- Jennings: Smell 'em. Even from here. They stink. Bunch of mangy dogs.
- Simon Blake: They look half-starved and that's for sure.
- Simon Blake: Yellow Sun looks like a man who knows where he's going.
- Rowdy Yates: Meaning what?
- Simon Blake: Meaning you and him be running the same trail. But at different places.
- Rowdy Yates: Look, right now I need him, Simon. If the Devil himself walked into this camp and asked to ride drag, I'd shake his hand and put him on a horse.
- Jacob Yellow-Sun: I'm to take your place, Quadero.
- Quadero: Maybe it is the other way 'round, Yellow-Sun.
- Jacob Yellow-Sun: You think this the time and the place.
- Quadero: I look at Yellow-Sun and I see a man whose skin is as white as the man he says he hates. I know what is in Yellow-Sun's face. But I do not know what is in his heart.
- Simon Blake: What I meant about the breed
- [he means the Chief]
- Simon Blake: was, he's part white, part Indian, and part nothing.
- Wishbone: Now, I didn't go looking for trouble.
- Rowdy Yates: I know that.
- Wishbone: Well, then you know trouble comes looking for a man sometimes. Another thing you oughta know is that Chiricahua would far rather you cut off both ears than to have you shame him like you did.
- Rowdy Yates: That's right. That's why I did it my way.
- Jacob Yellow-Sun: From time I am two years old, I think my name is Indian Brat, is all I hear. So I come to live with Chiricahua where I am man.
- Jacob Yellow-Sun: Who is it here that questions my right to lead? When the time comes for you to know I will tell you my plan. Not before.
- Jacob Yellow-Sun: I remember now. Trick of seeming to hit with the left hand, you hit with the right. I remember from Mission School. I remember much.
- Simon Blake: Mr Yates, this might be as close to a miracle as our little group of sinners is liable to come to.