- Tess Silverman McLeod: I promised to wax your legs and the offer is only good for tonight.
- Jodi Fountain: Oh, great. So I get to stay home and look good or go out and be hairy?
- Becky Howard: Life's cruel like that.
- Claire McLeod: I woke up, you weren't there.
- Peter Johnson: Yeah, look, I was just making you a cuppa tea, that's all.
- Claire McLeod: I feel sick.
- Peter Johnson: Why, what do you mean? Because I wasn't here?
- Claire McLeod: Yes. Because I saw what my life could be like. Waking up every morning in an empty bed, and wondering every time if that meant that you were with someone else.
- Peter Johnson: Oh, look, I would never do that to you.
- Claire McLeod: You did it to your wife.
- Becky Howard: I've never slept with an ex.
- Tess Silverman McLeod: Well, you're smarter than us.
- Becky Howard: Naah, I've just never been out with anyone long enough to make them an ex.
- Jodi Fountain: Why do it? Why torture yourself?
- Meg Fountain: Because you set your eyes on him and your brain goes out the window.
- Tess Silverman McLeod: Yeah, we all think we're sophisticated, intelligent beings, but really we're just like any other animals, ruled by pheromones and hormones.
- Becky Howard: And beer.
- Tess Silverman McLeod: Wish I was like you sometimes.
- Claire McLeod: Why?
- Tess Silverman McLeod: Because you loved Peter. You really, really loved him and you weren't scared of that, you just went for it. I can't, I don't have the guts. Mum loved Jack so much she thought she couldn't live without him. She took pills. I was 11. I remember sitting there, waiting for the ambulance to come, thinking, "I'll never let this happen to me. If this is true love, I don't want it."
- Claire McLeod: Pretty lonely old life.
- Tess Silverman McLeod: No, it's not. I've got you.
- Claire McLeod: It's not the same, Tess.