"My name is Dedee Truitt. I'm sixteen, and this is Creve Coeur, Louisiana... which is French, I think, for like, 'fuck…"

"If you think I'm just plucky and scrappy and all I need is love, you're in over your heads. I don't have a heart of g…"

"My mother was the kind of mother who always said she was her daughter's best friend. Whenever she did, I thought, "Gr…"

"Rule one of sex: a person can do anything for ten minutes if they don't breath in."

"Seems like everybody's having sex but me. Good for them. It's not that I'm against sex. I mean, it was clever of God …"

"[Refusing heterosexual sex with Dedee] I've never tried communism, but I know I wouldn't like that. It's the same thi…"

"Girl Student: This is America, and we're Christians here - aside from a few Jewish people who were just born that way…"

"Christina Ricci - Dedee Truitt"

"Martin Donovan - Bill Truitt"

"Lisa Kudrow - Lucia De Lury"