- Dr. William Raymer: You're too involved.
- Dr. McKinley Thompson: What does that mean, Doctor, "too involved"? Should I put a sticker on my brain that says, "patient is dead, case closed, finished..."?
- Dr. William Raymer: Take it easy! We all have to lose once in awhile.
- Dr. McKinley Thompson: We don't have to like it.
- Dr. McKinley Thompson: I'm sure they felt they had an impossible son they'd done everything for.
- Dr. William Raymer: And that's the tragedy. They deserted him emotionally in childhood and there's no return.
- Dr. McKinley Thompson: No. Not anymore.
- Dr. McKinley Thompson: I want to help you.
- Evelyn Denner: Help me? You couldn't help Evan, and he wanted your help.
- Dr. McKinley Thompson: She's got to accept the fact that she loved Evan, and that she's capable of feeling.
- Dr. William Raymer: And you think you can make her see that by going to her?
- Dr. McKinley Thompson: I hope so.
- Dr. William Raymer: We have a nasty phrase for what you're suggesting: therapeutic enticement.
- Dr. McKinley Thompson: Now, let's go back to this interest you had in dancing.
- Evelyn Denner: You think maybe I ought to try and revive it?
- Dr. McKinley Thompson: You want to?
- Evelyn Denner: It would be a good therapy, wouldn't it?
- Witchdoctor: I told you to stay away from that shrinker. He only understands the squares who fall off their rocker. Old Witchdoctor, he has to take care of the hip.
- Evelyn Denner: I'm a coward, Doctor. If I could kill myself I would have done it long ago.
- Dr. McKinley Thompson: You're not a coward. Suicide is neither cowardice nor courage. It's just a break with reality.
- Evelyn Denner: Well, once when I was nine I was farmed out to a family that was different.
- Dr. McKinley Thompson: In what way?
- Evelyn Denner: The wife came home one day with some old tights and leotards. Oh, just cheap ones, probably used, I guess. And she put 'em on me, and I started dancing around like some nut. Anyway, she enrolled me in a class the next week. A regular class, with a bar and all that other jazz. And I guess I was pretty good. All week long I'd look forward to the next lesson
- [trails off and retreats into her own thoughts]
- Evelyn Denner: .
- Dr. McKinley Thompson: Evelyn, you were saying that all week long you looked forward to the next lesson?
- Evelyn Denner: Yeah, uh, well, her husband got a better job in another state and I was sent someplace else.