- Petrus Olausson: In Sweden I was fined 200 Riksdaler for reading the Bible in my own house. Sweden is ruined by wicked powers. Every night I thank God in my prayers for my new homeland.
- Kristina: I'm not accepting everything you do.
- Karl-Oskar: Trust me, Kristina.
- Kristina: You think you're the cleverest. You never ask us.
- Karl-Oskar: I ask for your advice, sometimes.
- Kristina: Perhaps, sometimes, but you always do what you like.
- Karl-Oskar: Are you stuck?
- Ulrika: [laughs] It's your fault. You made the chair too small. You're old enough to know, that women are broader than men. God made us like that so we lie firmly on our backs when obeying his commandment to be fruitful.
- Samuel Nöjd: She's got the knack to make porridge! Ulrika's the sort of woman for me!
- Danjel: But you have a woman already.
- Samuel Nöjd: The Indian girl! The only food she can cook, is good enough for swine.
- Danjel: Why do you keep her then?
- Samuel Nöjd: She's all right to sleep with. She's so small - down there. All Indian women are small.
- Robert: Karl-Oskar has to be aware of the Indians. They're cleverer than the white man, and, in any case, they don't chop up the ground.
- Danjel: We were meant to move here. We must have neither regret nor fear.
- Karl-Oskar: I regret it! I regret not having moved here 6 years ago, when I became of age. No one's going to move me now. And that's the truth as I'm sitting on this here chopping block.
- Kristina: Karl-Oskar, don't you ever long for the old country?
- Karl-Oskar: Sometimes, maybe.
- Kristina: I can't help it.
- Karl-Oskar: Dearest. Wait, I'll get you something.
- Kristina: Anna's old shoe!
- Karl-Oskar: It helps me to remember. When I'm homesick. Maybe it can help you too. One day our children will thank us for coming here to America.
- Kristina: You think so?
- Karl-Oskar: I feel it. I know it.
- Kristina: Maybe. One never knows.
- Karl-Oskar: Kristina, do you remember when we moved here last fall, you said it was almost as pretty as back home in Duvemåla? Maybe we could call our home here Duvemåla. What do you say to that? Or New Duvemåla.
- Kristina: Just think, that I - Duvemåla.
- Karl-Oskar: Yeah.
- Kristina: Then we don't live at Ki-Chi-Saga any more. We live at Duvemåla.
- Ulrika: When I married I hadn't had a man for 4 long years. So it felt lovely using my body for that, which it was created for. And it's a union blessed by God.
- Robert: Kristina, you don't think I'm afraid to die?
- Kristina: Everyone is afraid to die, Robert.
- Robert: Not I. Death doesn't affect me.
- Kristina: Shhh. You're blaspheming.
- Robert: Nothing affects me anymore, not for better nor for worse. Do you know why?
- Kristina: No, tell me.
- Robert: I've reconciled myself to fate, that's all. Do you understand, Kristina? I'm not being haughty. On the contrary, I'm humble. I've reconciled myself.
- Immigrant Carpenter: Whining and grumbling until moss grows on his prick.
- [to his assistant]
- Immigrant Carpenter: You'll have to do what Samuel Nojd did. Take one of the brown ones to do it.
- Karl-Oskar: I could never go to bed with an Indian woman.
- Immigrant Carpenter: You'd crawl over there, you too. Nothing wrong with the box, even if they're smallish.
- Immigrant Carpenter: I was thinking, if we write to the government of Sweden, they'll send a shipment of ladies over. Of course, fine women. Then, we'd promise to relieve them of their virginity the very night, or at the very latest, the second night. If there is a virgin left at sunrise, we'll have to pay a 1,000 dollar fine.
- Kristina: You mean Ulrika? We're the best of friends.
- Jonas Petter: Friends? But she's married to the Baptist priest in Stillwater!
- Fina-Kajsa: Rebaptized!
- Kristina: I know. But that's her business.
- Jonas Petter: Then know this too: we must not communicate with lost souls. Do not open your door to this woman. With her you admit a spiritual enemy into your home. We warn you of Christian love.
- Fina-Kajsa: Friendship makes you blind.
- Jonas Petter: Dear Kristina, these evil spirits disguise themselves as our friends.
- Jonas Petter: You must correct your foolish wife, Nilsson! Help us make her see the error of her ways.
- Karl-Oskar: This is absurd!
- Jonas Petter: Yes, it is.
- Karl-Oskar: Kristina has the right to open her door to anyone she likes. Don't you give orders in my house! I'm in no need of a guardian, nor is my wife. Now it's been said, once and for all.
- Kristina: You want to enlist to ease your conscience?
- Karl-Oskar: Yes, that's right.
- Kristina: What does your conscience say about the fifth commandment? Thou shalt not kill.
- Karl-Oskar: That doesn't apply in war.
- Kristina: The catechism doesn't say war is excepted.
- Karl-Oskar: One has a right to defend oneself.
- Kristina: And the man you kill? He has the same right.
- Karl-Oskar: Kristina, you don't want me to do it.
- Kristina: I don't want you to kill anyone. I don't want you to go into eternity guilty of bloodshed, that's why. If you take another's life, you lose your own. I don't want your soul to be lost. Take care of your everlasting life.
- Kristina: Forgive me for what I prayed for last summer. For not wanting any more children. Now Thou hast shown that it is not Thy will. There must be a God. Do you hear me? There must! c
- Kristina: I want to be your wife again. I've come back to you. Don't you want me?
- Karl-Oskar: You don't know what you're doing, Kristina! You're causing pain to yourself.
- Kristina: Don't worry, I know what I'm doing.
- Karl-Oskar: We can't risk your life.
- Kristina: My life is in the hands of the Almighty.
- Karl-Oskar: It's too dangerous. How dare you?
- Kristina: It's easy. I don't care about the doctor. I trust in God. If I live, it is His will. If I die, it is His will.
- Karl-Oskar: Don't you trust in God, Larrsson?
- Larrsson: He only helps those who help themselves.
- Karl-Oskar: That's what I've always thought.
- Larrsson: Lincoln has been too lenient. The whites offered the redskins the Holy Gospel and they answered with tomahawks.
- Kristina: You're not to worry, Karl-Oskar. I'll soon be well. I know it. - - In the parish they're chiming the bells.
- Karl-Oskar: Somebody...
- Kristina: Why?
- Karl-Oskar: I wonder as well. Maybe for someone who - someone...