A Far Off Place (1993)

Reese Witherspoon: Nonnie Parker

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• Nonnie Parker : Are you saying we should cross the Kalahari? That's impossible.

  Xhabbo : Wind can do it, we can do it.

• Nonnie Parker : [When he refuses to let her hunt poachers with Colonel Theron]  Dad, wasn't it you who told me people need to stand up for what they believe in, or nothing's ever gonna change.

  Paul Parker : People need to sit down and talk, otherwise *people* won't change.

  Nonnie Parker : I've seen a lot of sitting and talking around here, not much changing. If you were George Washington's father, we'd still be British colonists.

• Harry Winslow : So, you really think we can make it to Karlstown?

  Nonnie Parker : If the wind can do it, then we can do it.

  Harry Winslow : Don't give me that Bushman crap. I want a real answer.

  Nonnie Parker : You want a real answer?

  Harry Winslow : ...Let me hear the bushman version again.

• Harry Winslow : You lied to me.

  Nonnie Parker : Look I didn't lie to you, all right?

  Harry Winslow : I said 'how far?' you said 'pretty far.'

  Nonnie Parker : Well 2,000 kilometers *is* pretty far.

  Harry Winslow : No, that's like *impossibly* far! That's like walking from New York to Miami!

• Nonnie Parker : We're dead now, we can have whatever we want.

• [last lines] 

  Nonnie Parker : [to departing Harry]  Don't look back.