- Harry Ambrose: [to Cora] I'm guessing that this isn't where you thought you'd be when you woke up this morning, is it? I think you would agree that people don't usually stab other people because they're playing their music too loud.
- Cora Tannetti: I realize that.
- Harry Ambrose: And you can tell us anything. Whatever you can
- Cora Tannetti: I don't know. I just... I just did it. And I don't know why.
- Cora Tannetti: [about Frankie Belmont] I'm telling you, I've never met him before.
- Dan Leroy: Then why kill him?
- Cora Tannetti: 'Cause they were playing that music, and they kept turning it up.
- Harry Ambrose: [about Cora murdering Frankie Belmont] She attacks him in public, and there are knife wounds all over the place. That's an impulse killing; it's emotional; that's why this doesn't make any sense.
- Cora's Mom: [to a 4-year-old Cora] When you were a baby inside of me, you took up all my strength, enough for three children. So when Phoebe came, there wasn't any left for her. That's why she's so sick, but I prayed in that hospital, I prayed like I've never prayed before, and it worked. You see? He was testing me. It's all a test. Every single thing he expects of us, every single thing he expects of us, we have to do. Do you understand? Do you?
- Cora (4 y.o.): Yes.
- Cora's Mom: It's the only way she'll live.