"You worked so hard for that book. You sacrificed so much. So many men... more than you could spare. Now all those people who were too scared to even say your name, they're downstairs tearing up the bar right now. Did you know that? And there's no one there to stop them."

"I didn't think you would ever give up the book. I thought it was important to you."

"I can't imagine what it must feel like, having what you want so close, and it might as well be a million miles away."

"[about the Bible] It's a weapon! A weapon aimed right at the hearts and minds of the weak and the desperate."

"[Seeing that Eli's Bible is actually in Braille] It can't be...it can't be...it's IMPOSSIBLE! IT CAN'T BE!"

"[about her blindness] I was like this since birth. I was lucky... I was already used to living like this."

"Have you ever thought that maybe you were lost?"

"I know what I heard. I know what I hear. I know I'm not crazy."

"[When Carnegie confronts him and demands he hand the Bible over to him] I always believed there was a place where this book belonged, where it was needed. But I haven't found it yet."

"[about his Bible] In all these years I've been carrying it and reading it every day... I got so caught up in keeping it safe that I forgot to live by what I learned from it."

"[repeated line] Read it!"

"Dear Lord, thank you for giving me the strength and the conviction to complete the task you entrusted to me. Thank you for guiding me straight and true through the many obstacles in my path, and keeping me resolute when all around seemed lost. Thank you for your protection and your many signs along the way. Thank you for any good I may have done, and I'm so sorry about the bad. Thank you for the friend I made. Please watch over her as you have watched over me. Thank you for finally allowing me to rest. I am so very tired. But I go now to my rest, at peace, knowing that I have done right in my time on this Earth, I fought the good fight. I finished the race. I kept the faith."

"I need that book. I want that book!"

"[about Eli] It's like he's protected somehow, like there's nothing that can touch him."

"Cursed be the ground, for our sake. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth, for us, for out of the ground we were taken for the dust that we are... and to the dust we shall return."

"Keith Davis - Hijacker"

"Don Tai - Hijacker"

"Tom Waits - Engineer"

"Chris Browning - Hijack Leader"

"Michael Gambon - George"

"Richard Cetrone - Hijacker"

"Stay on the path. It's not your concern. Stay on the path. It's not your concern."

"Lateef Crowder - Hijacker / Construction Thug"

"Some will kill to have it. He will kill to protect it."

"Molly Parker - Motherly Woman"

"Michael K. Williams - The Thief"

"Guy Pearce - Veteran"

"Charlize Theron - Woman"

"Viggo Mortensen - Man"

"Kodi Smit-McPhee - Boy"

"Garret Dillahunt - Gang Member"

"Robert Duvall - Old Man"

"The clocks stopped at one seventeen. There was a long shear of bright light, then a series of low concussions. By day the dead impaled on spikes along the road. I think it's October but I can't be sure. I haven't kept a calender for five years. Each day is more gray than the one before. It is cold and growing colder as the world slowly dies. No animals have survived and all the crops are long gone. Soon all the trees in the world will fall. The roads are peopled by refugees towing carts and gangs carrying weapons, looking for fuel and food. Within a year there was fire on the ridges and deranged chanting. There has been cannibalism. Cannibalism is the great fear. Mostly I worry about food. Always food. Food and the cold and our shoes. Sometimes I tell the boy old stories of courage and justice - difficult as they are to remember. All I know is the child is my warrant and if he is not the word of God, then God never spoke."

"I told the boy when you dream about bad things happening, it means you're still fighting and you're still alive. It's when you start to dream about good things that you should start to worry."

"[to the boy] I will kill anyone who touches you. Because that's my job."

"If I were God, I would have made the world just so and no different. And so I have you... I have you."

"I used to avoid people like they were zombies before they were zombies. Now that they are all now zombies, I kinda miss people."

"[to Tallahassee] You are like a giant cock-blocking robot, like developed in a secret government lab!"

"Emma Stone - Wichita"

"Jesse Eisenberg - Columbus"

"[voiceover, face to face with a zombie clown] Oh, God. Look at this fucking clown. Of course...it had to be a clown! No, wait. It had to be a clown. And it had to be Wichita up there to make me realize that some rules... [the words "RULE #17: DON'T BE A HERO" appear, with the word "DON'T" falling down, and turning into "RULE #17: BE A HERO"] ...are meant to be broken. Time to nut up or shut up. Fuck this clown."

"A comedy that kills."

"Woody Harrelson - Tallahassee"

"Nut up or shut up."

"Survival rule #21: Avoid strip clubs."

"This place is so dead"

"Survival rule #28: Get a kickass partner."