- June Mills: I need you, Eric.
- Eric Stanton: [sarcastically] You need me, right.
- June Mills: You're my husband, and I'm your wife.
- Eric Stanton: Right out of a book, again.
- June Mills: Yes, out of a book: "We were born to tread the earth as angels, to seek out heaven this side of the sky. But they who race above shall stumble in the dark, and fall from grace."
- Eric Stanton: Go on. Sounds good.
- June Mills: "Then love alone can make the fallen angel rise. For only two together can enter Paradise."
- June Mills: [last lines, June is sitting in a car outside the diner] Eric.
- [Eric looks over to June, she motions him to get into the car, he does]
- June Mills: Where to?
- Eric Stanton: [Eric nestles up to his wife] Home.
- [They drive off into the night]
- Eric Stanton: Twenty-one, the Stork Club, that's where you belong - smothered in mink! I can see you there.
- Stella: And do you see me with a ring on my finger? Someone to give me a home?
- Joe Ellis: Get in.
- Eric Stanton: I'm not going.
- Professor Madley: Not going? What's wrong?
- Eric Stanton: Nothing. You go ahead. I'll meet you.
- Professor Madley: But Eric - we need you for the advance publicity. San Francisco's a tough town on spooks.
- Joe Ellis: Come on! hit 'em like the earthquake!
- Eric Stanton: When I feel like it. I made it clear to you when I took this job. You can't tie me down. Cramps my style. I always work best when a certain feeling comes over me, and right now I haven't got it.
- Joe Ellis: [under his breath] Genius!
- Professor Madley: Eric my boy, you're an artist. You have my sympathy. And a bus ticket on the firm.
- Stella: You talk different, sure. But you drive just like the rest. Well, you've got the wrong girl.
- Eric Stanton: Don't worry. I'm not going to kiss you good night and make you unhappy
- June Mills: Unhappy? Don't you take too much for granted?
- Eric Stanton: No. One kiss goes a long way with you. You need a guy who will take it the same way. Who will give you marriage, with all the trimmings. Home and kids. Who will walk to church with you every Sunday. Save all your good nights for him.
- June Mills: What makes you think I wanted you to kiss me?
- June Mills: Didn't you?
- Eric Stanton: I could go on for the rest of the night telling you about my batting average, how many times I've struck out. Even when I hit a home run, it isn't any different. Like the time in New York just before I came west. I'd started a publicity office. Like always, it was great in the beginning. Guy comes along, wants to buy the business, offered me 8,000 bucks on the line. I took it. We had a big celebration that night. In a couple ofhours I'd lost half of it back to him and his friends. I knew the dice were loaded, but I couldn't prove it. Anyway, I came west. Chicago for a while. Then Omaha. Las Vegas. That's where I dropped the other half of the dough. When I was kicked off of that bus at Walton, I only had one dollar left. And then. Ah, but why go on?
- Mark Judd: [to Eric] You know what she was like. You couldn't get away from her either. Two years I came in here and drank coffee... just to get a look at her. Day after day for two years. Insane. Perhaps. Those evenings when she went out with other men... while I was waiting for her in the shadow of the porch. Remember three nights ago when you brought her home... and kissed her? I was standing there. Insane.
- Clara Mills: Married?
- Eric Stanton: Sure. Here's the evidence. A certificate of marriage.
- Clara Mills: June, you don't know what you've done.
- June Mills: I do.
- Clara Mills: I'll have the whole thing annulled.
- June Mills: No, you won't Clara. I know what I want. This isn't as sudden as you think.
- Eric Stanton: Well, what's the verdict?
- Clara Mills: I hope you'll be very happy.
- June Mills: Thank you, Clara.
- Eric Stanton: I suppose the next thing to say is, "Shall we be friends?"
- Clara Mills: We could be. If you make June happy.