- Susan Smith: That's the way the devil comes. He don't come to you as evil. He don't come to you on fire. He comes as everything you ever wanted. He comes to you as you.
- Susan Smith: I've been fuckin' your fuckin' husband, you stupid cow! Oh, what? Don't that mean nothin' to you? Don't that make you feel nothin'?
- Kathy Putnam: It makes me feel bad. For you. That you wanted a better life so much that you thought you could just take mine. It's not gonna happen.
- Susan Smith: 'Cause high class ain't a always so good in a woman. If she won't suck your dick at the movies, then what the hell kinda good is she?
- Susan Smith: When a man tells you you're doin' the right thing... he means you're doin' the right thing for him.
- Susan Smith: All I know is every time I fall down, I end up rollin' right back here. I figure that makes this the bottom of the world.
- Mark Putnam: I'm just saying, you've never tried to make a clean break of it, so don't give up hope
- Susan Smith: It's hope that's fuckin' me up.
- Susan Smith: [narrating] There are only two ways to make money in this town since the mines shutdown. One is the funeral business, and the other's selling drugs. Sometimes I wish I was in the funeral business.
- [first lines]
- Susan Smith: [narrating] You know what's the worst thing about being dead? You get too much time to think. Thinking is painful. Knowing things is painful.
- Bob Singer: The Bureau would take your allegations very, very seriously.
- Susan Smith: I look to you like someone who gets revenge by filing a complaint?
- Randy McCoy: Got a name?
- Mark Putnam: Mark Putnam.
- Randy McCoy: Randy McCoy.
- Mark Putnam: Like the Hatfields and McCoys?
- Randy McCoy: Yep. I got that family habit of holdin' a grudge, too.
- Susan Smith: Show me a man who's workin' all the time and I'll show you the woman he's runnin' away from.
- Susan Smith: [narrating] All Mark Putnam wanted, was to be a hero. It was his childhood dream. To be in the F.B.I. and catch bad guys. You catch bad guys for a living, you must be a good guy. Right?
- Kathy Putnam: He already knew he wanted to be in the FBI. It's the most important thing in the world to him.
- Susan Smith: Hmm. Not more than you and the baby.
- Kathy Putnam: I got thrown out of Catholic school for smoking pot. And then I discovered boys, and I really went on a tear. By the time I was eighteen, my nickname was Trouble.
- Susan Smith: When I was eighteen, I wanted to be a Playboy Playmate.