Eliza Jane quotes from Little House on the Prairie

Eliza Jane

How's Laura?

Caroline

[turning to Almanzo] She's fine, and so is your new baby daughter! Meet Rose Wilder! Isn't she beautiful?

Almanzo

Good thing it's a girl. A man can't very well play ball with his son when he's a cripple!

Almanzo

I don't want anyone taking care of me. Not you, not Laura. Nobody.

Eliza Jane

You have no choice.

Almanzo

Yes, I do. I can die.

Eliza Jane

Almanzo, you don't mean that!

Almanzo

I pray for it every night. If there's a God in Heaven, He'll let me die. Please go away, Eliza Jane. Go away.

Eliza Jane

[to Almanzo] What are you doing?

Almanzo

I'm building a house for me and my family to live in.

Eliza Jane

Why? We're moving to Minneapolis. You can't build a house here!

Charles

Eliza Jane--

Eliza Jane

Look, this came today! It's a job, Almanzo. A proper job! One you can handle from your wheelchair. Now you don't have to worry about this silly farm anymore.

Charles

Maybe Almanzo doesn't think this is a silly farm.

Eliza Jane

He'll be a lot better off once we get him to Minneapolis.

Charles

He doesn't want to spend the rest of his life in that chair!

Eliza Jane

It's not my doing that he's in the wheelchair.

Charles

Isn't it? It seems to me that as long as you were doing everything for him, he had no reason to get out of it.

Almanzo

[to Eliza Jane] I'm standing on my own two feet and I don't want you to take that away from me.

Eliza Jane

Almanzo!

Almanzo

You've always been my big sister. I've listened to you, looked up to you. I always thought you knew what was best for me.

Eliza Jane

I do want what's best for you!

Almanzo

I know you do. But you need to let me decide what that is from now on.

Eliza Jane

This job! It's what we've been waiting for!

Almanzo

It's what you've been waiting for. I want to be a farmer. That's all I've ever wanted out of the whole world. After we finish raising the house and working the fields for next year's crops two weeks ago, I didn't know what I was going to do. Now I do.

Eliza Jane

[backs away and starts crying] After everything I've done for you, I can't believe you're going to throw it all away! [runs off]

Almanzo

[to Charles] I didn't want to hurt her like that.

Charles

She'll be all right.