“Honor doesn't count for shit when you're looking at a dead little boy.”
Timothy Hutton - Brian Moreland

“Walking through life with you, ma'am, has been a very gracious thing.”

Errol Flynn - George Armstrong Custer

“Who had mama been? What had she wanted to be or do before I was born? Once I was born her hopes turned, and I climbed up her life like a flower reaching for the sun. Her life had folded into mine. Who would I be when I was 15, 20, 30? Would I be as strong as she had been? As hungry for love? As desperate, determined and ashamed?”
Laura Dern - Narrator

“- Claudia: Do you ever think what our lives would be like if we had the baby?
- Charlie: Yeah, we'd be miserable.
- Claudia: 'Cause we're just so happy now, huh?
- Charlie: I'm happy. I'm real happy.”
Lauren Holly - Claudia
Edward Burns - Charlie

“If we had kids, we'd be spending every day working hard to feed them, clothe them, put them through school; only for them to tell us to go fuck ourselves when they turn sixteen, you know? No thanks.”

Edward Burns - Charlie