I want to come with you.
No, you don't.
... I hate it here.
Then change it.
Eli
Denzel Washington · 23 quotes
Carnegie
Gary Oldman · 13 quotes
Solara
Mila Kunis · 13 quotes
Claudia
Jennifer Beals · 4 quotes
Redridge
Ray Stevenson · 3 quotes
Hoyt
Joe Pingue · 1 quote
Most scenes together: Eli & Solara (9), Eli & Carnegie (2), Carnegie & Redridge (2)
The Book of Eli quotes
Page 2 of 3I'm sorry.
For what?
This. This is all my fault.
No, it's not.
No, it is. If I didn't come with you, none of this would've happened.
It's not your fault. I did what I had to do.
I didn't think anything could make you give up that book.
I thought it was too important. All the years I've been carrying it and reading it every day. I got so caught up with keeping it safe, I forgot to live by what I learned from it.
Yeah, and what's that?
Just... do for others more than you do for yourself. That's what I got from it, anyway.
So, how old are you?
Excuse me?
It's just that I haven't really seen too many people your age come through here before.
Well, it's been... 30 winters since the flash. I really don't remember.
Do you remember what it was like? I mean, in the world before.
Yeah.
Well, what was it like?
People had more than they needed. We had no idea what was precious, what wasn't. We threw away things people kill each other for now.
Really?
Yeah.
I just, I just wanna look at it.
[Walks around him]
Listen, I can't even read! Come on, please, let me just see it. What is with you? It is just a book!
[Sits at table placing cloth fold and gun on table and then wraps up bible]
It's not just a book.
What do you mean, it's not just a book?
Look. No more questions about the book, all right? No more questions. All right? [Solara sits on bed] I got a question for you, since you're here.
Well, maybe I'll answer it and maybe I won't.
Where do you get your water?
Can't tell you that.
You can't tell me or you don't know?
Oh, I know. But if you're not talking about the book, I'm not talking about the water.
You're something else, you know. All right, I got another question for you.
Right.
You hungry? There's a lot of food there, more than I can eat. [Walks over to table and turns around tray] Tell you what. We can share it, you know, like old people used to. Okay. Okay? [Solara gets off bed, walks to table and picks up bread roll] Wait a minute, wait a minute. Wait. [Takes bread roll from Solara and motions to her chair] Sit. Sit. [Lays out placemat] This'll be for you. [Opens both hands before her] Give me your hands.
What are you doing?
Trust me. Give me your hands. [She complies] Close your eyes. Dear Lord, we thank you for this meal. We thank you for a warm bed... and a roof over our head on cold nights such as this. It's been too long.
Is this from your book?
Don't interrupt. Close your eyes. We thank you for the gift of companionship... in hard times like these. Amen. [Pulls back both hands]
Now we eat?
You hear that?
Hear what?
Don't move. Don't move. [Shoots bird out of sky, hands archery bow to Solara] Here. Take the wire off of that. Spool it up. [Walks over to bird carcass]
What is that?
Dinner.
Guard
[Eli and Solara reach Lombardi's sanctuary. A guard holds them at gunpoint. Eli and Solara hold their hands up.]
That's far enough! What's your business here?
My name is Eli. I have a King James Bible in my possession.
Guard
Remain where you are. Don't make any sudden moves, or you will be fired upon.
[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.
[about the Bible, slaps Redridge]
It's not a **** book! It's a weapon! A weapon aimed right at the hearts and minds of the weak and the desperate! It will give us control of them! If we wanna rule more than one small **** town, we have to have it! People will come from all over, they'll do exactly what I tell them ... if the words are from the book! It's happened before, and it'll happen again! All we need is that book!
[Asked by Eli if her blindness was caused by war or by the nuclear bomb]
I was born this way. I think probably I'm lucky, because I was already used to being like this ... by the time it happened.
[Seeing that Eli's Bible is actually in Braille]
It can't be... it can't be... it's IMPOSSIBLE! IT CAN'T BE!