"And I had ‘im handy and helpless. Alone. Too far downstream. And I wanted to do ‘im in. I admit I did. Seein’ the back of his head. One swipe of the cant hook’d be all. It was... I didn’t... but I didn’t... I did not. The day was long as hell on that drive. I was lead-tired. I admit it. But I saw him slippin’, not me. And we saw the jam comin’. And I stood and he slipped. He shouted up. And I just stood. “Tom, you dog!” And I stood, is all. Just stood and watched ‘im git swallowed down by them logs. All I thought when he was done is, “I could use me a smoke.” That’s it. So, I packed up his kit and fixins, as if they was mine. And, well, Ephraim Winslow has a spiffy clean slate. Thomas Howard, he don’t. No prospects. How else am I gonna find respectable work?"

"O what Protean forms swim up from men's minds, and melt in hot Promethean plunder, scorching eyes, with divine shames and horror... And casting them down to Davy Jones. The others, still blind, yet in it see all the divine graces and to Fiddler's Green sent, where no man is suffered to want or toil, but is... Ancient... Mutable and unchanging as the she who girdles 'round the globe. Them's truth."

"How long have we been on this rock? Five weeks? Two days? Where are we? Help me to recollect."

":Cf. Lydia Sigourney, "Sailor's Hymn, at Parting""

"I'm damn-well wedded to this here light, and she's been a finer, truer, quieter wife than any alive-blooded woman."

"Doldrums. Doldrums. Eviler than the Devil. Boredom makes men to villains, and the water goes quick, lad, vanished. The only med'cine is drink. Keeps them sailors happy, keeps 'em agreeable, keeps 'em calm…"

"Should pale death with treble dread Make the oceän caves our bed, God who hear'st the surges roll, Deign to save our suppliant soul."

"And if I tells ye to yank out every single nail from every molderin' nail-hole and suck off every speck of rust till all them nails sparkle like a sperm whale's pecker, and then carpenter the whole light station back together from scrap, and then do it all over again, you'll do it! And by God and by golly, you'll do it smilin', lad, 'cause you'll like it. You'll like it 'cause I says you will! Contradict me again, and I'll dock your wages."

"If I had a steak... I'd fuck it."

"Rob Pattinson as Ephraim Winslow"

"Why’d ya spill yer beans?"

"Who are you again, Tommy? I'm probably a figment of yer imagination. This rock is a figment of yer imagination, too. Yer probably wanderin' through a grove of tag alders, up north in Canady, like a frostbitten maniac talkin' to yerself, knee-deep in the snow, the blizzard overtakin' ye."

"Valeriia Karaman as mermaid"

"Sarah Wayne Callies - Allison Stone"

"Richard Armitage - Gary Fuller"

"Jeremy Sumpter - Jacob Hodges"

"Arlen Escarpeta - Daryl Karley"

"There is no calm before the storm but there's a lot of it in this film."

"Matt Walsh - Peter "Pete" Moore"

"There is no calm before the storm."

"Max Deacon - Donnie Fuller"

"Alycia Debnam-Carey - Kaitlyn Johnston"

"Donnie: [to the camera] And Trey, live everyday like it's your last. 'Cause shit, someday it will be."

"Prepare to go into the storm."

"Nathan Kress - Trey Fuller"

"[on the phone] It's going to be big. [pauses] I don't know how big. They're tornadoes, they don't do courtesy calls."

"Nigel De Brulier as Lichfield Stope."

"Frank Mayo as John Woolfolk."

"Virginia Valli as Millie Stope."

"Ford Sterling as Paul Halvard."

"Wild Oranges, at first surprisingly bitter, but after a moment pungent and zestful with a never-to-be-forgotten flavor."

"Please be nice to me, Millie. Something terrible will happen if you're not."

"Gimme a kiss, Millie. Gimme a kiss, or I'll put you in the swamp!"

"From across the still water came the languorous perfume of oleanders and orange blossoms."

"Thrust unwillingly into the horror of the Civil War, Litchfield Stope had been stricken with the curse of fear, and the obsession had descended upon his granddaughter Millie."

"Life is so dreadfully in the dark. There are maps to guide us to strange places, but none for souls."

"Mystery, the insidious scents of earth, the veiled lure of sex. Life's traps were set with just such treacheries...!"

"Don't you feel any response at all in your heart... the slightest return for my longing?"

"[to Paul] If anything happens to me, the boat and a sum of money belong to you. Everything else that I own will go to Miss Stope."

"John Woolfolk's loss of his young bride turned him against the world. He dreaded to be ensnared again by love, lest the cup of happiness once more be dashed from his lips, and for three years he had found a haven of solitude upon the vast wastes of the sea. Paul Halvard, cook and sailor, was his only companion."

"Charles A. Post as Iscah Nicholas."

"[to John] You remind me of the cast-iron dog that used to stand on our lawn. I talked to it by the hour, but it just rusted away... cold and indifferent to the last."

"Ron Brown as Jess Bradley."

"Charlie Ruggles as Goodtime Charlie."

"Brian Russell as Potlatch."

"Chainsaw as Himself."

"Rex Allen as Narrator."

"Linda Wallace as Jess's Fiancee."

"Jim Wilson as Farmer."