Lewis: Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.
Doctor: Explain this to me again. I didn't know somebody could shoot themself with their own arrow.
Lewis: Do know what's gonna be here? Right here? A lake. As far as the eyes can see. Hundreds of feet deep. HUNDREDS of feet deep. Did you ever look out over a lake and think of somethin' buried underneath it? Buried underneath it. Well man, that's j...
Mountain Man: What do you want to do now? Toothless Man: [grinning] He got a real pretty mouth ain't he? Mountain Man: That's the truth Toothless Man: [to Ed] You gonna do some prayin' for me, boy. And you better pray good.
Ed: Look, what is it that you require of us? Mountain Man: What we, uh, "re-quire" is that you get your god-damn asses up in them woods.
Bobby: I had my first wet dream in a sleepin' bag. Ed: How was it? Bobby: Great. [pause] Bobby: There's no repeatin' it.
Sherrif Bullard: Don't ever do nothin' like this again. Don't come back up here. Bobby: You don't have to worry about that, Sheriff.
Mountain Man: I bet you can squeal like a pig. Weeeeeeee! Bobby: Weee! Mountain Man: Weeeeeeee! Bobby: Weee!
[Lewis and Ed take a wrong turn looking for the river] First Griner: Where you goin' city boy? Lewis: We'll find it. We'll find it. Second Griner: It ain't nothin' but the biggest fuckin' river in the state.
Lewis: Now you listen, Ed. Damn it, we can get out of this thing, without any questions asked. We get connected up with that body, and the law, this thing's gonna be hangin' over us the rest of our lives. We've gotta get rid of that guy. Drew: Just h...
Lewis: Why do you go on these trips with me, Ed? Ed: [somewhat defensively] I like my life, Lewis. Lewis: Yeah, but why do you go on these trips with me? Ed: You know, sometimes I wonder about that. Ed: [Lewis accurately shoots a fish in the river wi...
Taxi Driver: Right there's the town hall. Right over there's the old fire station. Played a lot of checkers over there, sure did. All this land's gonna be covered with water - best thing ever happened to this town. [a truck in front of the cab is car...
Ed: Night has fallen. And there's nothin' we can do about it.
[preparing to bury Drew in the river] Ed: Drew was a... a good husband to his wife Linda, and... you were a wonderful father to your boys, Drew... Jimmy and Billy Ray. And if we come through this, I promise to do all I can for 'em. [pause] Ed: He was...
[Ed just killed a man believed to be the second rapist] Bobby: That's him? I mean... he wasn't just some guy out hunting, was it? Ed: [shouts] You tell me!
[last lines] Ed: [waking from a nightmare] No! Martha: Ed? What's the matter?... It's all right... it's all right... shhh... go to sleep... go to sleep...
Sherrif Bullard: [Ominously to Ed] Let's just wait and see what comes out of the river.
Bobby: [about Drew] I really didn't know him.
