- Sarah Roberts: What's that piece you're playing?
- Miriam Blaylock: It's "Lakme" by Lilliam. Lakme is a Brahmin princess in India, she has a slave named Malika.
- Sarah Roberts: Malika...
- Miriam Blaylock: In a magical garden they sing how they follow the stream to its source, gliding over the water.
- Sarah Roberts: Is it a love song?
- Miriam Blaylock: I told you, it was sung by two women.
- Sarah Roberts: It sounds like a love song.
- Miriam Blaylock: Then I suppose that's what it is.
- Sarah Roberts: Are you making a pass at me, Mrs. Blaylock?
- Miriam Blaylock: Miriam.
- Sarah Roberts: Miriam.
- Miriam Blaylock: Not that I'm aware of, Sarah.
- [Sarah smiles, shakes her head, and then spills wine on her top]
- Miriam Blaylock: Humankind dies one way, we another. Their end is final. Ours is not. In the earth, in rotting wood, in the eternal darkness, we will see and hear and feel.
- Lieutenant Allegrezza: Lieutenant Allegrezza.
- Miriam Blaylock: [smiles]
- Lieutenant Allegrezza: I don't usually get a smile on that...
- Miriam Blaylock: You should: this mean "good cheer."
- Lieutenant Allegrezza: That's right.
- John Blaylock: You said forever. Never ending. Do you remember?
- Miriam Blaylock: Everyday.
- John Blaylock: Forever you said.
- Miriam Blaylock: Forever and ever.
- John Blaylock: Never growing old. Do you? Remember?
- Miriam Blaylock: Stop it.
- John Blaylock: Forever young.
- Miriam Blaylock: Stop it.
- John Blaylock: Kiss. Kiss me. Think of me as I was. Kiss me like that.
- Sarah Roberts: I like your pendent.
- Miriam Blaylock: Its Egyptian. It was the symbol of everlasting life.
- Alice Cavender: What's wrong with him?
- Miriam Blaylock: He'll be all right. He's having trouble sleeping.
- Alice Cavender: Want some 'ludes? I've got some in my case.
- Miriam Blaylock: What?
- Alice Cavender: Quaaludes.
- Miriam Blaylock: Alice!
- Alice Cavender: I stole 'em from my stepmother.
- Miriam Blaylock: Alice!
- Alice Cavender: She doesn't care; she gets them by the gross! She's got every pill ever invented! She collects them.
- Miriam Blaylock: Poor woman.
- Alice Cavender: That's what my dad says. 'Cause she's scared of getting old.
- John Blaylock: Dr. Roberts.
- Sarah Roberts: Yeah.
- John Blaylock: You Iet me down.
- Sarah Roberts: Beg your pardon?
- John Blaylock: You didn't beIieve me. You made me sit here for over two hours.
- Sarah Roberts: Mr. BIayIock?
- John Blaylock: You had your meeting to go to. Fifteen minutes, you said. You Iied. Just thought I was some ridicuIous oId crank.
- Sarah Roberts: Mr. BIayIock, wait, pIease.
- John Blaylock: Wait? I can't wait.
- Sarah Roberts: What have you done to me?
- Miriam Blaylock: I've given you something you never dared dream of.
- Sarah Roberts: What?
- Miriam Blaylock: EverIasting Iife.
- Miriam Blaylock: My husband is not here.
- Sarah Roberts: When wiII he be back?
- Miriam Blaylock: He's gone to SwitzerIand.
- Tom Haver: What's that?
- Sarah Roberts: What?
- Tom Haver: The chain around your neck.
- Sarah Roberts: It's an ankh. It's Egyptian. Miriam gave it to me. Mrs. BIayIock. The woman that I went to see this afternoon.
- Sarah Roberts: I'm getting out of here.
- Miriam Blaylock: You'II be back. When The Hunger hurts so much you've Iost reason, then you'II have to feed, and then you'II need me to show you how.
- Miriam Blaylock: l'm sure we could talk for hours, you and l, but l suppose you're very busy.
- Sarah Roberts: No, not too busy. What about you?
- Miriam Blaylock: Me? You wouId think me mostIy idIe, I'm afraid. My time is my own.
- Sarah Roberts: [on the phone] May I speak to Dr. Tom Haver, pIease? What do you mean he's gone home? No, but he's not there. I aIready caIIed the apartment. No, he can't caII me. I'm in a booth.
- 2nd Phone Booth Youth: Hey, lady, how 'bout it?
- 1st Phone Booth Youth: Come on, Iady. How 'bout it? Huh?
- [Sarah runs away]
- 1st Phone Booth Youth: Crazy fuckin' junkie.