- Capitán Roberto Beltrán: Things just happen. You can't predict them.
- Lucy Alcázar: That's probably true.
- Carlos Cervantes: They sell some pretty curios.
- [looks down at Margarita's chest]
- Margarita Téllez: Curiosity seems to be your forte.
- Carlos Cervantes: Business trips must be nice with such a pretty secretary.
- Jorge Mancera: [to Margarita] What do you think?
- Margarita Téllez: About the gentleman's impertinence?
- Jorge Mancera: Yes.
- Margarita Téllez: I'll keep my opinion to myself.
- Prof. Enrique Ortos: You must think that a professor is an encyclopedia. But I only know 9,708 types of monocotyledons.
- Vázquez: Even in death, loneliness is unpleasant. I'd rather go accompanied by you all, as long as I go last.
- Marta Ortos: You know, Enrique? You'll think I'm crazy, but I'm almost happy that the plane crashed.
- Prof. Enrique Ortos: I think so, too. We've discovered our love, haven't we?
- Marta Ortos: Remember that cane that your students gave you? When we get back home, if I get out of line, I want you to straighten me out with it.
- Vázquez: I am not a criminal in this small community. At least not yet. I am the law - the supreme law.