Alice: Do you know what it’s like to try so hard and still feel like you’re failing?
Jack: Kinda, yeah.

Alice: Are you even listening?
Nick: I just got a break in the case. I’ve got to go.
Alice: Of course you do. Well, thanks for punching in.
Nick: I’m doing my best. You know that right, or were you just playing the role of understanding wife in front of the shrink?

Whatever you do on your own time isn’t my business, but tomorrow and any time you’re around Flynn you better be sober.

Alice

Drug dealer: That shit’s everywhere. You can buy it online. There ain’t no such thing as pure Fentanyl on the street.
Emily: You sure about that?

Emily: Can you get them to run a tox screen, please?
Tommy: That may take a while. She’s not exactly a priority.
Emily: Tom, she told me someone was after her. Someone killed her, I can feel it. Can you make it a fucking priority?
Tommy: Okay.

Emily: Why didn’t you tell me about her?
Warren: I thought she was long gone.
Emily: You said she was dead.
Warren: For all intents and purposes, she was.
Emily: How much did you guys know about her?
Warren: Enough to know she should be kept away.

Flynn: So, she’s my grandmother.
Emily: No, your grandmother is Helen Byrne, the woman who made your baby blanket for you.
Flynn: But she’s your mom.
Emily: Yeah. I just met her too.

I am not letting my problems endanger my kid. Not again.

Emily

Alice: It’s kind of wrong, isn’t it?
Jack: What?
Alice: One hundred and twenty-one people died and you and I have a new lease on life.

My story was all over the news, I bet it was exciting. Somewhere along the lines our stories blurred and fiction becomes fact.

Emily

Julianne: We can’t rule things out until we’re certain.
Crown: Then get certain.

Emily: My birth mother is dead.
Valerie: I may not be the freshest daisy in the garden but hey, you know, I’m still breathing.

Absentia Quotes

If you don't believe me, Nick, why are you even asking me the question?

Emily

Alice: I know she would have loved to be at your race, every race, but she wanted to make your life safer, and mine. We kind of owe her, don't you think?
Flynn: You're my Mom.