- Andy Zachary: What did he want, Ben?
- Ben Zachary: He wanted to buy a woman.
- [looks at Rachel]
- Ben Zachary: You.
- Rachel Zachary: Well, did you sell me?
- Ben Zachary: I held out for more horses.
- Rachel Zachary: Why would they want to buy me?
- Mattilda Zachary: Because you're a girl, my pretty. Horses and women are all the same to a Kiowa - to be bought or traded.
- Cash Zachary: I left my family!
- Georgia Rawlins: Why?
- Cash Zachary: They turned. Indian lovers! Injun lovers! I can't stay there no more! I can't stay there no more. I'm - a little bit drunk, Georgia.
- Georgia Rawlins: You can sleep it off in there. Or there's a bed in my room, if you'll marry me.
- Cash Zachary: I'm drunk, but I ain't that drunk!
- Lost Bird: I come in peace.
- Ben Zachary: My land. My sky. You are welcome.
- Lost Bird: Young horses. Good for - fighting. Good for - hunting. You take.
- Ben Zachary: I am ashamed. I have nothing as good to give you in return.
- Lost Bird: You have. In your house. Woman. One of *our* woman.
- Ben Zachary: Who told you this?
- Lost Bird: Man - of your tribe. Old man. Carry long knife.
- Ben Zachary: Him crazy.
- Lost Bird: Crazy man. Sun - speak through him. Dead people - speak through mouth. He speak - woman, my sister. I - her brother.
- Ben Zachary: He lies!
- Lost Bird: How - much - woman - worth?
- Ben Zachary: There are not enough horses to pay for her. Not all you can own or all you can steal!
- [Ma Zachary has finally admitted to the family that Rachel really is a Kiowa]
- Mattilda Zachary: Your Papa brought me the little girl child. He put her in my arms as I lay cryin'. I'd just lost my own little girl baby with yellow curls. Not old enough to be named when she died. So I gave her promised name to Rachel. My ownest Rachel. My beautiful little Indian baby. My breasts were hurting with all that milk.
- [the Zachary's are trapped inside the house]
- Andy Zachary: The only thing I hate is I never got to go to Wichita and have me...
- [pauses and looks at Ma]
- Andy Zachary: ...that glass of beer.
- Cash Zachary: [as the family is trying to act normally while three Indians are waiting outside] Hellfire, Ben, there's only three of them. We can kill them before breakfast.
- Rachel Zachary: I got a big choice in this country, Ben. I could marry that handsome, winsome Charlie - or that baby, Jude. I could even marry you!
- Ben Zachary: Watch your language, girl!
- Rachel Zachary: Well, why not? We're not cousins. We're not even relatives.
- Ben Zachary: We're not even friends.
- Ben Zachary: Why don't you say it, Cash? Damn you! Why don't you say it? It's not the Kiowas or the cattle! It's the red Injun in the house!
- Cash Zachary: Get her out of here! I don't care how you do it, get her out of here, I'm telling you!
- Ben Zachary: I'm stayin', Cash. She's stayin'. We're all stayin'.
- Cash Zachary: I'm not stayin'. Not with a red-hide nigger!
- [first lines]
- [yelling at a cow eating grass growing on the Zachary family's roof]
- Rachel Zachary: Shoo now! Shoo! Ain't you got no better manners than to eat at the top of a house?
- Cash Zachary: When the wind's in the right direction, I can smell Injun a mile off.
- Ben Zachary: Well, I hate to disappoint you, but that smell is comin' off of me. I haven't changed my dirt since Wichita, Kansas.
- [the Zacharys are discussing the rumors about Rachel]
- Cash Zachary: It's out there, Ben. It's layin' on their stomachs and they don't know what to do.
- Ben Zachary: Well, it's still a lie and we've got nothin' to be ashamed of.
- Cash Zachary: What are we goin' to do when one of them says it? What are we goin' to do when one of them says it to Rachel?
- Ben Zachary: Kill 'em, I guess.
- Cash Zachary: That's all I wanted to hear.
- [Charlie Rawlins has asked Ben for permission to marry Rachel]
- Rachel Zachary: Well, Ben, you ain't goin' to shoot Charlie now are you?
- Ben Zachary: I'm thinkin' about it. If I wasn't so short-handed I might.
- [walks away]
- Rachel Zachary: Aren't you going to kiss me?
- Charlie Rawlins: Ain't he kind of close?
- Rachel Zachary: You're going to kiss me, not him.
- [Cash advocates killing the Kiowa outside of the house]
- Ben Zachary: All right, Cash. Let's first make sure they're after our scalps. I'm gonna waste one.
- [shoots the top of one Indian's lance, Kiowas don't move]
- Rachel Zachary: They don't scare for nothing, do they?
- Andy Zachary: Medicine! They think they've got bulletproof medicine, Ben.
- Ben Zachary: I'm going to parley. Don't shoot unless you have to.
- Cash Zachary: When is that?
- Ben Zachary: When they break the peace and kill me.
- Abe Kelsey: I am the sword of God, the fire, and the vengeance; whereby the wrong shall be righted and the truth be told.
- Ben Zachary: Abe Kelsey rode vengeance on us till the people in each town turned against us. Till my Papa was killed by a Kiowa lance!
- Abe Kelsey: And that old man made you run. That poor old man chased you from town to town. That poor old man with his lies. No. You run from the truth.
- Hagar Rawlins: Don't touch me. Don't touch me! And get out of this house! Dirty Injun, with your Injun ways. Ain't you done enough?
- Rachel Zachary: Miss Rawlins?
- Hagar Rawlins: Wound yourself around my son Charlie to get yourself a litter of half-breeds - to run around my Charlie's cabin! Squaw! Kiowa squaw! Red nigger as ever was!
- Mattilda Zachary: Prairie fever.
- Rachel Zachary: What's that?
- Mattilda Zachary: Worst thing you can get. Loneliness. I was touched by it myself, once or twice.
- Abe Kelsey: You can't kill me! The God of vengeance will blind your eye. Death for death, and blood for blood.
- Mattilda Zachary: Just what did he look like, Rachel?
- Rachel Zachary: Like something blown in by the wind.
- Andy Zachary: Ben promised to take me along to Wichita and show me how to live.
- Cash Zachary: You got a far piece to go. You ain't even shaved yet!
- Andy Zachary: Ben says they have girls there which only have first names!
- Rachel Zachary: Ben.
- Ben Zachary: Rachel.
- Rachel Zachary: Ben! Ben! Oh, Ben! Oh, I'm so happy to see you! Oh, Ben! Oh, Ben!
- Cash Zachary: Fine looking bunch of riders.
- Ben Zachary: Why not? I handpicked them.
- Cash Zachary: Off the barroom floor.
- Ben Zachary: They're sober now.
- Andy Zachary: How you doing, Ben?
- Ben Zachary: Pretty good, brother.
- Cash Zachary: I don't know about the pretty part, but you didn't go to Wichita to be good.
- Ben Zachary: What makes you so happy, Mama?
- Mattilda Zachary: Because you ain't sick or dead or scalped or something worse!
- Ben Zachary: Nothing could kill me, except lightning out of the sky. And then it'd have to hit twice.
- Rachel Zachary: Cash, you old stickleback, you know you love Georgia.
- Cash Zachary: Do I?
- Georgia Rawlins: He don't.
- Cash Zachary: Don't I?
- Zeb Rawlins: What sayeth the Lord? The Lord sayeth, "Be fruitful and multiply!"
- Hagar Rawlins: Multiply. We old folks, we done all the multiplyin' we can.
- Mattilda Zachary: I've seen a hundred if I've seen one. They all look alike to me. Lonely. Well, they're lonely men ridin' all over this country. Buffalo hunters, only the buff is gone. I feel sorry for them.
- Zeb Rawlins: Only an Injun would be crazy enough to steal that horse.
- Andy Zachary: Just like Zeb's sayin', Ben. I think it's Injun work. It's Injun work, all right. They done it.
- Ben Zachary: Maybe.
- Johnny Portugal: Easy, girl, easy. Ain't you the prettiest devil I ever did see? I'm going to ride you now. Easy and slow. It ain't going to hurt much. Not after the first time, anyway.
- Rachel Zachary: Are you mad at me for sashaying around?
- Ben Zachary: When I get you home, I'm gonna whup you.
- Mattilda Zachary: Kiowas are like panthers! Always sneakin' about when you can't see them.
- Rachel Zachary: That one in the white buckskin, I'll never forget him. He was beautiful!
- Mattilda Zachary: A Kiowa? You're daft, child!
- Ben Zachary: Wake up, Cash. We got company.
- Andy Zachary: What is it? What is it, Ben?
- Cash Zachary: Kiowas! Dirty, stinkin' Kiowas.
- Andy Zachary: What do they want, Ben?
- Ben Zachary: I don't know. But we'd better fort up.
- Rachel Zachary: Ben, if you met me in Wichita - and had never seen me before, would you take after me, hat in hand, mouth open, drunk or sober?
- Rachel Zachary: Ben, I saw blue butterflies down by the creek this morning. About a million of them. They were flying in twos, like sweethearts with four wings apiece. That ain't a ladylike thing to say, is it?
- Ben Zachary: Hang on to these days, Rachel. Don't grow up too fast.
- Mattilda Zachary: Give me some.
- Cash Zachary: Now that's Wichita whiskey, Mama. It's been aged about four minutes and that ain't long enough to cure whatever they put in it.
- Mattilda Zachary: I know it, but I need it.
- Cash Zachary: So do I.
- Charlie Rawlins: I come to ask the question. Hoping she'll say yes, and if she don't, I ain't coming back here no more. I'm gonna leave home, go to San Francisco, get a job on the first vessel I see. Maybe go to China. I ain't thought that far ahead yet.
- Ben Zachary: There's going to be the biggest, noisiest, most devilish, glorious, drinking and dancing wedding ever celebrated in this godforsaken part of the world!
- Zeb Rawlins: [to Rachel] We're gonna have to look at your body.
- Mattilda Zachary: You leave her be!
- Hagar Rawlins: Strip her down! Strip her down naked!
- Zeb Rawlins: Let the women take her in the house and undress her.
- Abe Kelsey: You think you got a horse thief here. You ain't. That horse I took from an Injun girl. A red-hide Injun. And you can't do a man hurt for that, now can you?