- Rene Jackson: Basically we've started World War 3. I guess Claire can be a real bitch when she wants to be.
- Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' Sims: Well so can you, honey, so don't worry about it.
- Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' Sims: And then she said that my imagery was vivid and brilliant, and that my metaphors were subtle but powerful. I didn't even know I was using metaphors, I usually just write the first thing that pops into my head.
- Young Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien: If I tell you something, you promise not to tell anyone?
- Young Rene Jackson: Promise.
- Young Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien: [open her shirt] See that scar? Last summer I was riding Feather and he threw me. Only I told everyone I fell off the fence.
- Young Rene Jackson: How come?
- Young Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien: Aunt Blanche can be mighty mean, she told me if a horse ever threw her, she'd shoot it, skin it and turn it into glue.
- Young Rene Jackson: Glue?
- [drops her glue brush]
- Young Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien: Uh huh. And if he throws me again, Aunt Blanche is gonna
- [throat cut gesture]
- Rene Jackson: [on the carousel] For future reference, this is as close to a horse as you're ever gonna get me.
- Bill Moody: Why? You afraid of them?
- Rene Jackson: No, I just have a healthy respect for any animal that weighs 2000 pounds more than I do.
- Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' Sims, Rene Jackson: I swear I'd rather die and rot than tell about our secret spot, so cross my heart, I will not tell, cuz if I do I'll go to hell!
- Rene Jackson: I can't believe you remembered!
- Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' Sims: Are you kidding? It's the first thing I ever wrote!