- Julie Ingram: There's a struggle. How do you live if you're ruled by your past? But, how do you let go of a past that made you?
- [first lines]
- Katie Garvey: Daddy, what's the greatest thing you ever saw?
- Ben Garvey: Greatest thing you ever saw. Umm. One time when I was a little boy, I was playing with my slingshot and I saw this Jaybird. I don't know why but I shot him.
- Katie Garvey: You killed a birdie?
- Ben Garvey: I didn't mean to. I don't even know why I shot at him, but I felt so bad, I started praying to God that he would come back. And all of a sudden the Jaybird woke up. He just flew away.
- Katie Garvey: God saved him?
- Ben Garvey: Yeah, I think so.
- [last lines]
- Katie Garvey: Mommy, what's the greatest thing you ever saw?
- Lisa Garvey: I don't think I've seen it yet, baby.
- Ben Garvey: I did something real bad. Something that I didn't mean to do.
- Katie Garvey: Like the Jaybird?
- William Reeds: There are no accidents. There are only things we do and what those things do to other people.