- Howard: After all I've done for you, it should be automatic. Family is family! Blood is blood! You don't ask questions. You protect your own.
- Ian: You think we've committed some kind of unnatural act, but we haven't. The whole of human life is about violence. It's a cruel world, Terry.
- [first lines]
- Ian: Ah, she's a beauty! I mean, look her - she's not new, but she looks new. He said the engine needed work.
- Terry: I could do the engine.
- Ian: I can't believe he's asking so little. It's practically a steal.
- Terry: John Anderson said we could keep it at his marina - free of charge - at least for a year till his son comes back.
- Ian: Ah, here he comes. Don't show you're too eager or he won't budge on the price, all right?
- Terry: Right.
- Mother: Everybody predicted great things for Ian. He's so nice looking and personable. Now, it's a mystery to me why he's not more successful.
- Father: Because he's not content with what he has. He sees himself like Howard, with a fancy life. Always got some scheme. Always waiting for his ship to come in.
- Mother: Well, his ship won't come in at the restaurant. He does that out of a son's love for his father.
- Father: Like the poet said, "The only ship certain to come in has black sails."