Ruby: [when Ada comes back with Inman] Congratulations. I'll send you out with a shot gun a lot more.
Inman: I came back for you.
Ruby: [to Ada] So, you have never wrapped your legs around this Inman?
[Ada hits her]
[Veasey finds a saw]
Veasey: Hey! Look at this! This is a good saw.
Inman: It's not yours. You take it, you make us another enemy. You are a Christian- don't you know your commandments?
Veasey: You'll find the good Lord very flexible on the subject of property. We could do a lot with this saw...
Ruby: I hope that Georgia boy's been seeing to the animals.
Ada: I thought you were thinking on him!
Ruby: I was not. I was thinking on swollen udders- and before you say same difference.
Ada: I'm not saying nothing!
Ruby: Miss lovey-dovey!
Ada: I will not leave Cold Mountain. My last thread of courage is to wait... for you.
Ada: When this war is over, there will be a reckoning.
Ada: Are you alive? I pray to God you are.
Ferrygirl: [to Inman and Veasey] Thirty more dollars, we can go to the cabin. I'll pull this dress over my head.
Veasey: [to Inman] Have we got thirty dollars?
Ada: I count the number of words that have passed between us, Inman and me - not very many. But I think about it.
Ada: If you saw us this Easter... you would know that every step of your journey is worth it.
Ada: Did you get a picture made?
Inman: Say again?
Ada: A tintype, with your gun and courage on display.
Inman: You're laughing at me.
Ada: I don't know you.
Inman: You're always carrying a tray.
Veasey: Used to be as regular as morning prayers. Matter of fact I could set my watch by my bowels. That beeswax you fed me, day before yesterday, it stops a man up. Open my gut now they'd find turds stacked up like little black twigs.
Sara: I'm alone here, as you can see, with my baby. I need to believe you mean no harm.
[Inman takes out his gun]
Inman: No, I mean to give it to you.
Sara: I don't want it. If I had my way they'd take metal altogether out of this world. Every blade, every gun.
Ruby: Have you been shot?
Inman: Not lately.
Ada: I would have followed you anywhere... to Mongolia.
Teague: He ain't coming back. You must know that in your heart. Look at me. I'm not nothing.
Ada: Ruby, this fence may be the first thing I ever did that might produce an actual result.
Bosie: By order of Zebulon Vance, Governor of this great state of North Carolina: any soldier turned deserter is guilty of treason and shall be hunted down like a dog. Any man takes in a deserter is likewise guilty of treason.
Inman: I'm wetter than a fish.
