Joanne Woodward credited as playing...
Rachel Cameron
- Nurse: The operation was a success. You're out of danger.
- Rachel Cameron: How can I be out of danger if I'm not dead?
- [Last lines]
- Rachel Cameron: [Thinking] Where I'm going, anything may happen. Nothing may happen. Maybe I'll find a friend. Maybe I'll even marry a middle-aged widower and have children in my time. Most of the chances are against it, but not, I think, quite all. It may be that my children will always be temporary, never to be held. But so are everyone's. I will be afraid, always. I may be lonely, always. What will happen? What will happen?
- Rachel Cameron: Oh, guess who invited me for supper tonight, and I said "No". The groper.
- Calla Mackie: He probably serves rat. Come on up after, I bought you a... a nothing gift.
- Rachel Cameron: What?
- Calla Mackie: A companion that needs taking care of. But unlike your mother, it doesn't talk back.
- Rachel Cameron: [On the phone with her mother in the room] Hello?
- Nick Kazlik: [On the other line] Hello.
- Rachel Cameron: Oh. Oh, hello!
- Nick Kazlik: My folks are away for the weekend. So, I thought maybe you'd like to play house. We got, like, three bedrooms, so we can chase each other from room to room between - you know.
- Rachel Cameron: Yes! I'd - I'd love to read that book. That sounds very interesting. Can you get it from the public library?
- Nick Kazlik: Oh, you can't talk, right?
- Rachel Cameron: Right. At this moment, I'm Venus observed.
- Nick Kazlik: I'll pick you up in an hour. We can go to the store and stock up and you can cook us huge meals in between - raptures.
- Rachel Cameron: I'm exactly in the middle of my life. This is my last ascending summer. Everything else from now on is just rolling downhill into my grave.
- Leighton Siddley: You know, you ought to take a nerve relaxer. I do. Once the tension's gone, sleep can be a very - sensual experience.
- Rachel Cameron: Leighton, is there something special you have in mind?
- Rachel Cameron: You're out on the job early this morning.
- Hector Jonas: Yes. I had the damnedest nightmares all night long.
- Rachel Cameron: Guilty conscience?
- Hector Jonas: Don't I wish.
- Calla Mackie: We're off to the library to look at castles and keeps. What are you off to?
- Rachel Cameron: We're going to be fairies and butterflies.
- Calla Mackie: Ooh.
- Rachel Cameron: I'm gonna get a good suntan. No, I'm not. Every summer, I say that and I buy oodles of suntan lotion and at the end of the summer, I'm still just as pale as a mushroom.
- Mrs. Cameron: I heard the most awful thing about the Stewart girl today. Cassie Stewart has, shall we say: been away.
- Rachel Cameron: Been away with quotation marks?
- Mrs. Cameron: Double quotation marks. Twins. And no prospect of a husband in sight.
- Mrs. Cameron: You're awfully late this evening, dear. I almost gave up.
- Rachel Cameron: I'm sorry.
- Mrs. Cameron: I don't enjoy sitting here entertaining the pots and pans.
- Rachel Cameron: I keep house for my mother. I have since my father died.
- Nick Kazlik: I didn't know he died.
- Rachel Cameron: There's no need for condolences. It was 14 years ago.
- Nick Kazlik: That's a lot of housekeeping.