- Marion Curtis: What is the reason for his death? There isn't any reason, any sense. A man breaks into our house and steals some food. Did he have to steal my father's life too? Why?
- Wishbone: Load up the wagons! Unload the wagons! Hitch up the team! Unhitch the team! Someday, somebody around here's gonna make up his rockheaded mind!
- Marion Curtis: When I meet someone I always wonder what they look like. Mr Favor, for instance, is he a big man who takes long strides when he walks?
- Frank Trask: That's pretty close.
- Marion Curtis: Let's see, who else? Mr Wishbone, is he short and fat and bald?
- Frank Trask: Most of his hair has shrunk down to his chin.
- Hey Soos: I remember a creature once telling me that every year you live is like a chapter of a book. You're just turning a new page, that's all. And crying about the yesterdays don't make the tomorrows any better. You learn to live with that and you learn to learn with just about anything. Even yourself.
- Gil Favor: What was all that about?
- Rowdy Yates: I don't know. Started out all kinda friendly. And Quince mentioned something about his scar. And Trass went off like a lump of black powder.
- Joe Scarlet: Make that a wagonload of powder. Feel like I just took on a locomotive.