- Annibale Pezzi: Look, I know you've got your head in heaven. And mine's down here. But we can meet somewhere in between.
- Suor Germana: And where would that be?
- Annibale Pezzi: The eyes. It's always the eyes. Always.
- Ottolenghi: Life is - life - life is terrible.
- Annibale Pezzi: The important thing is to stick to what you've always believed in right to the very end.
- Annibale Pezzi: I want your opinion. What if a good Communist just happened to fall in love with a nun. Is that betraying the Party?
- Suor Germana: I know about the world. I chose to leave it. And it wasn't hard. I simply had the vocation to serve my faith. You of all people should understand. Hey, would you give up the Party for a woman?
- Annibale Pezzi: In a minute. Because for me there are things called priorities. Women first, and the Party next.
- [Germana laughs]
- Annibale Pezzi: What's so funny?
- Suor Germana: Everything. You're a fine Communist.
- Annibale Pezzi: He's in no condition to decide. And that's why I'm here, to stop the church deciding things for him.
- Annibale Pezzi: You're out to get me, just because I happen to be a communist.
- Suor Germana: I admit I think you're naive to be a communist. I think that if men were more honest, communism would work. There are too few honest men.
- Suor Germana: We have more in common than you think. I was born and raised in Libya. That makes me more of a southerner than you.
- Mrs. Ricci: How the hell am I supposed to sleep with all this noise? I can't even get any rest here. It's not a hospital, it's a bordello!
- Suor Germana: Before you arrived, it was a hospital.
- Lucia: The police can't help me. They don't care about what happens to us. Nobody cares about us. We're just trash that moved up from the south. That's all we are to them.
- Suor Germana: You mustn't give up, Lucia. Don't you see that?
- Lucia: No, I don't see. Being a nun, you can't possibly know what it's like for anyone to be cut off from a normal way of life.
- Suor Germana: I do, Lucia. It's going to turn out all right. If you believe it will. Do you?
- Lucia: No.
- Annibale Pezzi: You little whore. You let everyone have a feel, don't you?
- Martina: I don't!
- Annibale Pezzi: You're a two-faced slut. I saw you.
- [starts copping a feel]
- Martina: Not here! Do you want to get me fired?
- Annibale Pezzi: Nobody will see us. We've done it here before. Besides, you arouse me! I want you right now!
- Annibale Pezzi: Something's wrong here.
- Annibale Pezzi: What do you mean "wrong"?
- Martina: One tit's smaller than the other.
- Annibale Pezzi: Nah.
- Martina: Sure it is. Feel!
- Lucia: We're from Calabria. Me and Antonio. We came up north together. We both found work right away. And we were going to get married, almost like in a dream. Everything was fine. Then we lost our jobs. The economy was bad, they said. So they started firing people. The southerners first, naturally. He took it hard. He just sat all day at home. Then one day, a friend - came and offered him a way to make easy money. I knew how he'd end up. So I told him that I'd make money for him.
- Suor Germana: He let you?
- Lucia: Oh, not right away. He nearly killed me when I first mentioned it. But before long, he lost his scruples.