"They said later, it should have taken longer to pack up a whole life. It was disappointing to realize that everything that ever mattered to you could be gathered up in a few short hours."

"The attacks were originally attributed to ghosts and demons. When the women woke up feeling drowsy and in pain, their bodies bruised and bleeding, many believed they were being made to suffer as punishment for their sins. Many accused the women of lying for attention or to cover up adultery."

"We saw our bodies from above, not knowing if this was how God saw us, or because we didn't want to be in them."

"Sometimes I think people laugh as hard as they'd like to cry."

"[narrating] We didn't talk about our bodies. So when something like this happened there was no language for it. And without language for it, there was a gaping silence. And in that gaping silence was the real horror."

"We know we were made to sleep with cow tranquilizer!"

"I cannot forgive them. I will never forgive them."

"I will destroy any living thing that harms my child. I will tear it limb from limb. I will desecrate its body and I will bury it alive. I will challenge God on the spot to strike me dead if I have sinned by protecting my child from evil, and my destroying that evil that it may not harm another. I will lie, I will hunt, I will kill. I will dance on graves and I will burn forever in hell before I allow another man to satisfy his violent urges with the body of my four year old child."

"When we have liberated ourselves, we will have to ask ourselves who we are."

"Surely, there must be something worth living for in this life, not only in the next."

"Why does love - the absence of love, the end of love, the need for love - result in so much violence?"

"Hope for the unknown is good. It is better than hatred of the familiar."

"The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell."

"Katie Withers – Jules"

"Michael Socha – Michael"

"Kerry Stacey – Social worker"

"Andrea Lowe – Vicky"

"Craig Parkinson – Boahen"

"Lauren Socha – Lauren"

"Robert Carlyle – Father"

"Susan Lynch – Mother"

"Molly Windsor – Lucy"

"I don't want to do this to you. I don't want to do this to you. Tell me where the fucking money is! What did you do with the money? Where did you put it? Did you smoke the cigarettes? Are you smoking the cigarettes? What am I supposed to do?"

"Don't lie to me, Lucy. Last time. Where's the money."

"You did! You did! You don't just fucking lose money like that. That's all we had. That's all we had. What am I gonna do? What am I to do with you now? You're gonna make me angry. You're making me angry now. You're making me angry now. You've got one last chance. Where's the money? Where's the fucking money?"

"You've either got the cigarettes or you've got the money, Lucy. Where is it?"

"I've been waiting for you, baby, you know. I've been waiting for you for two hours now, you know. Where have you been? The shop's round the corner."

"I don't fucking need this, Tom. I don't understand this. You know it hurts us. Are you just Iying or do you believe it? It's gotta stop. Can't have it, mate. Sorry I smacked you, but you hurt me. You don't know how feel. Mummy's all upset... Is it an attention thing. Alice...is that what it is? Sometimes it happens when a baby comes along. You know, it's the facts of life. I'd never put you in a home. I love you, I'd never put..."

"Annabelle Apsion - Nurse"

"Kim Wall - Barman"

"Kate Ashfield - Lucy"

"Aisling O'Sullivan - Carol"

"See what happens when you put things into people's heads? It steam-rollers on... and other people start to believe it. You gotta get rid of these thoughts, Tom. You gotta stop it. They're wrong, you know they're wrong. You're not sick, you're just, erm... just going through your teens. It happened to me. Are you pregnant? Is that what it is? Is it? See how you can put things into people's heads? I suppose I'll be doing it with him next. You can't keep saying these things, darling."

"Colin Farrell - Nick"

"Freddie Cunliffe - Tom"

"Lara Belmont - Jessie"

"Tilda Swinton - Mum"

"Ray Winstone - Dad"

"Don't you fucking talk to me! Get to fucking bed! How can you fucking say that to me?! You're fucking sick! You talk to me like that in front of your sister?! You're ill! You go behind my fucking back to your mother. You break this family up and I'll kill you. You're so fucking sick, you're going into care, Son! You're fucking going, you shit! You tell me things like that?! You're a fucking animal. Who the fucking hell are you?! You fucking talk like that? You're fucking ill. You're going to a fucking home. You're fucking scum! What are you doing to me?! What are you fucking doing?! You're fucking killing me. Fucking kid. Fucking animal. How can you talk like that? You go to your mother behind my back and talk shit?! You're fucking sick in the head. Something fucking wrong with you. Two years! Two years I've had this fucking kid. Two schools I've pulled him out of. Fucking trouble. You're breaking my family up, breaking this fucking family up. You break this family up and I swear, I'll fucking kill you. I'll fucking kill you. What are you doing to me? What are you doing to me? I'm going to the hospital... talk to your mother. He's filth. You're going into fucking care. I'll fucking sort this out. Getting fucking paranoid. Everyone's getting fucking paranoid. I can't fucking deal with this."

"Gabourey Sidibe - Claireece Precious Jones"

"My name is Claireece Precious Jones. I wish I had a light-skinned boyfriend with real nice hair. And I wanna be on the cover of a magazine. But first I wanna be in one of them BET videos. Momma said I can't dance. Plus, she said who wants to see my big ass dancing, anyhow?"

"There's always something wrong with these tests. These tests paint a picture of me with no brain. These tests paint a picture of me and my mother, my whole family as less than dumb. Just ugly black grease, need to be wiped away, find a job for."

"I'm gonna break through or somebody gonna break through to me."

"The other day, I cried. I felt stupid. But you know what? Fuck that day. That's why God, or whoever, makes new days. Still hungry, though."

"[to her mother] You know, to this day, I never even knew who you was, not even after all them things you did. Maybe I was too stupid. Maybe I just didn't want to. You ain't gonna see me no more."

"See, I think right now you think you becomin' a grown woman. 'Cause that shit you pulled in the kitchen... I shoulda fucked you up. But I let you walk away. And I let you get yourself together. But, bitch, I'mma let you know, don't you ever pull that shit again. That'll be your last mothafuckin' day stayin here. I promise you that. You gon' send a white bitch to my mothafuckin' buzzer? Talkin' 'bout some higher education? You're a dummy, bitch! You will never know shit! Don't nobody want you, don't nobody need you! You done fucked around and fucked my mothafuckin' man? And had two mothafuckin' children? And one of 'ems a goddamn animal, runnin' 'round lookin' crazy as a mothafucka? Bitch, you know what? See, I think you... I think you tryin' me. I think you tryin' to fuck with me. You fuckin' with my money... and you gon' stand up there and look at me like you a mothafuckin' woman? I'mma show you what real women do, bitch. See, you don't know what real mothafuckin' women do. Real mothafuckin' women sacrifice! I shoulda aborted your mothafuckin' ass! 'Cause you ain't shit! I knew it when the doctor put you in my goddamn hand you wasn't a goddamn thing! You wear that smirk on your face, bitch?"

"Mo'Nique - Mary Jones"

"Paula Patton - Ms. Blu Rain"

"Mariah Carey - Mrs. Weiss"