- Verna: Now, you and I have known each other all our lives, we only tell each other the truth. I'm gonna tell you the truth about this poem. I think what you have here is dynamite. I think this's gonna blow up in your face. You know. I blew up in my momma's face.
- Millicent Torkelson: She's fourteen years old, and she's fantasizin'. Fantasizin' is all you have at fourteen.
- Verna: No, honey, fantasizing is all you have at thirty-six.
- Millicent Torkelson: Yeah, well, that's true.
- Verna: She's just your precious baby girl, and you love her, and you can't see past that, but darlin', at fourteen you have curiosity, and exploration. I remember when I was her age, boys were all I thought about.
- Millicent Torkelson: Me, too.
- Verna: Hmmm. And then I got married. Just sucked the life right outta me.