- Johnny Deacon: This morning a buffalo looked me straight in the eyes - was he challenging my right to be there, or just trying to work out what I was?
- Mrs. Blessington: Why are you going where you're going? Why did you come out to Africa in the first place? To face up to some sort of reality? Did you face up to your own emptiness instead? This land attracts your sort. It's no good trying to be strong. Only the weak survive.
- Reverend Merrilees: If it's God you're after, find him in your own soul, where the Bible says to look. Don't come sniffing round the church. Now if you'll excuse me, the vestry door wants re-hingeing.