
The Bartender: No family.
The Unmarried Mother: No.
The Bartender: But, you do have a purpose.
Mr. Robertson: I see you've had some disciplinary problems in the past.
Jane: I've had nothing but straight As in all my classes since the first grade.
Mr. Robertson: Yes. Have you ever been with a man?
Jane: Have you?
The Unmarried Mother: I stopped looking in the mirror. I hated what I saw. I have no photos of myself as a young girl. I don't even remember what I looked like. It's just more of a feeling now.
The Bartender: Well, you look better than I do.
The Unmarried Mother: Who cares how a barkeep looks? Or a writer for that matter.
The Unmarried Mother: I never understood why my parents abandoned me. What had I done that was so wrong?
Alice: It's never too late to be who you might have been.
The Unmarried Mother: You ever hear the expression "a ruined woman"?
The Bartender: Of course.
The Unmarried Mother: Well, I was as ruined as a woman could be. I was no longer a woman and I did not know how to be a man.
Mr. Robertson: Just relax, Jane. Some of the ladies before you, got a little nervous, a little lost in thought.
Jane: [scoffs] Perhaps that's because to them a thought is unfamiliar territory.
The Bartender: Here you are at the beginning of your new life. It can be overwhelming knowing the future you're about to create. Knowing the purpose of that life. You know who she is. And you understand who you are. And now maybe you're ready to understand who I am. You see, I love her too.
The Unmarried Mother: We all trip up along the way. But you and I, perhaps over the same things.
