Confrontation Over a Horse in Cold Mountain
Inman:
Come down from there!
Bosie:
No sir- here's just fine.
Inman:
I'll just shoot the horse out from under you.
Bosie:
You ridin Captain Teague's animal?
Inman:
I am.
Bosie:
He dead?
Inman: [''Pause, both their horses walk along the mountainside'']
I hope so. Well, gimme your gun and ride on home! I'm done fightin'- I'm sick of it!
Bosie:
I give you my gun, you gonna shoot me dead!
Inman:
I will not shoot you- but nor am I goin down this mountain lookin over my shoulder for you.
Bosie: [''Pause'']
That's what they call a conundrum. I tell you what I got on my side.
Inman: [''They both stop their horses'']
What you got on your side?
Bosie: [''He draws his gun, he and Inman shoot each other'']
... The confidence of youth.
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The Interconnectedness of Nature's Roles
Maddy:
There's a design for each and every one of us. You look at nature. Bird flies somewhere, picks up a seed, shits the seed out, plant grows. Bird's got a job, shit's got a job, seed's got a job.
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Ruby questions Inman's romantic experiences.
Ruby Thewes: [''To Ada''; ''Ada hits her'']
So, you have never wrapped your legs around this Inman?
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Hope for Change Amidst War
Ruby Thewes:
This war won't stand long. God won't let it stand this way long.
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Critique of War's Consequences and Responsibility
Ruby Thewes:
Every piece of this is man's bullshit. They call this war a cloud over the land, but they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say, "Shit! Its rainin'!
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A Unique Perspective on Grief and Loss
Ruby Thewes:
If I cried one tear for my daddy I stole it off a crocodile!
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Disdain for a Flogging Rooster
Ruby Thewes:
I despise a flogging rooster.
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Ruby Thewes Offers Assistance to Old Lady Swanger
Ruby Thewes:
Old Lady Swanger says you need help. Here I am!
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The Heartbreak of a Name and Place
Inman:
She gave me a book. Ada Monroe. Man by the name of Bartram. Wrote about his travels. Sometimes just reading the name of a place near home - Sorell Cove, Bishop's Creek. Those places belonged to people before us, to the Cherokee - What did he call Cold Mountain? How can a name, not even a real name, break your heart? It's her...She's the place I'm heading. And I hardly know her. I hardly know her!
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A Struggle with Inner Ruin and Fear
Inman:
Maybe you can't see my face, but if you could see my inside, my whatever you want to call it, my spirit, that's the fear I have deeper than any gash on my neck. I think I'm ruined. They kept trying to put me in the ground, but I wasn't ready. But if I had goodness, I lost it. If I had anything tender in me I shot it dead.
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The Inevitability of Survival in Conflict
Inman:
I could be at killing for days, my feet against the feet of my enemy. And I always killed him. He never killed me.
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Eternal Love and Identity
Ada Monroe: [reading from [[Wuthering Heights]
]: My love for Linton is like the foliage in the wood. Time will change it I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath, a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nellie, I AM Heathcliff! He's always, always on my mind. Not as a pleasure any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as part of my own being.
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Struggling with Emotional Barriers and Vulnerability
Ada Monroe:
All this while I've been packing ice around my heart. How will I make it melt...?
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A Call for Return and Reflection
Ada Monroe:
If you are fighting, stop fighting. If you are marching, stop marching. Come back to me. Come back to me is my request.
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Journey of Discovery and Reflection
Ada Monroe:
To have traveled so far... From east to west, a thousand terrible miles; my feet treading all God's surface - his Ocean, his swamps, his slopes and ridges - to find myself at last a mark in the aching snow from whence I beheld through a blue haze a world of mountains piled upon mountains.
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