- Malorie: Listen to me, we're going on a trip now, it's going to be rough. If you hear something in the woods, you tell me. if you hear something in the water, you tell me. But under no circumstances are you allowed to take off your blindfold.
- Tom: Surviving is not living. Life is more than just what is. It's what could be. What you could make it. You need to promise them dreams that may never come true. You need to love them knowing that you may lose them at any second. Okay? They deserve dreams. They deserve love. They deserve hope. They deserve a mother.
- Malorie: [Malorie speaking to Boy and Girl] Boy, you have your dog. Girl, you have your kitty. This is just a place. There's nothing more that we need from it. Do you understand? And no talking on the river. You must listen as closely as you can. If you hear something in the woods, you tell me. If you hear something in the water, you tell me. But you never, ever take off your blindfold. If you look, you will die. Do you understand?
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- Man: [over the radio] We have a place, a compound. We have a community. It's safe here. How many of you are there? Are any of them children? Because, the fastest way to get here is by the river, and I don't think you could make it with kids.
- Douglas: Because, in the end, there are only two types of people. The assholes and the dead.
- Malorie: God, you sound like my father.
- Douglas: Like your father? Why? Was he a towering intellect given to dispensing wisdom to undeserving fools?
- Malorie: Yes, he was fluent in asshole as well. And just like you, he blamed everything he did on some deeper meaning, convoluted conspiracy theories and how it was everybody else's fault when he was clearly in the wrong. But, you know, once my sister and I realized it was just an excuse to treat his family like shit, it made life a little easier.