Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Listen, Jerry, I'm the one in a trap. You move in with me, I'll... I'll nudja you into marrying me, I know I will. And then what'll I have? I don't wanna have to spend the rest of my life begging. It's not good enough for me, Jerry. Not any more. I want somebody who'll feel about me... what you said about her before. What do you say we give each other the gate, huh?
Jerry Ryan: For my sake? So I can go back?
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: No. Whether you go or stay. To tell you the God's honest truth, Jerry, I didn't take one free breath since that hemorrhage. I wanna get outta here so I can breathe.

Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Pick up the phone if you're so strong.
Jerry Ryan: Do you want me to?
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Sure I want you to. I don't know where I stand. I could scream my head off and nobody comes. Who can I count on besides me?
Jerry Ryan: Me!
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Yeah. Lean on you and I'll fall in that big hole, someplace in Nevada!

Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: So then you say, "need you". I need you. Who says these things in black and white? You care about somebody, you don't make 'em ask. Like a bill that's gotta be paid. What kind of giving is that? So when you ask me to hand myself over on a platter... Well, what do you hand over, Jerry? What'll I get? Jake, I pay a penny, I get a penny candy. But you... You're a big 10-buck box and all I'll get is the cellophane. You short-change people. You make it look like you're giving but you don't.

Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Things aren't even-Steven with us, Jerry. You do all the giving. What I have to give, you don't want. And what I want, you can't give. Doesn't matter if I learn shorthand or to play a bugle standing on my head. If you don't love me, you don't love me. And time isn't gonna make one lousy bit of difference.

Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Things look a lot different to me now. You did me a worid of good, Jerry.
Jerry Ryan: Did I, Gittel? Really? Because if I could think that...
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: You helped me. This is the first time I come out with more than I went in. Whoever this guy is, he'll owe you.
Jerry Ryan: Thank you. She'll owe you, too. More than she'll ever know.

Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: What have you been doing in New York?
Jerry Ryan: Mostly walking, by day and by night.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Monotonous but healthy.

Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Why so sore? 'Cause I feel sorry for ya?
Jerry Ryan: I don't think I can afford you. I'm not ready for a whole human, complete with weaknesses...
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Who asked ya? Who made an offer?
Jerry Ryan: I did, but I take it back. I'm neither ready nor able to be responsible for anything these days. Least of all an ingenuous nitwit. That's why I'm sore. Disappointment.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: What does ingenuous mean? Smart?
Jerry Ryan: Dumb. Naive.