- Jacob Dutton: Now close your eyes and imagine those places if the cities weren't there. Come on, do it. White sands stretching to a forest of hickory and elm... taller than the buildings that stand there now. Meadows filled with bison and moose and bear, and millions of salmon swimming up the east river to spawn, so thick, you could walk across them. Now think about what's there now: a thirteen-mile island of cement with rivers of sewage running underneath it until they dump into the bay where salmon don't dare to swim. That's what they'll do to this place: dam the rivers... flood the valleys... cut every tree that stands to build cities. This paradise becomes another concrete desert. I'm not going to kill him for what they done to me, or what they done to John, or what they're still doing to you. I'm going to kill them... because the men who build cities always send men like Banner first. I do it for the child of a child I will never meet. I do it for the land. I do it for you. So that when you're laid to rest under the aspens... no one cuts them down and builds a city over you. I know how much you've suffered. And I thank you for it. It's their turn now. God damn it, it's their turn now.
- Cara Dutton: Jacob. Jacob. Jacob. How dare you give your back to me? After all I've given to you. It's not even justice. It's more petty than that. It's vengeance you seek. Never mind he'll be arrested in the morning. You'd rather put the bullet in him yourself. Then it's you in prison and the ranch is lost all the same. You think it's you who's suffered the most? How would you know, you were asleep half the time. While I bathed you and spoon fed you like an infant, I wiped your ass like an infant. While I shoveled graves between unanswered prayers. You don't know what it is to suffer. Emma did. She suffered her way into the hole I dug her. Elizabeth knows it. Father in the ground, family gone, stuck in this house like a dungeon. Can you fathom the strength it took for that girl to smile again? If there is a line forming for vengeance, you are at the back of it. But we've abandoned any desire of vengeance. Even Jack, for you. I wonder if your pride can withstand the sacrifice of showing us the same courtesy.
- Spencer Dutton: I'll tell you one. I'll tell you a dream. In my heart, I know it was wrong to take you. And everything that happened up to now was a sign. A warning. The elephant, the lions, the shipwreck. It was all the universe telling me to put you back. I'm just too fucking selfish to do it. So, my dream is. My dream is that the universe is wrong. And you're mine to keep.
- Spencer Dutton: The universe has absolutely no say, whatsoever. I am following you wherever you go. Whether you like it or not. Choose another dream. This one's already come true.
- Spencer Dutton: It's far from coming true.
- Alexandra: There is no putting me back. We are one now. When the sun hits your face, I am your shadow. When it finds my back, you are mine. I go where you go. Even if it's the death of me.
- Hank: I don't think we should burn these. I was in one of their prisons. They would read a verse to us everyday. Until they had read us the whole book. I was in that prison a while. Long enough to hear the book twice. When their God is angry, he turns cities to salt, burns them, floods valleys. I'm afraid if we burn his books, he might turn us to salt.