Olivia Benson quotes from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Fin

Just being real, lying to have sex is just part of the game. I mean, back in the day, I pretended to be Melle Mel's cousin one night. You trying to tell me that was rape?

Benson

Things have changed, Fin.

Fin

Not that much.

Benson

I'm doing the right thing.

I know. That's what worries me.

Sonny

That was rough, a husband finding out his wife's a prostitute.

Benson

Every relationship has secrets, Carisi.

Sonny

That's why I'm happy I'm single.

He lied to save your ass. In my world, that gets you disbarred.

Benson

Yeah, in my world, it gets you a promotion.

Benson

I'm sorry, Patrick. If there was something I could have done...

There was. You chose not to do it. I went to bat for you!

Benson

And the truth is, I wish you hadn't. I wish you had just told the truth.

Fin

Hype's an up-and-coming rapper, hardcore at that.

So he's lying to protect his image.

Fin

Or his career. This style of rap, it's all about reputation, it's all about street cred. For him to tell his fans he's in love with a transgender woman... they'd laugh at him. His whole brand would go up in smoke.

Benson

It's 2016, for God's sake.

Fin

Not for people selling gangsta rap.

Or for some of my relatives.

Or mine, too.

Benson

Look, I understand that this is hard, but your daughter needs to start telling the truth.

She's not going to testify. I'm not going to risk her safety over some...

Benson

Some what? Some freak?

She's just a kid. It's not her fault some man in a dress got attacked.

Benson

Her name is Eva. She's an art student who lives with her family, with her parents, Nina and Mark. The mother is a fifth grade teacher, and the father is an electrician. And if you continue to interfere with our investigation or encourage your daughter to lie, I will arrest you. Am I making myself clear?

Sonny

[about Wilson] Maybe he really did find God in the can and worked all that dark, ugly stuff out of his system.

Benson

It's possible, but prison usually changes you for the worse, not the better, unfortunately.

Sonny

Like bein' a cop.

Benson

Who are you, and what have you done with Carisi? You really feel that way?

Sonny

Talk to me in 20 years.

Benson

I will, and you'll realize that the job doesn't change you. It makes you more of who you are.

So the stalker was being stalked. Is that ironic, or just weird?

Benson

Both.

When, uh... when I was at IAB, I learned to listen. To know when people are telling me who they are, what they're really thinking. A few months ago, you said you were happy, but you were crying. You were afraid it wasn't gonna last.

Benson

I remember.

You were telling me the truth. That we weren't gonna last.

Benson

I tried, Ed and I know you tried too, but if we've both been trying this hard... I have this little boy who who needs me, who needs his mother, and I have to give him all the attention and all the time and and all the love that I have.

He has to be your priority right now. I get that. I do.

Benson

I'm sorry.

Me too. Take care of yourself, Olivia Benson.

You know, Wall Street says that Hendricks has been staying on way past his prime.

Benson

But he still has the energy for "bunga bunga" parties with Italian models.

Benson

Do you always sleep naked?

Nicole

Sometimes. Sometimes I sleep in a nightgown. Sometimes I sleep in a Rolling Stones t-shirt. Are you suggesting I had sex with that boy?

Benson

Oh, I'm not suggesting anything. I'm simply asking why you and Trey were in bed together naked.

Nicole

I'm sorry, lieutenant. I... I think it's best if you and your colleague here leave. I'm sensing some underlying hostility and it's making me very uncomfortable.

Benson

Yeah? And the naked selfies of you and Trey are making me very uncomfortable.

Nicole

Congratulations, Lieutenant. You've convinced my son I'm the devil.

Benson

No, Nicole. You did that all by yourself.

[about Luke] Poor kid doesn't know whether to hate her or love her.

Benson

It's hard to give up on your mother, no matter how sick she may be.