The Book of Eli Quotes

[last lines]
Eli: 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 for 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 that I may have done,

I'm so sorry about the bad. Thank you for the friend I made. Please watch over her as you watched over me. Thank you for finally allowing me to rest. I'm so very tired, but I go now to my rest at peace. Knowing that I have done right with my time on this earth. I fought the good fight, I finished the race, I kept the faith.

Solara: You know, you say you've been walking for thirty years, right?
Eli: Right?
Solara: Have you ever thought that maybe you were lost?
Eli: Nope.
Solara: Well, how do you know that you're walking in the right direction?
Eli: I walk by faith, not by sight.

Solara: [sighs] What does that mean?
Eli: It means that you know something even if you don't know something.
Solara: That doesn't make any sense.
Eli: It doesn't have to make sense. It's faith, it's faith. It's the flower of light in the field of darkness that's giving me the strength to carry on. You

understand?
Solara: Is that from your book?
Eli: No, it's, uh, Johnny Cash, Live at Folsom Prison.

Carnegie: [to his men] Put a crew together, we're going after him.
Redridge: For a fuckin' book?
Carnegie: IT'S NOT A FUCKIN' 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 want to rule more than one small, fuckin' town, we have to have it.

People will come from all over, they'll do exactly what I tell 'em if the words are from the book. It's happened before and it'll happen again. All we need is that book.

Eli: The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures: he leads me beside the still waters.He restores my soul he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for thou art with me
Solara: That's beautiful, did you write that?

Eli: Yes, I did.
[chuckles]
Eli: No, no. No. No, that was around a long time before you and I got here, that's for sure.

Eli: Write everything exactly as I say it. The first book of Moses, called Genesis. Chapter 1, verse 1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Eli: Verse 2. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Eli: Verse 3. And

God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Claudia: [brought in to Carnegie's office] Where's Solara?
Carnegie: Out there... her choice. I tried to... bring her back. She refused.
Claudia: What did you do that she refused?
Carnegie: [pushes the braille book toward her] Read it.
Claudia: What did you do to my daughter?

Carnegie: [raising his voice] Read it!
Claudia: [shouting and slamming her hands down on the desk] What did you do to my daughter?
[Claudia's hands brush the braille writing. She realizes why Carnegie needs her to read the book and smiles]
Carnegie: You can start any time.
Claudia: [pushing the book

away from her] Sorry. It's been so long, I don't remember.
Carnegie: [pushes the book back to her] Read it...
Claudia: [smiling vindictively] Do I have to? Really?
Carnegie: [pleading now] No, you have to... please...!
Claudia: Your leg.
Carnegie: It doesn't hurt anymore.

Claudia: I can smell it.
[Claudia feels her away around the desk and stretches her hand out toward Carnegie, reaching to touch his head. He leans forward and touches his forehead to her hand]
Claudia: You worked so hard for that book. You sacrificed so much, so many men. More than you could spare.
[Claudia starts to lean her face in toward

Carnegie, almost nose-to-nose with him]
Claudia: 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. And you're *feverish.*
[she pushes his head away and straightens up, smiling in satisfaction]
Claudia: I can't imagine what

it must feel like to have what you want so close, and it might as well be a million miles away.
Carnegie: [as Claudia starts to leave] Stop it!... are you leaving me? Claudia!
[Claudia keeps walking away, not answering]
Carnegie: Claudia!

Eli: They say the war tore a hole in the sky, you've probably heard the stories.
Solara: Yeah.
Eli: The war tore a hole in the sky, the sun came down, burnt everything, everyone, I wandered, I didn't really know what I should do or where I was going. I was just moving from place to place, trying to stay alive. And then one day I

heard this voice. I don't know how to explain it, it's like it was coming from inside me. But I could hear it clear as day. Clear as I can hear you talking to me now. It told me to carry the book west, it told me that a path would be laid out before me, that I'd be led to a place where the book would be safe. It told me I'd be protected, against anyone or anything that tried to stand in my way. If

only I would have faith. That was thirty years ago and I've been walking ever since.
Solara: And you did all this because a voice told you to?
Eli: I know what I hear, I know what I heard, I know I'm not crazy, I didn't imagine it

Hijack Leader: What ya got there in that pack?
Eli: What pack?
Hijacker: He got a gun.
Hijack Leader: Shit, it ain't loaded. Oh, they never are. Ain't that right, old man? Open the pack and tip it out on the road nice and slow.
Eli: Can't do that.
Hijack Leader:

Take off the fucking pack. And put it on the ground. Or DIE!
Young Woman Hijacker: Ooooh.
Hijack Leader: [pokes Eli hard] Are you listening to me?
Eli: I am now.
Hijack Leader: Good.
Eli: You listening to me?
Hijack Leader: Yeah.

Eli: Good. Put that hand on me again, you won't get it back.
Hijack Leader: [laughing] Do you believe this fucking guy? All right, you want to do it the hard way.
[the leader grabs at Eli, who pulls a machete and cuts off his hand at the wrist]
Hijack Leader: How'd you do that? He just cut my hand off! What are you standing

around for? Kiss him!
Hijacker: What'd he say?
Eli: He's in shock. I think he meant, "Kill him."