- Louise Howell: "I love you" is such an inadequate way of saying I love you. It doesn't quite describe how much it hurts sometimes.
- Dr. Harvey Williard: How many does this make?
- Interne: Twenty today: 1 manic, 3 seniles, 6 alcoholics, and 10 schizos.
- Dr. Harvey Williard: Going up all the time. This civilization of ours is a worse disease than heart trouble or tuberculosis, and we can't escape it.
- David Sutton: I'm sorry, Louise. I seldom hit a woman, but if you don't leave me alone, I'll wind up kicking babies.
- David Sutton: All right. Well, go ahead and shoot. Mathematically, the chances of your hitting me are slight. And as far as killing me, well, I don't think you're that good a shot.
- Carol Graham: [arriving at the bar where David has obviously had a few drinks already] Hello. I'm not late, am I?
- David Sutton: No. I just came early so I could get in few practice swings.
- Louise Howell: You've changed, David. Something's changed you.
- David Sutton: No. We were through before I went to Canada. I suppose I should have put that in writing.
- Louise Howell: But now you're hard, and bitter.
- David Sutton: Bored, I think, would be a bit closer to it.
- David Sutton: [upon meeting Carol again who he last saw when she was a bratty 11-year-old girl, but is now a shapely 20-year-old woman] Let me look at you. Mm-hmm. Well, you... you haven't grown very much, but... then again, you have.
- Louise Howell: [to Mr. Graham] As for marrying you... it's very flattering. It feels wonderful to be wanted by someone. I needed that feeling right now, more than you'll ever know. Something happens to a woman when she isn't wanted... something dreadful.
- Louise Howell: [on meeting again after long separation] Aren't you going to kiss me?
- David Sutton: I had no plans one way or the other.
- Louise Howell: All right, then. Go ahead and kiss me. You don't have to mean it.
- [he gives her the briefest peck]
- Louise Howell: I didn't expect you to mean it that little.
- David Sutton: When a woman kisses me, Louise, she has to take pot luck.
- Dr. Harvey Williard: It was pain that made her this way. Only through greater pain and suffering beyond belief, can she get well again.