Phil Woode: Does your ex-husband make a habit of standing guard out there?
Danielle Breton: (slightly drunk) Why he's always following me? What is so terrible is his persistence. He says that we can work a truce but I don't want to work a truce. Sometimes there is no solution.

Grace Collier: (on phone) I'm sorry you feel that way detective but I have to write it the way I see it. Sometimes the police are wrong. Look, this is ridiculous. We can't discuss it now. A man is bleeding to death.

Grace: I saw a murder, and I'm going to prove it!

Detective Kelly: (to Danielle) Something very unusual occurred this morning. It seems that Miss Collier happened to glance out of her window and saw something which so shocked and disturbed her that she called the police department.

Grace: He wrote Help on the window in his own blood and I watched him write it!

Grace: Working for the Staten Island Panorama is a bit of a joke. You know what my next assignment is?
Grace's Mother: No, I don't
Grace: I'm having lunch tomorrow with an 80-year-old ex-con who's just carved an entire replica of the Danberry Penitentiary out of soup.
Grace's Mother: Ah, that's interesting.
Grace: OH, I want to write about the apathy in the police force...where the heroine goes after a bust...
Grace's Mother: Shhhhhhhh!
Grace: I'm on to something BIG!
Grace's Mother: Are you on diet pills again?

Joseph Larch: Grace, this is a craft. I wouldn't try to teach you how to write magazine articles. Listen, I went to school to learn this - The Brooklyn Modern School of Investigation, ok? OK! Now you go up to your apartment and do what I told you. Go ahead. I'll be here.

Joseph: The body is in the couch!

Dr. Pierre Milius: It seems the older they become the more precarious is their psychological balance, both within themselves and with one another. In this I am in agreement with my colleagues: Dominique is the truly disturbed one...

Compiled by Jeff Stafford