- Bobbie Lee Hartley: It's gonna be all right. We've just been waiting so long and trying so hard. Oh, it's all right Billy Joe.
- Billy Joe McAllister: It ain't all right! I ain't all right!
- [long pause as Billy Joe walks a few steps away from Bobbie Lee]
- Billy Joe McAllister: Bobbie... I have been with a man! Did you hear me? Which is a sin against nature! A sin against God! I don't know how I could have done it, I swear! I don't know how I could be wanting you and do that.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: But you were drunk. Maybe you just imagined it.
- Billy Joe McAllister: I didn't imagine nothing!
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: But you were drunk. Everyone saw how drunk you were.
- Billy Joe McAllister: I... I knew. I knew what was happening.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: Who was it?
- Billy Joe McAllister: I ain't gonna say.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: Why? I wish I could understand.
- Billy Joe McAllister: I wish I could.
- [first lines]
- Billy Joe McAllister: HEY! I've been holding up this here bridge for over an hour so it wouldn't fall on you!
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: Right neighborly of you, Mr. McAllister.
- Dewey Barksdale: You going somewhere?
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: I'm gonna catch the 6:40 bus.
- Dewey Barksdale: So, you decided to leave, huh?
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: Appears so.
- Dewey Barksdale: To have your baby?
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: More or less.
- Dewey Barksdale: There's no baby in you, Bobbie Lee.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: Well, that makes you about the only person around here that don't think that.
- Dewey Barksdale: I heard that talk. What I can't understand is why do you want to leave? It would be much easier for you to stay here, you know and just face up to the world and show the people that there's no baby.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: They'd just figure I sneaked off during the night sometime and had an operation when nobody was lookin.
- Dewey Barksdale: I suppose so.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: I know so.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: My Papa's never gonna understand.
- Dewey Barksdale: He might.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: You're gonna kill Billy Joe all over again and yourself besides.
- Dewey Barksdale: I guess he told you.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: He did, but he didn't mention any names. It's nice that you stepped forward, but I don't see much sense in that. It's best you just let it be.
- Dewey Barksdale: I don't follow that.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: Billy Joe's on his way to becoming a legend. He made a desirable girl pregnant and then just flew away. It takes a lot to become a legend. Sometimes even takes your life. Billy Joe's already paid that price. There's no reason for him not to collect on somethin' of value for his efforts.
- Dewey Barksdale: Why should you pay too?
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: Oh, I don't mind. It's kind of dangerous. Like in those magazines. "And she went to Switzerland to have a baby... and it looked like him"
- James Hartley: That's pretty bright thinkin' of you, Bobbie Lee.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: Yeah, I'm a brain.
- James Hartley: Yeah, that you are, little one. That you are, in deed.
- [walks away]
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: I'm a body, too, James! With desires. Somebody better pay attention to that. 'Cause my blood is racin'. My ample breasts are burstin'.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: You don't seem to understand, fool. My Papa's problem is not with you; his problem is with me and the fact that I'm only...
- Billy Joe McAllister: Fifteen. Yes, I know. You're also thirty-two.
- [looks at her breasts]
- Billy Joe McAllister: And you best start usin' 'em real quickly before they go bad and fall off.
- Billy Joe McAllister: Can you please inform your Papa that I am comin' to call. I would appreciate some ice tea, as befits a gentlemen caller. With lemon and sugar - and a straw, if you got one.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: Here we are, second half of the 20th Century. The 20th Century! And Mississippi has yet to hear a word of it. Amazing. Amazing! I've come this far in life and as yet I have seen no television, ridden in no convertible car, nothin' fortifyin' has crossed my lips but a Pepsi-Cola, nothin' venturesome has crossed my mind beyond two back issues of "Torrid Romance" - which I've read to death and I know better than the "Star Spangled Banner." My entire life is dictated by the 1925 Sears Roebuck catalogue - pages 267 to 295. We got plumbin' that the cave men gave up on 22 million years ago! And an outhouse that further utilizes the Sears Roebuck catalogue - issues 1895 through 1927.
- Billy Joe McAllister: Am I supposed to understand that?
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: Oh, nobody's supposed to understand that! Einstein couldn't even understand it!
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: [kissing Billy Joe] It's trouble.
- Billy Joe McAllister: I don't care.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: I'm supposed to say no!
- Billy Joe McAllister: You can say whatever you damn please.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: Well, the girl says no for three and a half pages!
- Billy Joe McAllister: You can say no for a whole damn book.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: No, no, no. No, no, no. Well, that's one page.
- Billy Joe McAllister: That's good. Go on, use 'em all. Get 'em out of your system!
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: No. No. No. No, no, no. No.
- Billy Joe McAllister: That's another page. No?
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: Yes.
- Billy Joe McAllister: Go on, you're doin' fine.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: No, Billy Joe,
- Billy Joe McAllister: Go on: no...
- Bobbie Lee Hartley, Billy Joe McAllister: No, no, no, no.
- Billy Joe McAllister: Go on: no
- Bobbie Lee Hartley, Billy Joe McAllister: No, no, no, no.
- Billy Joe McAllister: Okay! That ought to do it.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: No!
- Billy Joe McAllister: Now, come on. Give me a big ole yes.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: No.
- Billy Joe McAllister: Come on, girl. You done give me five pages of no's - easy! Now, come on. Give me a yes.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: Oh, Billy Joe.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: [to Mama] I'd understand if you dressed me drab and covered my face and snuck me around like some frightful thing. But, when you parade me and show me off and admire me and then you tie me to a fence post? Well, that's like givin' somebody a a brand new high-powered car and sayin', "Here, it's all your's. But don't drive it."
- Billy Joe McAllister: Gal, what I'm tryin' to get across to you is that - I've been havin' some fitful dreams in which you are so warm blooded that - if we do half of what we did in my dreams, we'd be makin' love with a regularity that would close this town!
- Billy Joe McAllister: I don't want to call on you no more. I want to have you. And I think it's about time, if you don't feel the same way about me, you ought to tell me so I can get the hell out of this county.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: What are you asking me to do?
- Billy Joe McAllister: Girl, I am on to your scent! I'm down wind of you everywhere I go! I mean, you're wigglin' your own tail feathers and I'm respondin'. Now, you go Mama says, Papa says, Jesus Christ says, all you want. The fact of the matter is that if we was squirrels or cottontails out there in the forest in the middle of the night, we'd be snortin' and ruttin' in a very healthy manner! Oh, God. I would not be roamin' the woods in this predicament.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: What do you want me to do, Billy Joe? I'll do whatever you say.
- Billy Joe McAllister: I just - want you to think it over. I want you to think it over. I'll meet you on the bridge. When the day's almost gone, I'll meet you on the bridge.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: Tell me you made it up - and then we can get back to our long awaited love makin'. Where were we? As I recall, we were right here. Our bodies pressed together in passion. Our lips burning with fire. I was no longer sayin' no; because, those days are gone forever. Oh, come on, Billy Joe.
- Dewey Barksdale: I still think I'd better talk to your Papa.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: You ready to speak to Billy Joe's papa too? He's in Vicksburg, you know.
- Dewey Barksdale: Yeah, I know. I - sure was hoping to spare him that, you know.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: Well, my Papa would speak to him for you. After all, there is my good name and reputation to be considered. The best that could happen to you would be a jail term, I guess.
- Dewey Barksdale: You thought it all out, haven't you?
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: Pretty much. I can't see piling new hurts on top of an already hurtful situation. I mean, we can't have people believin' that Billy Joe McAllister jumped off the bridge because of a man, can we? This way, people will think there is a baby somewhere. Something to show for all our trouble. And maybe I'll get to believing that too.
- Dewey Barksdale: I tried to tell him that it probably would never happen again.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: I guess he didn't believe you.
- [last lines]
- Dewey Barksdale: It ain't gonna be easy for ya. You're going off alone.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: Oh, I'll be back before long. I'm only 15. What do I know of the world?
- Dewey Barksdale: If you want, I'll sure be pleased to drive you to the bus.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: Why, that'd be right neighborly of you, Mr. Barksdale, sir.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: Billy Joe, let me be! I'm 15 years of age. Now, you may think that's old. But, my Papa sees me as nothing but a child.
- Billy Joe McAllister: Well, your Papa is clearly behind the times.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: He is also on the porch.
- Billy Joe McAllister: And does your Papa know that you've been sportin' a brassiere for at least two years I known of.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: It ain't the same one. The first one was a trainer. I'm up to a 32 now. B-cup, I believe.
- Billy Joe McAllister: Well, I be-lieve you're gonna be a 96 and trippin' all over yourself before your Papa let's you out of his sight.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: If I was a 96, I'd not be out of anyone's sight!
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: That Billy Joe McAllister sure did seem like a nice person.
- James Hartley: What are you beatin' your gums about, girl?
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: That person! Billy Joe McAllister, I believe his name was. What kind of boy is he?
- James Hartley: Billy Joe? He ain't nothin' but a tadpole.
- Brother Taylor: So, we say to our young people, respect your body, for it is the temple and repository of your soul. Do not offer it freely - not even in the name of love, unless that love has been duly sanctified by the church as a direct result of a proper, Christian, marriage. And until that sacred time, do not be fooled by the languorous Lorelei that beckons you wickedly into dark corners. For, her only wish is to see you crash from those high emotions, down upon the cruel rocks of Hell. Amen.
- James Hartley: How old are you, girl?
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: Thirty-two! D cup.
- James Hartley: Well, I tell you what, in two more years when you're a thirty-four, whatever, then you can have your gentlemen callers.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: Oh, Billy Joe, will you stop you're yappin'! You know, you do an awful lot of yappin'!
- Brother Taylor: I don't know. Some of you - may know. One of you - might know. But, one thing I do know: God knows.
- James Hartley: Why didn't you just come out and say what you wanted to say?
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: Well, I'm sayin' so now!
- James Hartley: Well, you're mighty huffy about it now.
- Bobbie Lee Hartley: Yes, I'm huffy! I'm very huffy! Bobbie Lee is huffy. See how huffy Bobbie Lee is.