- Laura Ingalls: Ma, how long is all this learning going to take?
- Caroline Ingalls: We start learning the minute we're born, Laura. And if we're wise, we don't stop until the Lord calls us home.
- Laura Ingalls: THAT long?
- Mary Ingalls: That Nellie Olsen's the meanest girl I ever did see. I could never be that mean!
- Laura Ingalls: I could... meaner! If Ma and Pa'd let me!
- Mary Ingalls Kendall: That Nellie Oleson is the meanest girl I ever did see! I could never be as mean as that!
- Laura: I could - meaner!
- [pause]
- Laura: If Ma and Pa would let me!
- Laura Ingalls: If I had a remembrance book, there's one thing I'd want to put in it about school. Ma and Pa were right. It is fun, especially when all the different letters started turning into words. But learning to write was one of the hardest things I ever hoped to do.
- Harriet Oleson: I expect you're here to apologize for what happened yesterday at school.
- Caroline Ingalls: I'm here to sell eggs, Mrs. Olsen.
- Harriet Oleson: Hm... Well, I might have expected as much. Let me tell you something, Mrs. Ingalls. Your daughter Laura is a trouble maker and you best take her in hand! Starting fights in the school yard and pushing other children around!
- Caroline Ingalls: Nellie apparently has her own version of the truth. If you will question some of the other children...
- Harriet Oleson: Brown eggs are still four cents less. You didn't bring any brown eggs!
- Caroline Ingalls: Oh, my husband sold them to a man at Hansen's mill for three cents more than you paid me.
- Harriet Oleson: That's gratitude...
- Caroline Ingalls: No, that's good business.
- Harriet Oleson: Maybe they'll buy your white eggs as well.
- Caroline Ingalls: As a matter of fact, my husband said he'd be glad to do so.
- Carrie Ingalls: I want a new dress for my dolly.
- Charles Philip Ingalls: [laughs] You'll get one, sweetheart.