- Water Man: Go as you wish. That which is yours will always return to you. That which you take will always be taken from you.
- Gideon: Your sister, she don't take kindly to thieving. There's plenty of time for that when you grow up.
- Little Brother: Afraid I'm gonna have to ask you to stop walking.
- Gideon: Let me be, boy. Best just go on back up to your kin.
- Little Brother: Mister, I never shot nobody in the back before. So it's best you just turn around, and you get what's coming to you.
- Gideon: Boy, now you put that gun up and go on.
- Little Brother: Turn around.
- Gideon: [turns and throws knife into Virgils' neck. Virgil falls off his horse. Gideon bends down and pulls out the knife] You're a fool, boy.
- [whips blood off his knife onto his victim]
- Gideon: I told you too let me be
- Madame Louise Fair: Spoken like a true sinner.
- Gideon: Well, hell, don't matter much out here.
- Madame Louise Fair: Man's got to do what a man's got to do, right?
- Hayes: Say, how'd you come by that scar on your neck? Indians? Them savages?
- Minister: No, it was worse. Mormons. Praise be to God and a good rifle, he answered my prayers and not his.
- Hayes: You ought to have a talk with your God about that. Figure he ought to be more careful. You being the chosen folk and all.