Margene: Nicki, can I tell you a secret?
Nicki: If you must

Nicki doesn't have a mom anymore, so she's trying to steal mine

Margie

You're my wife, Margene. You can't be seeing the girl I'm dating.

Bill

Poor Joey and Wanda. They're all they've got. No other spouses to lean on. How are they going to make it through this crisis with only each other?

Nicki

Nicki: I didn't marry for love. I married for the principle.
Barb: I didn't. I tried. I don't know if I have a testimony for the principle. But I love you, I love our family more and more.
Nicki: That frightens me. I don't know that a marriage based on love can go the distance. The secret holiness of the institution. The sanctity of marriage. Without it, it's just random couplings, with no purpose or sticktoitiveness. How will we survive the bad times on just love?

I don't think anybody knows, mom, and not everybody cares

Sarah [about polygamy]

Big Love Season 2 Quotes

Nicki: I didn't marry for love. I married for the principle.
Barb: I didn't. I tried. I don't know if I have a testimony for the principle. But I love you, I love our family more and more.
Nicki: That frightens me. I don't know that a marriage based on love can go the distance. The secret holiness of the institution. The sanctity of marriage. Without it, it's just random couplings, with no purpose or sticktoitiveness. How will we survive the bad times on just love?

I don't think anybody knows, mom, and not everybody cares

Sarah [about polygamy]