- Vivian: I thought you'd never get here.
- Sara: I had to fly into Greensboro, its a two hour drive.
- Vivian: I wish you'd come over the summer when I invited you. But I guess you won.
- Sara: Won?
- Vivian: Whatever cruel game you had going with your father. Now you don't have to see him after all.
- Lily: Mom! She didn't mean that...
- Mark Futterman: Know anything about a sea monster lives out in the lake? You ever hear anything about that?
- Miranda: Been a rumor 'bout a 600-pound catfish out by the dam.
- Mark Futterman: Well, that's a lot of Long John Silver's isn't it?
- Vivian: Now I chose this life. I chose family and community and simplicity and nature, over wealth and power and position and fame. Now I respect your choices; and I know folks in your neck of the woods don't respect mine; but I expect you to know better.
- Ash Henson: Can you tell me how to get to Scruggs Road?
- Old Vic: Be easier to take you there than to tell you. You got a boat?
- Ash Henson: Do I look like I have a boat?
- Old Vic: No, son. You look like you have an attitude problem.