Marcia Gay Harden credited as playing...
Verna
- Tom Reagan: All in all not a bad guy - if looks, brains and personality don't count.
- Verna: You better hope they don't.
- Verna: Maybe that's why I like you, Tom. I've never met anyone who made being a son of a bitch such a point of pride. Though one day you'll pay the price for it.
- Verna: What're you chewin' over?
- Tom Reagan: Dream I had once. I was walkin' in the woods, I don't know why. Wind came up and blew me hat off.
- Verna: And you chased it, right? You ran and ran, finally caught up to it and you picked it up. But it wasn't a hat anymore and it changed into something else, something wonderful.
- Tom Reagan: Nah, it stayed a hat and no, I didn't chase it. Nothing more foolish than a man chasin' his hat.
- Verna: Admit you don't like me seeing Leo because you're jealous. Admit that you've got a heart, even though it may be small and feeble, and you can't remember the last time you used it.
- Tom Reagan: If I'd known we were casting feelings into words, I'd have memorized the Song of Solomon.
- Verna: I thought you said you didn't care about Leo no more.
- Tom Reagan: I said we're through. That's not the same thing.
- Verna: Do me a favor and mind your own business.
- Tom Reagan: This is my business. Intimidating helpless women is part of what I do.
- Verna: Then go find one and intimidate her.
- Verna: Leo's got the right idea. I like him, he's honest and he's got a heart.
- Tom Reagan: Then it's true what they say. Opposites attract.
- Verna: Why don't we just pick up and leave town? There's nothing keeping you here. I know there's nothing keeping me.
- Tom Reagan: What about Bernie?
- Verna: He could go with us.
- Tom Reagan: You, me and Bernie; where would we go, Verna? Niagara Falls?
- Verna: That's not why you came, either.
- Tom Reagan: Tell me why I came.
- Verna: [seductively] The oldest reason there is.
- Tom Reagan: There are friendlier places to drink.
- Verna: What you doing?
- Tom Reagan: Walking...
- Verna: Don't let on any more than you have to.
- Tom Reagan: ...in the rain.
- Verna: I guess we both double-crossed Leo. He's well rid of us both. The two of us Tom, we're about bad enough to deserve each other.
- Tom Reagan: Are we?
- Verna: We're a couple of heels, Tom. Yes we are.
- Tom Reagan: Who's the war paint for?
- Verna: Go home and dry out.
- Tom Reagan: You don't need it for Leo. Believe me. He already thinks you're the original Miss Jesus.