- Pierre Arrignon: [to a Monk asking for a donation] I'm broke.
- Monk: As long as there is good...
- Pierre Arrignon: But there isn't any.
- Pierre Arrignon: So, you're unhappy, too?
- Marta Manfredini: I've never known happiness.
- Pierre Arrignon: Can you live without it?
- Marta Manfredini: Seems so. I try to forget by working.
- Pierre Arrignon: It helps like - dope.
- Marta Manfredini: The harder it gets, the tougher I get.
- Marta Manfredini: I live in the ruins.
- Pierre Arrignon: The war?
- Marta Manfredini: Some people never get over it. Others start again, in a small way. Slowly, one goes on, starting at the bottom. That's how it is.
- Pierre Arrignon: Life is cockeyed!
- Marta Manfredini: At least, it's life. That's something.
- Title Card: War and the causes of war, hatred and suspicion, have caused people to look, not into their immortal souls, but to the sordid and the brutal. Let them look, not at the wall, the symbol of darkness, but through it, with the illuminated eyes of faith, to the greener fields where with hope and charity they will find peace and contentment.
- Marta Manfredini: I've told you! I don't want you around!
- Giuseppe, le mari de Marta: But you're my wife. Return to Nice or I'll force you to give up the kid.
- Marta Manfredini: No! Never! Never! I slave as a servant to make us independent of you. I don't want her to know where and how you live. We're living in poverty, but that doesn't matter. Go! Leave me alone!
- Marta Manfredini: So long, Pierre.
- Pierre Arrignon: You know my name?
- Marta Manfredini: Cecchina told me.
- Pierre Arrignon: So long, Marta.
- Marta Manfredini: You know *my* name?
- Pierre Arrignon: Like all the customers.
- Marta Manfredini: I see no farther than my nose, anyhow.
- Pierre Arrignon: What do you see there?
- Marta Manfredini: Eating, sleeping, the days passing, my daughter growing.
- Pierre Arrignon: [boarding a crowded bus] Let's take a taxi.
- Marta Manfredini: Why? This stops in front of the restaurant.
- Pierre Arrignon: So does a taxi.
- Marta Manfredini: You seem to resent me loving you.
- Pierre Arrignon: You don't think that, do you?
- Marta Manfredini: Does it hurt you to make me happy?
- Pierre Arrignon: You're not happy.
- Marta Manfredini: I might have been happy before with a man. How lucky it didn't happen. I've missed nothing, *now*.
- Pierre Arrignon: And you take a dumb-bell like me?
- Marta Manfredini: A bell?
- Pierre Arrignon: Not the church sort of bell. A dumb-bell is a stupid person. You'll have to learn French slang.
- Marta Manfredini: Yes - my little dumb-bell.
- Marta Manfredini: Guess what my boss said?
- Pierre Arrignon: What? That I owe him 2000 lire?
- Marta Manfredini: No. That we'd make a nice couple.
- Pierre Arrignon: Ah. The boss is always right.
- Pierre Arrignon: I'm not handsome but your beauty makes up for it.
- Marta Manfredini: The woman has to be pretty.
- Pierre Arrignon: And she must obey too.
- Marta Manfredini: She'll do as you say. You'll have to explain a lot of things she doesn't know. She has never loved. She's not very smart.
- Pierre Arrignon: I'd like to see the future as you see it.
- Marta Manfredini: Even with your eyes open, you mustn't give up hope, Pierre.