Billie: We were kids. It was an accident.
Nova: An accident? What you said to my father damaged my relationship with him for the rest of his life. He never looked at me the same.
Billie: We were 18. We both did things back then.
Nova: No. You don't get to get off that easy. You knew exactly what you were doing; that's what made it worse. You did it on purpose.
Billie: I don't remember all the details. All I remember is that I was hurting, and you hurt me too.
Nova: You told my father you were worried about my soul because I might be gay. You outed me, Billie. I came home to questions I wasn't prepared to answer for me or for myself. And for you to sit here and say that it happened accidentally is vile.
Billie: Vile? No, I'll tell you what's vile. Abandoning your best friend when she needed you the most.
Nova: When did I abandon you, Billie?
Billie: Me and Jimmy Dale.
Nova: Oh, so the rumor is true.
Billie: You are so high and mighty on TV and in your books and in your articles crusading for justice and women's rights, but you couldn't see then or now what is really happening. I was 18-years-old, Nova. He was over 33. There was no me and Jimmy Dale. There was a 30-something-year-old man going around town telling people that an 18-year-old senior in high school was good in bed and not one of you, not my best friend, or anyone in her family thought to inquire about the circumstances.
Nova: What are you saying, Billie?
Billie: I'm saying the same thing I wanted to tell you then. I tried to tell Violet and my father and everybody back then. It wasn't my choice, but nobody would listen. Nobody. So as soon as I graduated, I left, and on my way out, I stopped by the farm to speak with your father to see if he would listen. And he did. And he was so kind, Nova. I think he might have even believed me. I saw in him a good person, a father who listened and mine didn't. And that made me so, so sad and mad. And I didn't want you to have what I didn't have, so I told him you liked girls just to fight back what was happening with me. I left this town, and I never looked back.