- [to a bounty hunter who signs his receipt with an "X"]
- Sheriff: When are you gonna learn writin'? You might not look smarter, but you'll feel smarter.
- Wes: Sheriff!
- Sheriff: Yessir.
- [indicates a wanted poster depicting hooded bandits]
- Wes: Who are they?
- Sheriff: Not much to know about them 'cept for their hoods. They've been robbing banks all across the state of Texas since the war.
- Wes: Well, they hit Twin Forks a couple days back.
- Jack: Yeah, Sam Sheppard's dead, Ben.
- Wes: They killed him and his whole posse.
- Sheriff: [grimacing] Damn! They're good.
- Wes: I figure if they ain't here yet, they're comin'.
- Sheriff: You boys got any good news for me?
- Billy: Well, hell, Sheriff - we're here!
- Hannah: You're not mad at me for killin' you pa. You're not even mad for robbing those banks or butchering that posse. You're mad because you don't care any more. I made you love me.
- Jack: So, Wes... do you think there's any chance in hell she's gonna let you take her in?
- Syl: Well, she coulda killed him... She didn't.
- Jack: If I go after her again, she's gonna have to kill me.
- Syl: Well then, why go after her?
- Wes: I gotta see this thing through. How we end it's up to her. You don't have to come along, Syl... Any of ya.
- Syl: No, I'm comin'. I have to.
- Jack: Me?
- Wes: Yeah.
- Jack: Well, I had to kill a fifteen-year-old girl. Even if I never understand why I had to do that, I still got to look her mother in the eye.
- Wes: Billy?
- Billy: They're outlaws... no different from Packer and his crowd. Hell, we went after them for a lot less reason.
- Wes: All right then.
- Hannah: [to Wes] You feel bad about Silver Creek? I'll tell you about Silver Creek, I was there, so was Ellie and the Widow. I had a son, did you know that? He was four years old, four years old and they gunned him down in the streets like a dog. And your militia, your precious gorillas all six of them they beat the shit out of us and raped us until we bled, and this
- [shows the scars on her back]
- Hannah: this is war, Captain, and it doesn't stop just because some general says so.
- Hannah: [points to her head] You can't be raped up here. Nothing can get to you up here unless you let it.
- The Widow: Hannah, I've been raped too... but when I make love, I *make love*.
- Hannah: I can make love too,
- [to Ellie]
- Hannah: can't I sweetheart? I can make people love me.
- [kisses Ellie]
- The Widow: Yeah, I'm sure you can.
- The Widow: I guess I ain't gonna let you kill him. Been enough killings.
- Ellie: It's a little late to go self-righteous on us, Widow, you've done your fair share! And so did that precious daughter of yours!
- The Widow: [hits Ellie in the mouth with her gun and knocks her down] I KNOW what I have done, and whatever Janie did or didn't do, that will be on MY conscience, NOT HERS! And your little stunt at the bank, that KILLED Janie!
- Ellie: So what?
- [Widow cocks her gun]
- Jack: [after sex with Widow] My heart, my heart... Your first husband died of his ulcer, right?
- The Widow: First husband? No, I ain't ever been married.
- Jack: How's that possible?
- The Widow: I guess cuz I slaved away for the same old bitch since I was 5, The Widow Wilson. Widow Wilson's me, but no, I ain't ever had no real name.
- Jack: What about Janie?
- The Widow: Janie? Widow had a brother. Janie's a sweetheart, she deserves better than this... aw well, who doesn't?
- Hannah: [takes off the general's badge] All this, for glory? You want a war? I'll give you a war.
- [shoots him]
- Ellie: They followed us here!
- Hannah: What do you mean? Who followed us here?
- Ellie: Your stinking cowhands are slate for the Twin Forks posse what I mean. The whole damn town's mounting off about it.
- Hannah: Did Jack say anything to you?
- The Widow: Well we ain't exactly talk much.
- Ellie: [laughs] Well that's just beautiful.
- Hannah: So they followed us here, so what?
- Hannah: [at Silver Creek] Every single thing in this town is dead. We just ain't laid ourselves out yet.
- Hannah: Might be nice, mightn't it? Stop, get a home, one with walls I mean, and a man.
- Ellie: Don't, you're scaring me.
- [Widow laughs]
- Hannah: It's only a dream, Ellie, only a dream.
- The Widow: Is it? Hell, ain't never too late.
- Hannah: Oh yeah, what're we going to do? Earn fees and grub on some God-forsaken prairie for 14 hours a day so we can all get pregnant a dozen times and die, that what you want to do? I didn't think so.
- Ellie: Where the hell have you been? Who is he?
- Hannah: [laughs] You're jealous.
- Ellie: I am not, who is he?
- Hannah: He is nobody.
- Ellie: Swear?
- Hannah: I swear, bit a fun, that's all Ellie.
- Ellie: You swear?
- Hannah: I swear, sweetheart.
- Ellie: You wouldn't lie to me!
- Hannah: I wouldn't lie to you.
- Ellie: I wouldn't like you to lie to me! I can smell him!
- Hannah: Don't be silly.
- Ellie: Don't leave me, Hannah, please, don't ever leave me.
- Hannah: I'll never leave you, Ellie, where would I go?
- Ellie: We should take the bank and get the hell out of here.
- The Widow: You know Hannah, for once she's right. It's all gonna close in on us.
- Hannah: No, it's too risky.
- The Widow: Yeah well we don't got many choices, sooner or later we gotta stop, might as well have some money in our pockets.
- Hannah: Stop and do what?
- The Widow: It don't matter what we do, we keep on like this, somebody's going to figure out who we are.