Jennifer Jason Leigh credited as playing...
Anney
- Doctor: How'd she break her coccyx?
- Anney Boatwright: Her what?
- Doctor: Her tailbone, lady! Her ass! What you been hitting' this child with, or maybe you just been throwin' her up against the damn wall!
- Anney Boatwright: What are you sayin'? What are you sayin'?
- Doctor: [to Bone] Do you wanna talk about it, honey? How 'bout we ask your mama to leave, and then, maybe you can tell me what happened, okay?
- Anney Boatwright: Let me have my girl!
- Doctor: This child's been beaten! This child's been beaten, and I'm gonna call the authorities!
- Anney Boatwright: Hey, Bone. You sleepin'? You startin' to look like me, Bone. You're growin' up. What do you think, honey? You think I'm doin' the right thing?
- Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright: I don't know.
- Anney Boatwright: I think I am. I hope I am! Sometimes I just get so tired, you know? Sometimes I just want somebody strong to stand by me. To stay with me.
- Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright: I'll stay with you.
- Anney Boatwright: I know you will, Bone.
- Glen Waddell: We're movin'.
- Anney Boatwright: What? Where?
- Glen Waddell: Found us a new place over by the JC Penney mill.
- Aunt Ruth: Why? What's wrong with this place?
- Alma: Damn you, Glen Waddell. Don't you take Anney so far away.
- Anney Boatwright: Not my kids. I was never gonna have my girls know what it was like. I was never gonna have them go hungry or cold or scared. Never, you hear me? Never!
- Granny: Ruth Anne's all right, but Mattie Raylene would've been better. 'Course nobody bothered to ask me.
- Anney Boatwright: Nobody bothered to ask you? Nobody bothered to ask me. It's my baby.
- Granny: That's your own damn fault for sleepin' three whole days.
- Anney Boatwright: I had a concussion, Mama!
- Granny: How many babies I had, and did I sleep through any of 'em? I don't think so.
- Glen Waddell: [Glen, takes money out of envelope] Anney, what the hell is this?
- Anney Boatwright: Earl was just tryin' to help, Glen. Good Lord.
- Glen Waddell: How can you shame me like that? I'm a grown man, Anney. I don't need your brother to pay my damn way,
- [slams money on the table]
- Glen Waddell: you give that back to him tomorrow.
- Anney Boatwright: Glen, that's crazy. We need this money.
- Glen Waddell: You just do as I say and
- [rips cord from wall]
- Glen Waddell: sell the damn radio, while you're at it!
- Glen Waddell: The things I do ain't good enough for you. I put my hand in a honey jar, comes out piss! Nothing I do is right!
- Anney Boatwright: Glen, everybody has troubles now and then, honey. Just give it time, sweetie. Things are gonna work out.
- Glen Waddell: [Annoyingly] Shut up. You shut up, you don't give me that mama crap! You shut your mouth, you just shut up! Shut Up!
- [the girls looks in horror]
- Glen Waddell: I'm sorry Anney. Anney, you know I don't mean to yell at you. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
- [Grabs Bone's arm firmly, and she yelps in pain]
- Glen Waddell: You know how much I love your mama.
- Anney Boatwright: Oh, Jesus, Glen! You don't know your own strength!
- Glen Waddell: I guess, I don't. But Bone knows I never mean to hurt her. Bone knows I love her. Hell Anney! I love all of you, you know that!
- Anney Boatwright: Bone, I got somebody who wants to meet you. Bone, this is Glen Waddell. Say hey.
- Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright: Hey.
- Glen Waddell: Hey, Bone. How you doin'?
- Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright: Fine.
- Glen Waddell: You sit out here every night?
- Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright: After school.
- Anney Boatwright: Glen's not like that.
- Granny: You don't what that boy's like.
- Anney Boatwright: I know he loves me.
- Granny: Love. Can't even hold a job for more than a month.
- Anney Boatwright: That's not true.
- Anney Boatwright: Oh, Jesus, Glen. You don't know your own strength.
- Glen Waddell: I guess I don't. But Bone knows I'd never mean to hurt her. Bone knows I love her. Hell, Anney, I love all of you. You know that.
- Narrator: No, he never meant to hurt me. Not really, I told myself. But more and more those hands seemed to move before he could think.
- Glen Waddell: Bone, what're you doing up here? How many times you gonna make me call you, girl?
- Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright: I didn't hear you.
- Glen Waddell: Didn't hear you? I've been callin' you for five minutes. Your mama needs your help down there.
- Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright: I didn't hear you.
- Glen Waddell: Don't you sass me. Don't you dare sass me. You think just 'cause your aunt died, you can talk to me like that? You're in my house, now. I am the boss of my house. Do you understand that?
- Anney Boatwright: Glen! Of all days, Jesus! Glen!
- Glen Waddell: Anney! Anney!, let me handle this! Please, let me handle this!
- Anney Boatwright: No, Glen! No, Glen! Glen! Glen!