- Carol Harbin: Their first mistake was thinking that the child was asleep. The second mistake was that the wife had decided to come home that night on the train.
- First little girl: Lucy Harbin took an axe, gave her husband 40 whacks, when she saw what she had done, she gave his girlfriend 41.
- Carol Harbin: [Lucy storms out to find two girls playing jump rope] What is it, Mother?
- Lucy Harbin: I heard them...
- First little girl: London bridge is falling down, falling down, London bridge is falling down, my fair lady.
- Carol Harbin: It's just a nursery rhyme, Mother.
- Second little girl: Take the key and lock her up, lock her up, lock her up, take the key and lock her up, my fair lady.
- Lucy Harbin: [shakes Lucy's bracelets] Where did you get those?
- Carol Harbin: I saved them. I remember the way they used to jangle when you picked me up to kiss me goodnight.
- Lucy Harbin: [to Michael] You sit down here with Carrol because I wouldn't want her to think I was taking her father away from her.
- Lucy Harbin: Carol, you want a drink?
- Carol Harbin: No, thank you, Mother.
- Lucy Harbin: But it's a celebration.
- Carol Harbin: [Voiceover] Lucy Harbin. Born and raised on a farm. Parents: poor. Education: meagre. Very much a woman, and very much aware of the fact.