- Dr. Powell: [after the autopsy on Horace Delaney's corpse] You want him reburied?
- James Keziah Delaney: Yes, and sown back up into one piece.
- Dr. Powell: I would recommend they dig a bit deeper this time.
- James Keziah Delaney: [Grabbing Dr. Powell by the jaw] If this body is used for any other purpose, I will find you and I will kill you! You tell every member of your profession. I know things about the dead and I will know.
- Dr. Powell: Do you want any words said over him when we put him back?
- James Keziah Delaney: Noone is listening.
- Helga: I have girls, but I also have men. They're not very good men. You understand?
- James Keziah Delaney: Mm-hmm.
- Helga: They have rocks for hearts. They have knives and ropes. If you have any sense...
- James Keziah Delaney: People who do not know me soon come to understand that I do not have any sense. Now, please do not misunderstand the situation... You send me 12 men, I will return you 12 sets of testicles in a bag, and we can watch your little whores devour them together, before I chop off your trotters and boil them.
- Brace: [about his father] He was half human at the end and he would squat right here and make deals with ghosts in the flames... And he would speak in a language that was like... It was like ravens fighting... And he would talk to you, James... And he would talk to Anna.
- James Keziah Delaney: Tom McPherson is not only a tainted man, but an awful retribution paladin.
- James Keziah Delaney: Yes, he is also a negro.
- Robert Thoyt: Mrs. Geary, I do not wish to be indelicate, but did you pay the grave-diggers the extra shilling?
- Zilpha Geary: What extra shilling?
- Robert Thoyt: To bury your father deeper in the ground... Resurrectionists pay extra to be buried two feet deeper than the rest. That way, the grave-robbers can't dig down to their meat before the sun comes up.
- Thorne Geary: My wife has no business with the grave-diggers... Her father will rest at the regular depth.
- James Keziah Delaney: Such a shallow grave they dug for my father. Are you short of a couple of shillings?
- Zilpha Geary: He was buried to the depth of my love.
- James Keziah Delaney: One remembers those one looks up to more readily than those you look down upon.