- Jacob Snell: [walking out on their property] What is it?
- Darlene Snell: It's a badger, looks like.
- Jacob Snell: Hmm. Best leave it. His family will find it and drag it back to the den. Pups will feed on the worms and eat the corpse. That way its death has meaning. Brings nourishment to the family.
- Jacob Snell: What do you do, when the bride who took your breath away becomes the wife who makes you hold your breath in terror?
- Gene Bracken: You and your husband signed those papers without a fight.
- Wendy Byrde: You know, the kind of people who do the troubling things you think we're doing are the kind of people who will do anything to protect their children.
- Helen Pierce: It's the first law of power. Those who can, shit on others. Those who can't, clean it up.