- [about the town Marshall]
- Amelia Lawson: It's not your fault. If you'd tried to help, you would have been dead too. Would that have made you feel better? He died the way he would have wanted to, in a glorious gunfight, like a character in a dime novel.
- Ethan Allen Cord: Believed he was a character in a dime novel.
- Amelia Lawson: You should leave it alone now. You don't have to do anything.
- Ethan Allen Cord: Oh yes I do.
- Amelia Lawson: Why?
- Ethan Allen Cord: I guess I'm a character in the same dime novel.
- Claire Carroll: I'm glad you're not going to take the job.
- Joseph Carroll: He is going to take the job.
- Claire Carroll: He is not!
- Joseph Carroll: He'd do anything to get away from us.
- Claire Carroll: That's not true.
- Ethan Allen Cord: When you two are finished, let me know what I decided.
- Ethan Allen Cord: Joseph, don't kick the horse. He dosen't like to be kicked.
- Joseph Carroll: You told Claire to kick her horse.
- Ethan Allen Cord: Different horse.
- Joseph Carroll: How do I get him to go?
- Ethan Allen Cord: Say, "Giddy-up."