Eli Lapp: If you are well enough to do that, can you work for me? John Book: Yeah, how can I help? Eli Lapp: Milking, maybe. John Book: Milking. Eli Lapp: Yes, you know, cows. John Book: Yeah. I've seen pictures.
Rachel Lapp: He's leaving, isn't he? Eli Lapp: Tomorrow morning. He'll need his city clothes. Rachel Lapp: But why? What does he have to go back to? Eli Lapp: He's going back to his world, where he belongs. He knows it, and you know it, too.
Elaine: [Book has just dropped off Rachel and Samuel at Elaine's] How could you do this to me tonight? John Book: It's important! Elaine: [Elaine runs upstairs and gets Rachel and Samuel settled, then runs down to chastise John] I told you I had comp...
[Book is having trouble milking a cow] Eli Lapp: You never had your hands on a teat before. John Book: Not one this big. [Long pause; then Eli Lapp roars with laughter]
[Book moves to intervene against some locals harassing the Amish] Eli Lapp: It's not our way. John Book: It's my way.
Rachel Lapp: Are you enjoying your reading? John Book: Oh yeah. I'm learning a lot about manure. Very interesting.
[Waking up John Book] Eli Lapp: 4:30. Time for milking.
Rachel Lapp: [as she and Samuel are walking through the police station with Book] When can we leave the city? John Book: We're trying to get this done as quickly as possible, then you can go. But, Samuel's probably gonna have to come back to testify....
Rachel Lapp: I should tell you this kind of coat doesn't have buttons. See? Hooks and eyes. John Book: Something wrong with buttons? Rachel Lapp: Buttons are proud and vain, not plain. John Book: Got anything against zippers? Rachel Lapp: Are you mak...
John Book: How do I look - I mean, do I look Amish? Rachel Lapp: [nods] You look plain.
Tourist Lady: [Book is in town with Eli. Eli and the other Amish are trying to avoid the tourists with cameras] Hi! We're just here for the day, would you mind... John Book: Lady, you take my picture with that thing and I'm gonna rip your brassiere o...
Eli Lapp: What you take into your hand, you take into your heart.
Eli Lapp: You be careful out among them English.
John Book: Samuel, the man who was killed tonight was a policeman, and it's my job to find out what happened. I want you to tell me everything you saw when you went into the bathroom. Samuel Lapp: Um... there were two. John Book: There were TWO men? ...
Daniel Hochleitner: They say you are a carpenter. John Book: Yeah. Daniel Hochleitner: Well,we can always use a good one.
Townsman: [Book, dressed in Amish clothes, has just finished severely beating a local youth who was harassing Daniel Hochleitner] Never seen anything like it in all my years! Daniel Hochleitner: He's from Ohio, my cousin. Townsman: Well, them Ohio Am...
John Book: [John has returned from town, Rachel is labeling freshly canned peaches, John returns his gun and bullets] Here. Don't put 'em in the peaches.
[Book, having just dropped off Rachel and Samuel back at Lapp's farm, is driving away when he convulses and passes out from loss of blood from an untreated gunshot wound and crashes into a birdhouse. Rachel and Samuel run out to Book] Rachel Lapp: My...
