- Gil Favor: It's getting darn right nippy. An hour ago it was like summer. All of a sudden it's like December.
- Pete Nolan: That's just the beginning.
- Gil Favor: I've come into a lot of dust storms before, nothing this cold.
- Pete Nolan: I really don't know what they call them up here in Kansas. Down home, it would be a Texas Northener.
- Dr. Gardner: Veterans' Hospital at Clay City, 6 miles out of Clay City. End of nowhere.
- Gil Favor: How come they built it way out there?
- Dr. Gardner: Easier to forget.
- Dr. Gardner: The war's been over for you since '65. Whatever may have happened to you in it, you've probably forgotten by now.
- Gil Favor: A man doesn't forget a war that easy.
- Wishbone: Let him come to you for the pills. Nothing, only that, if he happens to forget, I'll find him and mighty well cram 'em down his throat.
- Gil Favor: No, Wish. Let him come to you for the pills. If he skips one, fine. Two, even better. The day he doesn't take any, you come tell me.
- Wishbone: How's he gonna get cured of what ails him if he don't take his medicine?
- Gil Favor: It's the medicine that ails him.
- Craig Kern: Miss Powell, she's a pretty girl, ain't she.
- Jason Adams: Yeah, she sure is.
- Craig Kern: I was supposed to marry her. You notice the way Bill Rudd has been looking at her?
- Jason Adams: She's your girl. He ain't got no right.
- Craig Kern: Nah, as long as I have to take these pills, I can't marry anybody. That's why I'm cutting down.
- Gil Favor: I told you to hold onto your medicine yourself.
- Craig Kern: Jason is a good boy.
- Gil Favor: That's no reason to put the responsibility on him.
- Craig Kern: He don't mind that either. I just killed him.
- Dr. Gardner: An alkaloid, a juice derived from a poppy seed. A few different names for it, all of them based on the fact that the god of sleep in Ancient Greece was Morpheus, so they called it Morphia, or morphinum. Well, the name doesn't matter. The effect it has on certain patients does. They can't get along without this medicine.