15 quotes
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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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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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
I hope so. Well, gimme your gun and ride on home! I'm done fightin'- I'm sick of it!
[''Pause, both their horses walk along the mountainside'']
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
That's what they call a conundrum. I tell you what I got on my side.
[''Pause'']
Inman
What you got on your side?
[''They both stop their horses'']
Bosie
... The confidence of youth.
[''He draws his gun, he and Inman shoot each other'']
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Ruby questions Inman's romantic experiences.
Ruby Thewes
So, you have never wrapped your legs around this Inman?
[''To Ada''; ''Ada hits her'']
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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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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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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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Eternal Love and Identity
Ada Monroe
]: 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.
[reading from [[Wuthering Heights]
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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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Disdain for a Flogging Rooster
Ruby Thewes
I despise a flogging rooster.
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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 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 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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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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Ruby Thewes Offers Assistance to Old Lady Swanger
Ruby Thewes
Old Lady Swanger says you need help. Here I am!
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