- Albert Jethro Chegwidden: Colonel, take the Gunney with you.
- Sarah MacKenzie: I can take care of myself, Admiral.
- Albert Jethro Chegwidden: Oh, I know it's the marines aboard the Guadalcanal I want to protect.
- Maj. Miles Holmes: With Susan, I'd finally gotten to a place where anything--a sunset, the curve of her thigh, the air I breathe--anything was enough with her.
- Maj. Miles Holmes: [Susan, in custody, is driven away] Didn't you ever love anyone so much that would have given up the world for? Did love ever make you crazy?
- Sarah MacKenzie: Once or twice.
- Maj. Miles Holmes: Not again? Well, maybe one day you'll get up the nerve to stop playing it safe and work without a net.