- Wesley Tate: How come I'm going backwards?
- Emma Tate: Because you don't look ahead, that's why. You can't just believe people when they look you in the eyes. You have to look behind them. And see what they're standing in front of, what they're hiding. Everybody's hiding.
- Ella Tate: You know what this is? It's a curse. I can feel it. Goes back in back to little cells and genes. It's tiny little swimming things just making up their minds without us. Plotting in the womb. Before that even, in the air... we pass it on. We inherit it. And pass it down. Just goes on and on like that. Without us.
- Weston Tate: [remembering something Taylor said during their business meeting] "Welcome home, Wes!" Real piece of shit.
- Wesley Tate: [talking about their farm] I ain't leaving.
- Ella Tate: We're all leaving. He sealed the deal, the whole enchilada. Over. Including your father.
- Wesley Tate: You're too late, you missed the boat. He already sold it.
- Ella Tate: What? Where is he? Couldn't sell a goddamn shoe-string.
- [last lines]
- Wesley Tate: Long silence. No sound, so sight. Plain still hanging. Hearts still pounding. And no sound. Then mom, crying soft. Soft crying. And no sound. Then sofly crying, then moving around the house. Then, no moving. Then sofly crying and stopping. And far off, the freeway can be heard.
- Ella Tate: We're not rich, we're not poor.
- Wesley Tate: What are we, then?
- Ella Tate: Somewhere in between.
- Weston Tate: So, now where you've been at? That fancy lawyer of yours?
- Ella Tate: I've been to jail, like I said.
- Weston Tate: On visit?
- Ella Tate: Yeah, I was visiting our daughter.
- Weston Tate: What?
- Ella Tate: Possession of firearms, malicious vandalism, breaking and entering, assault, violation of equestrian regulations...