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The Village

The Village quotes

46 total quotes

August Nicholson
Edward Walker
Ivy Walker
Lucius Hunt
Multiple Characters




View Quote Beatrice: It is amazing what two people love chooses to unite. It follows no rules.
View Quote Ivy Walker: When we are married, will you dance with me? I find dancing very agreeable. Why can you not say what is in your head?
Lucius Hunt: Why can you not stop saying what is in yours? Why must you lead, when I want to lead? If I want to dance I will ask you to dance. If I want to speak I will open my mouth and speak. Everyone is forever plaguing me to speak further. Why? What good is it to tell you you are in my every thought from the time I wake? What good can come from my saying that I sometimes cannot think clearly or do my work properly? What gain can rise of my telling you the only time I feel fear as others do is when I think of you in harm? That is why I am on this porch, Ivy Walker. I fear for your safety before all others. And yes, I will dance with you on our wedding night.
View Quote Edward Walker: Ivy...
Ivy Walker: Yes, father.
Edward Walker: Do your very best not to scream.
View Quote Alice Hunt: And what makes you think that he has feelings for me?
Lucius Hunt: The way he never touches you.
View Quote Lucius Hunt: Sometimes we don't do things, yet others know we want to do things so we don't do them.
Alice Hunt: What nonsense do you speak?
Lucius Hunt: You needn't worry. Nothing will happen to me.
Alice Hunt: You remind me of a colt sometimes.
View Quote Ivy Walker: [after Noah hands her some red berries] Oh, berries! What a splendid present!
Lucius Hunt: Be cautious. You are holding the bad color.
Ivy Walker: [becomes worried, covers the berries with her hands] This color attracts Those We Don't Speak Of. [to Noah] You ought not pick that color berry anymore.
[Noah nods]
Lucius Hunt: [In a hushed whisper] He picked it from his pocket.
Ivy Walker: Your breathing has changed. What's wrong?
Lucius Hunt: [to Noah] If you did not pick this now, where did you get it?
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Lucius Hunt: [to the elders] Today at resting rock, Noah Percy handed Ivy Walker berries of the bad color. When asked where he had found these berries, for they were unlike any I have seen, he pointed to the drawing on Resting Rock. It is my knowledge that Noah has traveled into the woods on many occasions. It also confirms my belief that the creatures did not harm Noah because of his innocence, and they would let me through to fetch medicines.
View Quote Lucius Hunt: Do you not wish you had your sight?
Ivy Walker: I see the world, Lucius Hunt. Just not as you see it.
View Quote Lucius Hunt: You run like a boy.
Ivy Walker: Thank you.
View Quote Ivy Walker: Noah Percy come here this minute. You must go into the quiet room.
Noah Percy: No, no I'll cry quarts.
Ivy Walker: If you will not go into the quiet room we must strike a deal.
Noah Percy: Capital idea.
Ivy Walker: You must promise never to hit anyone ever again.
Noah Percy: No, no hitting.
Ivy Walker: Do you promise to keep this deal secret?
Noah Percy: Like a church mouse.
[They shake hands. Ivy points to her cheek. Noah kisses it]
Ivy Walker: The deal is struck.
View Quote Mrs. Clack: [after Edward Walker tells the group he has sent Ivy to the towns to fetch medicines] What have you done?
Edward Walker: He is the victim of a crime.
Mrs. Clack: We have agreed never to go back. Never
Edward Walker: What was the purpose of our leaving? Don't forget, it was out of hope of something good and right.
Robert Percy: You should not have made decisions without us!
Edward Walker: I'm guilty, Robert! I made a decision of a heart, I cannot look into another's eyes and see the same look I see in August's without justification! It is too painful, I cannot bear it!
Mrs. Clack: You have jeopardized everything we have made.
Edward Walker: Who do you think will continue this place, this life? Do you plan to live forever? It is in them that our future lies, it is in Ivy and Lucius that this way of life will continue. Yes I have risked, I hope I am always able to risk everything for the just and right cause. If we did not make this decision, we could never again call ourselves innocent, and that in the end is what we have protected here, innocence! That I'm not ready to give up.
August Nicholson: Let her go. If it ends, it ends. We can move towards hope, that's what's beautiful about this place. We cannot run from heartache. My brother was slain in the towns, the rest of my family died here. Heartache is a part of life, we know that now. Ivy is running toward hope, let her run. If this place is worthy, she'll be successful in her quest.
Mrs. Clack: How could you have sent her. She is blind.
Edward Walker: She is more capable than most in this village. And she is led by love. The world moves for love. It kneels before it in awe.
View Quote Young Security Guard: You're not allowed to go in there. Please return to your vehicle.
Ivy Walker: What was that noise?
Young Security Guard: What are you doing out here? How did you get here?
Ivy Walker: Are you from the towns?
Young Security Guard: Um, Where are you from?
Ivy Walker: The woods.
View Quote Ivy Walker: What is your name?
Young Security Guard: Kevin.
Ivy Walker: Kevin, you have kindness in your voice. I did not expect that.
View Quote KITTY: I'm in love! I want your permission to marry, Papa!
EDWARD: There's a proper manner in which these things are supposed to happen, such as the boy would normally be standing next to you, in a moment such as this! Where is the BOY in all this, Kitty?!
KITTY: I haven't spoken to him as of yet.
EDWARD: The young man is unaware of your intentions?!
View Quote LUCIUS: Are you not angry you have no sight?
IVY: I see the world, Lucius Hunt. Just not as you see it.
View Quote Lucius: It is cold outside. You ought to go in.
IVY: Why are you on this porch?
LUCIUS: It is not safe.
IVY: There are other porches. Do you find me too much of a tomboy? I do long to do boy things. Like that game the boys play at the stump. They put their backs to the woods, and see how long they can wait before getting scared. That's so exciting. I understand you hold the record. It will never be broken, they say.
LUCIUS: It's just children's games.
IVY: How is it you are brave when all the rest of us shake in our boots?
LUCIUS: I do not worry about what will happen, only what needs to be done.