Mike Medwicki: Maybe if you could... you could try and find your mom?
Amanda Sue Bradley: My mom? She threw me away. She threw me away.
Mike Medwicki: Well, well, well, well, well. You really did drop in from Heaven.
Amanda Sue Bradley: Well, I guess I did.
Buddy Thornton: Look, I don't want to dismiss what happened on that night in the oil fields in Horne, Oklahoma. That was tragic. But the tragedy is yours and mine as well. You see, Amanda is a child of our times. And the prosecutor was right when he said there were many child like her raoming our streets. But is she is guilty of this crime, then society is guilty as well.
Jean Glessner: We need you to get away from that strip joint - away from Billy.
Amanda Sue Bradley: Well, I'm only hanging on there until I'm old enough to get me a regular job, find me a man, and start a family of my own.
Jean Glessner: Hell, don't go talking about no kids. You are still a kid yourself.
Amanda Sue Bradley: Well you're forgetting something, honey, I was married before and you ain't.
D.A. Mark Calhoun: Lots of kids with lives like Amanda grow up to become doctors. Now she made a choice. I don't want to see anybody die.