- Ike Mantle: Hey Red. Red! We'd, uh, kind admired to know what happened to you before we go on.
- Red Hayle: That woman.
- Ike Mantle: Red? You saying a woman done this to you?
- Red Hayle: She meant to kill me.
- Duncan McKaskel: When I was through with that damn war, I promised myself I'd never again be responsible for the death of another human being.
- Susanna McKaskel: One does what one has to. I now realize that this country is not just filled with nice, well-mannered people. Back east, we had laws to restrain them. Out here, we have nothing. We have no choice.
- Susanna McKaskel: I have no choice.