Blanche: What goes around, comes around.
Virginia: Well, then, I must have been really bad.
Blanche: What do you mean?
Virginia: Well, it's the reason I'm here.
Blanche: I knew it. I knew you had a reason. Better be a good one.
Virginia: I'm dying.
Blanche: What?
Virginia: I'm dying.
Blanche: Well my God. That explains it, then.
Virginia: What?
Blanche: Why you're looking so much older than I am.

Rose: What happens if she doesn't get your kidney?
Blanche: She'll die.
Rose: You hold her life in your hands? What are you gonna do?
Blanche: I don't know.
Sophia: I'm glad you're not my sister.

Virginia: Blanche, I know you need some time to think it over.
Blanche: You're damn right I do. We're talking about a vital organ in my body here.
Virginia: I know.
Sophia: You gonna give it to her or not?
Virginia: Sophia.
Sophia: What does it mean, a little less bourbon?
Virginia: It's a big decision, Sophia. She's got to think about it.
Sophia: She's family. If you can't count on family, who the hell can you count on?
Blanche: [to Virginia] She's Italian.

Virginia: Look, if you decide not to, I'll understand. I swear.
Blanche: Sure, you'll be dead. And everybody will say Blanche killed her.
Virginia: What I'm trying to say is it's a terrible choice I've given you. I don't even know what I would do under the same circumstances.
Blanche: Are you saying you don't know if you'd give me a kidney?
Virginia: No, I don't.
Blanche: Well, I'm not surprised. You never even lent me a Kleenex. Besides, I'm a size eight, your kidney wouldn't fit me. There's not room in my body for your kidney.

Rose: The doctor says it's the first time he'd ever been called because a baby was sleeping in the day. And then I think he called me an idiot.

Dorothy: He sleeps in the day because he has four women who won't let him sleep at night. Now, who went in there last night? Was it you?
Rose: Well, I went in once.
Dorothy: Why?
Rose: I was working. I hadn't seen him all day.
Dorothy: And was he sleeping?
Rose: At first.

Blanche: I don't want my sister to die. I want her to live. And not just for her, for me. I wanna get to know her like a grownup. Well, I want us to have a chance to be friends, sisters. After all, she's the only family I have.
Rose: I thought you had a sister, Charmaine.
Blanche: Oh, you can't count her! Why, she's an awful, selfish, neurotic woman who made me and Virginia miserable our entire lives.

Blanche: But the most wonderful thing about all this is Virginia and me. All that time we wasted hating each other from when we were kids. Now we're getting to know each other, and I just love her. I finally have a sister to love. Isn't it funny? Sometimes you have to almost lose somebody before you realize how much they really mean to you.

Blanche: Let's go out and celebrate life. Let's go out and do something crazy!
Sophia: Let's fly to Freeport and gamble all night.
Dorothy: Ma, we can't afford it.
Rose: Let's drive to Disney World and ride the Teacups!
Dorothy: Oh, too wild, Rose.
Blanche: Hey, I know a bar over in Coco Beach where you can pick up over-the-hill astronauts. [Dorothy pinches Blance's arm] Ow!
Rose: Or there's some Rocky Road in the freezer.
Blanche: Hey, great!