- Lolly Ann Summers: Dear God, while father and mother are on the highway, please let the earth open wide and swallow them whole. Amen.
- Lolly Ann Summers: [to parents' friend] If all of you aren't there, Hell should be a big improvement!
- [first lines]
- Mrs. Summers: Lolly? Lolly! I know you're playing possum.
- [yanks back covers]
- Mrs. Summers: Now, little Missy. "Men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil." John 3:19.
- Joseph: "Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."
- [quote from Ishmael on "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville born Melvill]