- Thomas 'Doc' Durant: [after being stitched up] There are some men who need killing. You and I both know that, Bohannan.
- Cullen Bohannan: Eh, I've drunk from that cup. It don't quench.
- [first lines]
- Psalms: [at his door] You need to get on from this place.
- Cullen Bohannan: Good morning to you, too.
- Psalms: I been prayin' the blood of Jesus on you, missus, and the baby. But I ain't strong enough for what's comin' next.
- Cullen Bohannan: You look like you seen a ghost.
- Elam Ferguson: [encountering Ezra at the stream] Frog legs jump out of the skillet when you fry 'em up, don't they, boy?
- Elam Ferguson: Who do you belong to?
- Eva: We used to belong to each other.
- Elam Ferguson: Can't no slave own no slave.