- Catherine Knowland: Well, there's always the chance that Prince Charming may come riding down off the mountain someday.
- Pedro, the Bartender: Any luck, Señor Mitchell?
- Rian X. Mitchell: Yes, all of it bad.
- Pedro, the Bartender: Perhaps you would like a drink, off the house?
- Vic Leonard: Tell me, do you look for the mountain first, then the girl? Or the girl, then the mountain? I just thought I'd ask. You know they always seem to go together, like the chicken and the egg.
- Rian X. Mitchell: She's a blonde vision of loveliness. Yeah. She'll be waiting on the dock, just where I left her. Makes all the others look like lampshades.
- Vic Leonard: There are only two places in the world you can find emeralds, Colombia and Siberia. One of those is a closed corporation.
- Rian X. Mitchell: Hi there. You're late.
- Catherine Knowland: I'm sorry, I was trying to arrange for a red carpet and a brass band.
- Rian X. Mitchell: Look, what kind of a doctor do you call yourself? You haven't even inquired about my side.
- Catherine Knowland: Well, I assumed you'd be bright enough to stay off bumpy roads. Forgive me, how is your side?
- Rian X. Mitchell: Well, I think it's going to need a lot of attention.
- Rian X. Mitchell: You two seem to be getting along.
- Vic Leonard: Splendidly.
- Catherine Knowland: You didn't tell me how charming your partner was.
- Rian X. Mitchell: I never noticed.
- Catherine Knowland: [Following her first kiss with Rian] I take it, you must be the expert on the romantic movement in South America.
- Rian X. Mitchell: Donald tells me you're going to Bogata.
- Catherine Knowland: Only for two weeks.
- Rian X. Mitchell: To see anybody in particular?
- Catherine Knowland: Of course, a coffee broker. Age seventy-three.
- Rian X. Mitchell: Seventy-three? A wonderful time of life.
- Catherine Knowland: Now, don't tell me you were jealous?
- Rian X. Mitchell: Homocidally.
- Rian X. Mitchell: Oh Cathy, stop thinking like a woman! You're fighting a losing battle down there. Why try and hang on there when the rainbow's up here?
- Catherine Knowland: You're right, Rian. I was thinking like a woman. I was thinking of my Grandfather and how he hacked a plantation out of the wilderness. And my father who made it his life. And all that's gone into it: love and feeling and pride. Things you wouldn't know about. Things you can't buy with your emeralds!
- Father Ripero: Cathy, you cannot do this thing.
- Catherine Knowland: I'm sorry, Father, but, this is one fight I can't win by turning the other cheek.
- Father Ripero: If you destroy the mountain, you will be destroying yourself, as well.