Apache (1954)

Jean Peters: Nalinle

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• Massai : Every white man, every Indian, is my enemy. I cannot kill them all and someday they will kill me.

  Nalinle : Then we will live until someday.

• Nalinle : Why did you come back, Massai?

  Massai : This is where I belong.

  Nalinle : Is it? Is this where you plan to die?

  Massai : Only a warrior chooses a place to die. I am no longer a warrior.

• Massai : I must hunt with the bow again. I may not be back tonight.

  Nalinle : You will come back?

  Massai : You know I would not leave my rifle.

• Nalinle : But will they not say that growing corn is woman's work?

  Massai : I am a warrior. What I do can never be woman's work.

• Nalinle : My father wronged you. Many men have wronged you. But now you make yourself worse than they are. Now there is nothing in you but hate. You fight only yourself. You kill only for yourself. You are like a dying wolf biting at its own wounds.

• Massai : You are very silent.

  Nalinle : There are times when words come hard to a woman.

  Massai : Not often.