- Martha Grant: Tell me, Mom, when are we going to eat?
- Dolly Grant: Later.
- Martha Grant: Later, always later.
- Dolly Grant: When you only eat once a day, you gotta eat later.
- Adam Grant: Are you gonna give that money back? Hear me?
- Dolly Grant: Why? That money burning a hole in your soul, Adam?
- Adam Grant: You had no right in taking it.
- Dolly Grant: I took it because we need it. Because without it, I don't know how we're going to eat tomorrow.
- Adam Grant: How can you eat with it? Ain't you got no pride?
- Dolly Grant: Pride? Oh, Adam, it's the time of the buzzards and we're being ground into the dust.
- Dolly Grant: Mr Favor. How do you like it?
- Gil Favor: I'd be eight kinds of a liar if I said I didn't like it.
- Dolly Grant: Oh, Adam, I learnt a long time ago, pride, respect, all those fine words, they never got me a drink of water when I wanted it. Adam, stop thinking about yourself.
- Dolly Grant: You know, I used to dream of pretty sunsets, and, oh, of all the pretty things in the world. Except now I realise you've gotta have a full belly to for it.
- Gil Favor: You think you're the only one with a big stake in this. What about my men? Me, I've got my life on the line.
- Cal: That wasn't our fault.
- Gil Favor: Look, you got a hundred vultures in this town, hungry enough to eat a man alive, dogging his footsteps every step of the way. Something snaps, anything could happen. Don't tell me how much you got rinding out there.
- Adam Grant: I'll kill you before you married him.
- Dolly Grant: Then kill Martha and Jim too, Adam. Because without me, there's no one to fend for them. Is that what you want?
- Adam Grant: I just want you to act like you felt something for my father so his marrying you wasn't like hitching up with a cheap woman. Which is what you are, isn't it, all the way through. Cheap, cheap, cheap.
- Dolly Grant: [She slaps his face hard] When your father married me, he made you my son.
- Adam Grant: Well, he's dead now and I ain't your son any more.
- Dolly Grant: Well, the kids are mine. Anything I do, I do for them.
- Adam Grant: I'll take care of the kids.
- Dolly Grant: And if you're dead? Don't kill the one man who's going to take care of us for the rest of our lives.
- Gil Favor: Don't tell me what I can and can't do. Butt out of my business, will ya
- [Rowdy brushes the split coffee from his shirt]
- Dolly Grant: Look, enough food to choke a cow. And we'll get some meat on those bones... And tomorrow you're gonna have supper with us, Mr Favor. Ah, ah, no ifs. Look what I got ya. For you.
- Jim Grant: Gee willikers, Ma.
- Dolly Grant: Here.
- Martha Grant: Ma, what a beautiful dress.
- Dolly Grant: Well, you can thank Mr Favor. He's playing Santa Claus today.
- Wishbone: Don't let her age and size fool you. From what I see she can take care of herself. And you too.
- Gil Favor: Spit it out. What're trying to say?
- Wishbone: You're walking into a trap a mile wide.
- Gil Favor: I know what I'm doing.
- Rowdy Yates: Mm. Do yah?
- Gil Favor: You act like I was gonna go out and marry this kid or something.
- Rowdy Yates: I didn't say that word.
- Gil Favor: What's wrong with the word antway?
- Rowdy Yates: You can't take over from that man.
- Gil Favor: I'm not trying to take over for nobody.
- Rowdy Yates: It was an accident. You can't strap yourself to this for the rest of your life.