Katherine Heigl credited as playing...
Marty Claridge
- Marty Claridge: I have to stay for the right reasons
- Clark Davis: Stay because I love you. I love you!
- Marty Claridge: Maybe I should stay because I love *you*.
- Marty Claridge: The books. How did you know they were mine and not Aaron's?
- Clark Davis: Oh, well, a man would have thrown them off the wagon at the first big hill. Unless he was trying to please a stubborn woman.
- Marty Claridge: My husband Aaron loved me so much that it spilled over and made a baby.
- Missie Davis: What spilled over?
- Marty Claridge: It.
- Missie Davis: What is it?
- Marty Claridge: The love.
- Clark Davis: Where did the skunk find you?
- Marty Claridge: In the barn.
- Missie Davis: We need some more tomatoes, Pa. It took a whole bushel to get her smelling this good.
- Missie Davis: Readin' ain't no adventure.
- Marty Claridge: Once you can read you can have any adventure you've ever dreamed of.
- Marty Claridge: [a letter that Marty writes to Clark] Dear Clark, the wagon train will be leaving soon, but I don't want to go. Ask me to stay. Love, Marty.
- Marty Claridge: There is no way you're going to be my--my midwife! Find someone else!
- Clark Davis: There ain't no time for that.
- Marty Claridge: *Isn't!* I'll be fine. I'll be fine. Did you deliver Missie?
- Clark Davis: No, there was Sarah...
- Missie Davis: But Pa's delivered plenty of calves.
- Marty Claridge: [sarcastically] Oh, that makes me feel so much better.
- Clark Davis: Missie, we'll need a lot of hot water and the shears from the barn. They'll need to be sterilized.
- Marty Claridge: Missie! Missie, don't you dare!
- [Clark gestures and tells Missie to go]
- Marty Claridge: I would rather give birth in a field than have you in here!
- Clark Davis: Childbirth is a natural event.
- Marty Claridge: Ooooooh, if you feel what I'm feeling you'll see how natural it is. Now get out!
- [she has another contraction]
- Marty Claridge: Oh, I can't do this alone. Please help me. Please!
- [she holds up her left hand which has her wedding ring on it]
- Marty Claridge: I just don't understand why the God you pray to would let such unthinkable things happen to decent people.