- Urban Mother: [Randall standing near by] Tell me again, what's so important we had to dress up the girls and bring them all the way here for something you can hardly see?
- Urban Father: This is history. Hatfields and McCoys are famous.
- Urban Mother: Famous for what?
- Half-Drunk Local: Killin' each other.
- Nancy McCoy: [standing over dying Frank] I shall miss him. Bad Frank could kill Hatfields like no one else!
- Johnse Hatfield: [to his father] I think all I ever wanted to do was play. Just laugh and play. It seems like nobody around here ever laughs anymore. Except maybe when a McCoy gets maimed or killed.
- Sally McCoy: After I die I would like my body destroyed by electricity. Can you remember that, Roseanna?
- Roseanna McCoy: Yes, Mama.
- Ellison 'Cotton Top' Mounts: [on the stand] Is it true that I murdered her in the first degree?
- Perry Cline: Alifair McCoy. You murdered her. Did anyone tell you to say this?
- Ellison 'Cotton Top' Mounts: You said to say that no one did.
- Perry Cline: You mean no one told you to say anything?
- Ellison 'Cotton Top' Mounts: Only that I murdered her in the first degree.
- [laughter in the court]
- 'Devil' Anse Hatfield: What do you want, Randall? What do you want out of this life?
- Randall McCoy: Just get through it.
- Sally McCoy: You must let your heart break. Only when the most innocent part of you suffers can there be change. Or else nothing remains of you.
- Sally McCoy: [to her husband] You are not sending me away to get better, you are sending me away so you can go to hell with Perry Cline.
- 'Devil' Anse Hatfield: [about their attack] Randall got away?
- Jim Vance: Yup.
- Levicy Hatfield: And what of Randall's wife?
- Jim Vance: She run mad. Barreled straight at me in her dishabille.
- Levicy Hatfield: And?
- Jim Vance: Yeah, I... I laid her in the back of the ear with my rifle butt. I believe she's done.
- 'Devil' Anse Hatfield: What do we do now, Jim?
- Jim Vance: Hmm?
- 'Devil' Anse Hatfield: Kill 'em all?
- Levicy Hatfield: Your snoring used to keep me awake. Now it's the silence.
- 'Devil' Anse Hatfield: My mind won't rest.
- Levicy Hatfield: You're thinking about Uncle Jim?
- 'Devil' Anse Hatfield: I always thought someday I'd have to kill him myself.
- Roseanna McCoy: We was friends, Nancy. Why'd you hurt me the way you did?
- Nancy McCoy: You hurt yourself taking up with Johnse. Me marrying him just saved you a whole lot of pain.
- Roseanna McCoy: You love him?
- Nancy McCoy: I never did. I hate him. Just like all the demon Hatfields. Me and Johnse was never nothing against you. It was just plain old revenge. Swore to killing Hatfields when I was young. Revenge is all I got inside of me.
- Judge Tobias Wagner: [handing down sentencing] Cotton Top Ellison Mounts: death by hanging.
- Ellison 'Cotton Top' Mounts: [being handcuffed] That's fine because Devil Anse, Cap, and all of them are gonna come at midnight all armed and terrible. Riding dark horses with lightening hooves that don't never die. They won't let me hang.
- 'Devil' Anse Hatfield: [to Cap] You're gonna have children one day, and your children, they're not gonna care about our old grudges and slights from long ago. And their children... Hell, their children won't even know about it. It's time for us to move on, son.
- 'Devil' Anse Hatfield: [to crowd] Most of you have done some trapping and on occasion found a winter fox that's left his leg behind him in a trap. So it is with us on this difficult day. Leave our leg behind or die in the trap.
- Ellison 'Cotton Top' Mounts: [as he's about to be hanged] The Hatfields made me do it. They hornswoggled me with love.
- [last lines]
- Judge Valentine 'Wall' Hatfield: [narrating] The Hatfields and the McCoys without intention, have become part of the American vocabulary. Their epic feud, long fought to separate their two families has forever linked them together. So much so that one name cannot be spoken without the other. In 2003, after 138 years, a symbolic peace treaty was signed by 60 descendants from both families. A final truce between the Hatfields and the McCoys.
- Title Card: It is said that Sally McCoy died in a mental hospital. Randall McCoy was buried next to his beloved wife. Wall Hatfield never lived to appeal. He died in prison a few months after sentencing. Johnse Hatfield, upon his return from Oregon, was sentenced to life in prison. After saving the Warden from a knife attack, Johnse recieved an early pardon. He married four more times. Cap Hatfield became a lawyer. Then served as a Deputy Sheriff. Elias Hatfield left Mate Creek to raise a family. His son, Henry D. Hatfield, became Governor of West Virginia, and a U.S. Senator. Perry Cline died two years after the trials. Nancy McCoy-Hatfield-Phillips died several years after Bad Frank's death. She is buried alongside him. Anse died peacefully in his sleep - his funeral attended by over 5,000 mourners. Levicy passed away eight years later. A statue of Anse, sculpted in Italy, marks their double grave site.
- Judge Valentine 'Wall' Hatfield: Hold on,Selkirk.A lawyer's smile reveals that there is more to come.
- Jim Vance: Randall McCoy, come on out and face the day, or else I'll have to burn your house down. You want your little ones consumed in fire? Is that what you want? Their wee bodies a-hissin' and a-steamin'?
- [first lines]
- Undertaker: How old was little Sarah Elizabeth?
- Roseanna McCoy: She was just shy of a year.
- Undertaker: [about casket] Lined with blue velvet.
- Roseanna McCoy: [beginning to cry] Yeah. Yeah, she'd like that.
- Aunt Betty Blankenship: This'll do, Mr. Goodpasture.
- Undertaker: I'll give you some time...
- Aunt Betty Blankenship: She'll rest easy in that.
- Roseanna McCoy: Yeah. Poor little girl. Do you think me and Sarah Elizabeth will recognize each other when I get to heaven?
- Aunt Betty Blankenship: I suspect your brothers are taking care of her, you'll recognize them. They done murder. They might not get there.
- Roseanna McCoy: It's your daughter Roseanna. I'm coming up behind you. I'm standing next to you. You see me, Poppy? You hear my voice?
- Randall McCoy: I hear you.
- Roseanna McCoy: Dead children. A dead grandchild. A mad wife. Anybody would think you'd embrace a still living daughter.
- [starting to cry]
- Roseanna McCoy: When I was a little girl, you once told me I was your favorite. I lived on that for years. Just that tiny bit of approval made me believe I could do anything in this world. Because for all your preaching, and all your praying - in our house, you were God.