Cora: I had two orgasms.
Phoebe [squeals]: Tell me everything.

Cora: Please don't give up on me.
Ambrose: I won't.

You screwed me in the photo lab and then you wouldn't look at me in public. So no, that wasn't fun.

Cop

Margaret: It was easier when she lived with me.
Ambrose: When was that?
Margaret: When she came back.
Ambrose: From?
Margaret: She disappeared in July of 2012. But she turned up two months later at a detox center in Poughkeepsie.

Ambrose: So you believed what your mother told you, that you sold yourself for drugs, you had the scars, you went through something terrible and then you blamed yourself. You spent a lot of years blaming yourself, haven't you? And that story that you believed, was not true. None of that that you thought you went through, was true.
Cora: Then what happened to me?

Phoebe: I saw dad naked once in the bathroom but I didn't see his thing. I bet you did. Is it big?
Cora: It's a sin to talk that way.
Phoebe: God doesn't mind if you're sick.

Doctor: And what would you say to your 13-year-old self now if you had the chance?
Cora: Run.

What kind of a god kills your baby but lets you survive?

Cora

Look at her. Do you know why she's not better? Because you're not doing your part.

Mother

I met Frankie on July 3rd. It was five years ago.

Cora

Det. Ambrose: I think you would agree that people don't usually stab other people because they're playing their music too loud.
Cora: I realize that.
Det. Ambrose: And you can tell us anything. Whatever you can.
Cora: I don't know. I just...I just did it. And I don't know why.

You think he knew her? And then he let her...kill him.

Ambrose

The Sinner Quotes

Cora: No. I've never met him before.
Det. Leroy: Then why kill him?
Cora [sneers]: Because they were playing that music and they were turnin' it up.

Ron: You should go to the station.
Lorna: You need to eat something.