- Jolene: What you gonna do at night?
- Young Beth Harmon: I'm gonna stay awake as long as I can, reading my book, learning the Sicilian Defense. There's 57 pages about it in the book, with 170 lines stemming from P to QB4. I'm gonna memorize them and play through them all in my mind.
- Jolene: Poor mind.
- Alma Wheatley: Though I am no longer a wife, except by a legal fiction, I believe I can learn to be a mother
- D.L. Townes: Jesus Christ, Harmon, you're humiliating my rook.
- Beth Harmon: He won't have to suffer much longer.
- D.L. Townes: How old are you? Never mind. Don't answer that, It'll just depress me.
- Beth Harmon: I'm 36.
- Matt: We don't have a women's section. I'll put you in the beginners.
- Beth Harmon: I'm not a beginner.
- Mike: It doesn't matter. If you're an unrated player, you go in beginners with the people under sixteen hundred.
- Beth Harmon: Is it against any rule for me to be in the Open?
- Mike: Not exactly.
- Beth Harmon: Put me in the Open.