- Esco Brown: Go carefully, with peace in your heart, with love in your eyes, and with laughter on your tongue. And if life don't hand you nothing but lemons, you just make you some lemonade. That's from Book Brown, Chapter One, Verse One.
- Edna Mae McCauley: I love you, Gramma.
- Grandma Pearl: Yes... That's it, ain't it? If we could just love each other, as much as we say we love Him, I 'spect there wouldn't be the bother in the world there is.
- Edna Mae McCauley: I 'spect.
- Edna Mae McCauley: [Turning down an offer to have her healing ability tested] What's going on here has to do with people and feelings, not with wires and machines. I don't know; it just doesn't feel right to me.
- Edna Mae McCauley: [Edna has a falling-out with her widowed father, John, who considers her "trash"; he demands that she get out of his house and stay out] Sure I'll go, because I never want to see you again either. You're an icy and opinionated bully, without an ounce of compassion or understanding anywhere; I'm sick to death of trying to get you to love me.