- Romulus Ledbetter: [while riding in the car] Look, Ward's Island. Do you remember that little playground?
- Officer Lulu Ledbetter: [Smiling] Yeah, you said pirates lived there once. And there was buried treasure. You used to call me "Captain."
- Romulus Ledbetter: [Nods] You used to dig in that sandbox for gold.
- Officer Lulu Ledbetter: Once I found a balloon there.
- Romulus Ledbetter: [Chuckles] You thought you found a balloon there.
- Officer Lulu Ledbetter: [Gasping in realization] No! No!
- Romulus Ledbetter: Yeah, you cried when I wouldn't blow it up.
- Officer Lulu Ledbetter: [laughs] You did blow it up for me!
- Romulus Ledbetter: No, no, I bought you a real one.
- [Smiles]
- Officer Lulu Ledbetter: [laughs again] Daddy, thank you for my flowers.
- Romulus Ledbetter: A little late.
- Officer Lulu Ledbetter: Still, it's the only Valentine I got. I didn't get you anything.
- Romulus Ledbetter: Oh, you-you still could if you wanted to. There is something I kind of have my heart set on.
- Officer Lulu Ledbetter: What?
- Romulus Ledbetter: It's something I want more than chocolates or a car, or...
- Officer Lulu Ledbetter: [Smiles] What do you want, Daddy?
- Romulus Ledbetter: The autopsy report on Scotty Gates.
- Officer Lulu Ledbetter: [sighs in frustration] I wish I could shake you. Just shake all that crazy shit out of your head. Goddamn!
- [Slams fist on dashboard and pulls over to the side of the road]
- Officer Lulu Ledbetter: Just a second. Just for a fucking second, it was like... like we were talking again. Like I was actually talking to my father.
- [Tears roll down her cheeks]
- Officer Lulu Ledbetter: You break my heart.
- Romulus Ledbetter: Sheila, what are you doing here?
- Sheila: Watching you make a fool of yourself. What are YOU doing here?
- Romulus Ledbetter: I have to prove Leppenraub is guilty.
- Sheila: Prove to who?
- Romulus Ledbetter: To the world. To... to Lulu.
- Sheila: Lulu needs a father, not some psycho Sherlock Holmes.
- Sheila: So, now you think you're a detective?
- Romulus Ledbetter: I got eyes, Sheila. I can see things other people can't.
- Sheila: Like me?
- [Smiles]
- Sheila: You still think I look like this after all these years?
- [laughs]
- Sheila: You're no smarter than when I married you, are you?
- Romulus Ledbetter: I'm going to find the evidence, Sheila. I'm going to nail this Leppenraub bastard.
- Sheila: Aw, baby, if your shit was a rocketship, you could fly to the moon. Now, why do you have to stick your nose in matters that don't pertain to you? And don't give me some bullshit about love.
- Romulus Ledbetter: The dead boy knew me, Sheila. He called me, "The Voice."
- Sheila: It's Lulu, isn't it? You want to prove yourself to her? You want to earn her respect? Try soap and water. Try getting a job.
- Moira Leppenraub: [after Romulus shows up bruised and bloody] What happened to you?
- Romulus Ledbetter: Your brother's hit men tried to run me over.
- Moira Leppenraub: [laughs] Photographers do not have hit men, Romulus.
- Romulus Ledbetter: Yeah? Well, you tell that to No-Face with the gun.
- Moira Leppenraub: You're psychotic, aren't you?
- Romulus Ledbetter: I... I have brain typhoons.
- Moira Leppenraub: Brain typhoons?
- Romulus Ledbetter: Swarms of moth-seraphs howl in my skull. Lies vex them.
- Moira Leppenraub: Then you'll understand if I don't invite you in.
- Romulus Ledbetter: Mm-hmm.
- [first lines]
- Romulus Ledbetter: Don't you watch me! You think you're gonna crawl into my brain and see a show? That what I am? Is that what you think?
- Social Worker: What I think, Mr. Ledbetter, is that the temperature is dropping.
- Romulus Ledbetter: I got freezing temperatures all over my brain. And I got legends of angels up there! Like little moths, and they'll beat the hell out of you with their wings!
- Romulus Ledbetter: [to dog] You think I'm running a con, don't you. You think I'm the shoes and not the suit.
- Moira Leppenraub: Arnold tells me you're a genius.
- Romulus Ledbetter: At what?
- Moira Leppenraub: Music.
- Romulus Ledbetter: Oh - is that all?
- Moira Leppenraub: Why, is there more?
- Romulus Ledbetter: Well, I can put a lit match in my mouth, and when the lights are out I look like a jack-o-lantern.
- David Leppenraub: If the price of rapture is a mountain of suffering, shouldn't the fee be paid?
- Romulus Ledbetter: So long as nobody gets hurt.
- Sheila: [Romulus wakes up in Moira's with Sheila nearby] Some white girls will fuck any kind of black man. Crazy... even homeless.
- Romulus Ledbetter: Leave me alone, Sheila.
- Sheila: So... what do you call yourself doing? Digging for evidence?
- Romulus Ledbetter: I'm getting close. Something happened here. I can feel it.
- Sheila: [Glances toward Moira and smirks] I bet you can. You better open up your eyes and take a look around.
- Romulus Ledbetter: Leave me alone. How did you get in here, anyway?
- Sheila: I rode in on your dreams.
- Romulus Ledbetter: Well, ride on out.
- Sheila: You better wake up, baby, before you get murdered in your sleep. You hear me? You better wake up...