Jenna: I feel bad. I was the one who pushed Zoe to get back on the market. My marriage is pretty boring. I wanted to live vicariously through her.
Benson: Life is a strange mix of beauty and pain and we can't control how it unfolds for the people we love.

Muncy: Captain, I noticed that Velasco's motorcycle isn't parked outside for the third day in a row.
Benson: Great work, detective, but I told you that Velasco is taking a few days off.

Boy: Why did you let me win?
Girl: I've never heard you speak before.
Boy: It's better that way. You heard them laughing.
Girl: I read your story. The one on the wall. About the boy who lived on the moon so he didn't have to talk to anyone.
Boy: It's better that way. Trust me.

I'd rather die in prison. The second the cell doors close, I won't remember why I was there. That boy will remember everything. Some memories are worse than prison.

Pence

Fin: All this says to me is Velasco did his research on this case for his lie.
Benson: That's a lot of homework for a mid-level banger.

Cop: Hey, sir! I asked you a question. What do you remember?
Pence: I did it. I made love to her and then I killed her. I remember it all.

I don't want to be here anymore. I want to be with Winnie. Please let me go.

Pence

Benson: I feel bad for you, Velasco.
Velasco: Bad for me? Why?
Benson: You are 180 pounds of water in the body of a man. Whatever anyone wants you to be, you become.

Velasco: You recorded me? Why aren't you arresting her?
Churlish: For what?
Velasco: It's a felony in New York to record someone without their permission.
Fin: Good thing we're not in a courtroom, then.

Fin: You talked to McGrath?
Benson: Not yet.
Fin: Okay, this is where I remind you: you're the captain. As your Number 2, the greatest gift I can give you is plausible deniability.

Fin: We all make mistakes, and even in the NYPD there is room for redemption.
Velasco: You think Benson sees it that way?
Fin: You didn't ask for my advice, but I'm gonna give it anyway. Show your loyalty to her, not to me, not to the NYPD, and certainly not to a man who's responsible for an unsolved murder.

Carisi: You never interviewed the delivery guy?
Detective: We had a confession.

Law & Order: SVU Quotes

Benson: Thank you for coming forward.
Woman: What this company is doing, the way it treats women pilots, is despicable. But what you're doing... it's about damn time.

We have two options. One is bad. The other is worse. Either we missed one or... Yeats has a copycat.

Benson