- Fee: You really think Meggie doesn't love you? She doesn't want Luke, she wants a father for the children. All you would have to do is say one word and she would be with you in a heartbeat
- Meggie Cleary O'Neill: We can still see each other, you're part of my life!
- Ralph: I'm part of your past.
- Meggie Cleary O'Neill: You know, I lied to you the other day. I never stopped loving you. I never could.
- Meggie Cleary O'Neill: [Ralph touches her cheek] It's just... I'm so confused. I don't understand what you want from me.
- Fee: But Dane is not your son!
- Luke O'Neill: [laughs in disbelief] Who then?
- Fee: [whispering] Can't you guess?
- Luke O'Neill: [face clouding as it dawns on him that Dane's father is actually Ralph de Bricassart] That BLOODY Priest... I'll kill him!
- Meggie Cleary O'Neill: When I'm beside you, it's as close to heaven as I can imagine. But even when you're making love it's as if you're trying to reach something beyond me. Look, it's a wonderful idea; the two of us living together in the wilderness. But it's not what you really want.
- Ralph: What I want is you.
- Justine O'Neill: Why did you have to come? We were happy until you came here!
- Ralph: Justine!
- Justine O'Neill: Mom was gonna go back to dad... and he was gonna love me, even if mom didn't. But you stopped that!
- Ralph: That had nothing to do with me!
- Justine O'Neill: No? Funny that it all went wrong just when you showed up. And then, when dad didn't want me and took Dane... I was sad at first. But then something else happened.
- Ralph: What was that?
- Justine O'Neill: I thought, "lf Dane isn't here... mom will have to love me." But she didn't. And she won't now, because you interfered again.
- Ralph: I did what had to be done, Justine. Dane would never have been happy.
- Justine O'Neill: But *I* might have been. This was my chance of happiness with mom... until you got Dane back.
- Ralph: I thought you loved Dane!
- Justine O'Neill: I do, with all my heart. But everyone loves Dane. There doesn't seem to be any left over for me.
- Ralph: Justine, that's not true.
- Justine O'Neill: Isnt it? I saw you when you came back, all beaten and bloody. Did he put up a good fight, my father? To stop you taking Dane... because he loved him? But nobody loves me.