- Jacob Dutton: When it comes to firstborn children, you shouldn't be too particular about your math and the calendar.
- Cara Dutton: The weddings' for woman, if it were for men we would've spat on our hands then shook on it and then you would've bent me over the first thing you could find that would hold our weight.
- Jacob Dutton: That's not far from how it happened, honey
- Cara Dutton: Can we speak, Elizabeth?
- Elizabeth Strafford: Yes.
- Cara Dutton: You know, I admire you. And the opportunities you've had. I regret not sending Jack back east for school. I feel sometimes that we've robbed him of countless experiences, all of which you've had. But what you haven't had, however, is an education about this way of life. You will miss more than weddings for cattle, my dear. If you give birth during calving season it will be a month before he sees his first child. If you give birth in the fall it will be even longer. You will stand knee deep in mud to help a sick foal. You will drive wagons through blizzards with hay for cattle and hear them screaming their gratitude when you approach. And you will be free in a way that most people can barely conceive. Now, if this is not the life you want, you must tell the boy now. Because you have to want more than the boy, you have to want the life, too. Because in this life, there's no debating which is more important: the wedding or the cattle. It's always the cattle.
- Elsa Dutton: Violence has always haunted this family. It followed us from the Scottish Highlands and the slums of Dublin. It ravaged us upon the coffin ships of Ireland. Stranded us on the beaches of New Jersey ,devoured us upon the battlefields of Shiloh and Antietam. And it followed us here.. lurking beneath the pines and in the rivers..And where it doesn't follow, we hunt it down. We seek it
- Father Renaud: Would you place your hands on the desk, please? Would you recite 1 Corinthians Chapter 13, verse one, please.
- Sister Mary: "If I speak in the tongues of men... And Angels... But have not love... I am a noisy gong or a cymbal... Clanging cymbal... and if I have prophetic powers, and understand all knowledge... And if I have all faith... So as to remove mountains... But have not love..."
- Sister Mary: Remove your towels, fold them, and place them beside your bath. Enter the bath. Grab the soap and rub the soap into your washcloth. Begin with your neck. Rub under each arm. Down your bellies. Then your privates... And last your feet. Scrub until I say finish. Finish... Place your washcloth on the side of the wash bin. Retrieve your towel. Stand and wrap the towel under your arms and around your bellies. Step from the tub. Dry your shoulders and back, then your legs. Prepare yourselves for inspection. Thank you.Open your towel.Turn 'round. Remove your towel. Cover yourself. Turn 'round. We understand each other now, I think. Yes?
- Teonna Rainwater: Yes, sister.
- Sister Mary: Best for both of us stay clear of his office, then.
- Teonna Rainwater: Yes, sister.
- Sister Mary: Once you're dressed, mop this up.
- Sheep Herder (Fence Cut): What's a fence doing way up here?
- Banner Creighton: I don't know.
- Sheep Herder (Fence Cut): Shouldn't be here.
- Banner Creighton: Well, it's here. That fucking Dutton. Fencing the world out of grass he can't even reach. I'm not watching my sheep die while there's grass a foot tall no cattle could ever graze. Cut it.
- Sister Mary: Name the ingredients of soap. Name them.
- Teonna Rainwater: Oil, lye, and water.
- Sister Mary: What kind of oil?
- Teonna Rainwater: Any kind.
- Sister Mary: I prefer your answers without the flippancy. Now, what kind of oil?
- Teonna Rainwater: You can use vegetable oil, or tallow.
- Sister Mary: How do you get tallow?
- Teonna Rainwater: You render animal fat.
- Sister Mary: How do you render it?
- Teonna Rainwater: You boil it.
- Sister Mary: What is lye?
- Teonna Rainwater: It's... It's from ashes.
- Sister Mary: What is from ashes?
- Teonna Rainwater: The Alkaline?
- Sister Mary: Alkali. How do you get alkali?
- [ruler slap]
- Sister Mary: How?
- Teonna Rainwater: I don't know.
- Sister Mary: [slap] Why don't you know? It was in yesterday's lecture.
- Teonna Rainwater: I can't rememb...
- Sister Mary: Yes, you do.
- Teonna Rainwater: I don't. I don't! Ow.
- [speaks Native language]
- Sister Mary: You will not speak that godless filth in my...
- Cara Dutton: [narrating] Violence has always haunted this family. It followed us from the Scottish Highlands and the slums of Dublin. It ravaged us upon the coffin ships of Ireland, stranded us on the beaches of New Jersey, devoured us upon the battlefields of Shiloh and Antietam. And it followed us here, lurking beneath the pines and in the rivers.
- Cara Dutton: And where it doesn't follow, we hunt it down. We seek it.