Mrs.Vale: How? By having exercised a mother""s rights?Dr.Jaquith: A mother""s rights, tawdle.A child has rights, a person has rights, to discover her own mistakes, to make her own way, to grow and blossom in her own particular soil.He absent-mindedly searched for his tin star in his pocket: "A man could get himself killed hiding his badge like that.Amanda: Well what did she try to do? She tried to keep her home intact.Adam: Yeah, by knocking off her husband.Amanda: She didn""t knock him off.He""s alive.She didn""t kill him.Adam: She tried.She missed.Amanda: Well, all right.Now supposing -Adam: What do you want to do? Give her another shot at him?Amanda: No, I don""t...[after an arbitrary cut in their conversation] he kind of thing burns my goat!Adam: Your what?Amanda: My goat! My goat!Adam: A crime should be punished, not condoned.We""re just habits, bad habits...And when love""s gone, there""s nothing left but admiration and respect." When she cannot unzip he back of her dress, he assists and has her sit on his lap - and heir love and fondness for each other is rekindled as he reminds her: "You don""t think this is a little intimate, do you? Doesn""t mean anything o you anymore to sit on my lap, huh?.