- Ben Madigan: [Referring to Jude] I saw her Kes... She was at school. She didn't think I knew her. But I did.
- Michael Madigan: Whatch ya guys doin'?
- Kes Madigan: Ben says he saw Jude at school.
- Michael Madigan: He's full of it. He was too little to remember her.
- Ben Madigan: I was not. Callie saw her too. She asked me if I knew her. I said no.
- Michael Madigan: Why'd ya say no if you did?
- [Ben shrugs his shoulders]
- Ben Madigan: Kes can I get in your bed?
- Kes Madigan: Yeah, come on.
- [Moves aside as his brother clambers into bed]
- Ben Madigan: I was thinkin' about us talkin' to this judge, Kes.
- Kes Madigan: He just wants us to ask a bunch of stupid questions.
- Ben Madigan: About mom?
- Kes Madigan: She didn't like to be called Mom. Call her Jude.
- Ben Madigan: What if I don't remember stuff?
- Kes Madigan: Well, that's okay. It's not a test.
- Jude: So? What're we gonna do?
- Kes Madigan: About what?
- Jude: About Callie.
- Kes Madigan: Callie?
- Jude: I want to come home Kes and she won't let me. I-it's as if she's got your dad under some kind of spell or something.
- Jude: [First Lines] He's not gonna get away with this.
- Lansing: You understand, you set this in motion the day you left.
- Jude: I never said I wanted a divorce, just some time away. I was suffocating.
- Lansing: That was several years ago. You haven't been back since.
- Jude: They're my boys. How can he think I'm gonna give them up? Robert wouldn't divorce me. I know him. There must be someone else. I'm not gonna let it happen. I'm going home.
- Jude: Wouldn't you rather have a real mother than... a substitute teacher?
- Kes Madigan: She's not a substitute teacher. She's an assistant principal.
- Jude: Oh. Kes. Children belong with their mothers.
- Mr. Fogel: Ah, Kes? Listen pal, you got yourself a championship frog there. What d'ya say we give it a go?
- Cynthia: Come one.
- Mr. Fogel: I mean. The frog's dead. Extremely dead. I personally guarantee you.
- Cynthia: Come on, just get it over with.
- Mr. Fogel: What d'ya say pal?
- [Kes violently stabs the frog and it explodes]
- Kes Madigan: Are you going to her house tonight?
- Robert: I was planning to.
- Kes Madigan: Why can't you just do it here? Wait 'til we're asleep or something.
- Robert: Jesus, Kes.
- Kes Madigan: It's not like we don't know.
- Jude: What'd you think of the movie?
- Kes Madigan: It was okay.
- Jude: I thought it was funny.
- Kes Madigan: I thought it was kinda sad.
- Jude: Sometimes sad is funny.
- Jude: Mother, I know that you love Robert and the boys very much. And that you want what's best for them. But so do I.
- Lydia: You left those boys. You've been gone for three years.
- Jude: I know... it took me a long time... to get back here to understand. To forgive myself.
- Lydia: Jude, do you realize Kes nearly lost his mind when you left?
- Jude: I want my family back.
- Callie: [Callie wakes up tied to a chair] Kes? Kes! What are you doing?
- Kes Madigan: You've been found guilty of breaking up this family. Of making our dad not want to be with Jude and trying to take her place. We sentence you to be banished from this house.
- [Smacks the meat cleaver on the ground with a loud bang]
- Callie: Ben, Michael, do you feel the same?
- [Ben is about to talk]
- Kes Madigan: Shhhh
- Callie: All right, let me go Kes! I want to leave now!
- Ben Madigan: I'm sorry Callie.
- Robert: What's going on here?
- Ben Madigan: They said you lied about mom.
- Robert: I did. But I... I was trying to protect you.
- Michael Madigan: By lying?
- Jude: Kes are you trying to punish me... by starving yourself?
- Kes Madigan: I'm not going to starve if I don't eat one dumb sandwich.
- Jude: You don't have to talk to me that way. I just asked. Kes I want us to be together.
- Kes Madigan: You're too late Jude. Dad's marrying someone else.
- Jude: [Jude has an alcohol glass in hand, only wearing a rope] Oh Robert.
- Robert: Stay away from Callie.
- Jude: Robert, I'm completely uninterested in what happens with your little whore. All I ever wanted was for us to be happy. To get my family back.
- Robert: You can't have this family back. You broke it, it doesn't go back. You left us.
- Jude: I had to.
- Robert: You-You had to? You... how did you "have to"? Leave Callie and us alone. Leave us alone.
- Jude: No! I will not leave you alone Robert! Because in the courts eyes, I'm still their fucking mama! So unless you truly relish every penny you've ever earned in your fucking life ending up in your lawyers pocket, you really ought to think about being nicer.
- Robert: In the courts eyes, you think what you did to those kids makes you a fit mother? Look at you. Is this how you are when the boys are over here?
- Jude: No. I'm like this.
- [Drops her robe and stands there naked]
- Mark Kaplan: The bottom line is, she's still their mother, Robert. So unless she's smoking crack and dealing drugs and even then, the law is on her side. She's their mother.
- Robert: So there's nothing you can do?
- Mark Kaplan: Well we could request everyone go through a complete psychiatric evaluation. If she fails your in great shape.
- Robert: Is she passes?
- Mark Kaplan: You could lose the boys.
- Robert: So I have to let her see them?
- Mark Kaplan: Ya. I mean, unless...
- Robert: I kill her.
- Mark Kaplan: I can't advise you about that. Just don't get caught.