- Catherine: You do not have any ideological position. You merely analyze a situation, what you wish to win, and how you would arrange the circumstances to that. No morality, no philosophy, just win.
- Archbishop: It's warming to be seen, isn't it?
- Aunt Elizabeth: Indeed!
- Peter: She regretted it. I saw it, the regret.
- Tatyana: Or you'd outplayed her, and she was too tired to keep fighting.
- Arkady: Five stabs is a lot.
- Grigor Dymov: Anything over three is very tiring.
- Aunt Elizabeth: Darling, you're alive!
- Peter: Yes, but get this: she fucking stabbed me five times!
- Archbishop: You look very well for that.