- Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger: You remind me of someone, warden.
- Direktor Meyerbeer: Meyerbeer...
- Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger: My first warden also refused to be called warden.
- Direktor Meyerbeer: Head of penitentiary?
- Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger: SS-Sturmbannführer.
- Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger: Today is my last day. I just want to get my piano.
- Kowalski: Tell me, Mrs. Krüger... What do those guys have that others don't?
- Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger: One's a murderer and the other raped his niece.
- Kowalski: I'll miss you, Mrs. Krüger.
- Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger: Strange how hard it is for both of us.
- Jenny von Loeben: What?
- Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger: ...to be friendly.
- Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger: The words 'sorry', 'please' and 'thank you' are missing in your letter.
- Jenny von Loeben: Sorry. Please. Thank you.
- Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger: You think today was an easy day for me? Why do you think I've stayed here for 60 years?
- Jenny von Loeben: Because of a dead body? Great! A lesbian who likes corpses. You're a perverted freak, madam.
- [first lines]
- Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger: I'm very sorry.
- Direktor Meyerbeer: About what?
- Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger: Them dying.
- Direktor Meyerbeer: I'm sorry about how they died.
- Jenny von Loeben: Nice view eh?
- Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger: Today you did something extraordinary... and then you ruin it all. What is it with you?
- Jenny von Loeben: I knew the window wouldn't break.
- Jenny von Loeben: I ran into before, when my baby was born. Two or three stories up, where the view is even nicer. I was in labor for sixteen hours. When I told the doctor that I... that I couldn't take it anymore he said that I was just a con trying to stay out of prison. They should have done a Cesarian. But they didn't. They just let me tear. I blacked out. When I woke up, the nurse said to me... "Your baby... you baby is gone. It's just gone." Circulatory collapse. His name was Oskar.
- Jenny von Loeben: [sobbing] Shit...
- Jenny von Loeben: Three hours later they took me back to jail.
- Jenny von Loeben: Nice name, Oskar.
- Jenny von Loeben: All you want is people doing a curtsy for you, but I won't do that, ever. For no one.
- [last lines]
- Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger: Give her those few minutes. Please. Please.
- Direktor Meyerbeer: What do you mean by a few minutes?
- Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger: Four.