- Charlie Haggers: It's just that everything seems to be so lowdown bad lately!
- Loretta Haggers: I know, honey, that sometimes it seems like we're the needle stuck in the bad luck groove of the record of life. But you'll see, God's gonna come around and just nudge us on the backtrack any day now.
- Mary Hartman: [spoiler]
- [last lines]
- Mary Hartman: Blanche, Leroy has drowned. Leroy has drowned in a bowl of my chicken soup. I have actually taken a human life with my chicken soup.