- Buford Anchors: [hollering] Melanie! Y'all get that jackass unloaded and tote them vittles into the house.
- Melanie: [angry] I'm tellin' you again, I ain't gonna do it! I've had it up to here! At first I thought maybe you was a good guy. But you're nothin'. You hear me? Nothin'! I'm gettin' out of here.
- Buford Anchors: [upset] Doggone, ya just can't be good to a woman!
- Buford Anchors: It ain't like I didn't marry you on purpose.
- Melanie: No, you never do nothin' on purpose. You didn't make me sick on purpose, either.
- Buford Anchors: [sympathetic] Honey, you sick?
- Melanie: [upset] Yeah, I'm dizzy as hell, and I'm gonna have a baby.
- Buford Anchors: [stupidly] A what?
- Melanie: [exasperated] A B-A-B-B-Y, baby!
- Silas: I had an idea that no-good, sneakin' river-rat, Rafe Anchors, might have been playin' Peepin' Tom around here.
- Honey Bee: I ain't seen Rafe all day.
- Silas: [emphatic] And you better not, no time, never, no more!
- Honey Bee: [pleading] But, Pa, how am I ever gonna get married if you don't let no boy come a-courtin' me?
- Silas: Courtin' and a-wooin' brings dallyin' and doin'. I don't aim for you to have no woods-colt by that dirty river trash.
- Honey Bee: [passionately] I'm just a-itchin' ta get married!
- Silas: [sympathetic] I know you're a-itchin', Honey Bee.
- Silas: [catching Honey Bee making out with a man, outdoors] You harlot!
- Honey Bee: [pleading] No, Pa, we was just talkin' about bein' married.
- Silas: [angry] Don't you lie to me! You was playin' like you already was! Who was it? Shub Anchors, or that skinny Rafe?
- Honey Bee: [defending her boyfriend] I ain't gonna tell!
- Silas: [mad] You'll tell, girl, when I get you home, and you get a whoopin' you never forget.
- Honey Bee: [upset] I have half a mind to run off and get married.
- Silas: [sarcastic] Half a mind is all you got!
- Preacher Parsons: [a bit confused] Now, just tell me slowly, who is Melanie?
- Lucianne: Why, that's the woman my Pa wants you to marry him to.
- Preacher Parsons: Oh, now I understand. She's your Pa's fiancée.
- Lucianne: [correcting him, firmly] No, she's his *woman*.
- Preacher Parsons: [at the wedding] I pronounce you man and wife. Go on, you can kiss your bride now, Buford.
- Buford Anchors: [embarrassed] You mean, in front of all these people? Aw, shucks. C'mon, let's all have a drink! Where's my jug?