- Margaret Blackledge: I know what I've lost.
- George Blackledge: Sometimes that's all life is, Margaret. The list of what we've lost.
- Peter Dragswolf: [on before entering Indian School] They doused me with kerosene and beat me, I think they were trying to kill the Indian in me
- George Blackledge: And when you finally learn that what you want to make happen isn't gonna happen, what then, Margaret Meloy?
- Margaret Blackledge: Well, then I suppose I'll learn what I've never been able to. Isn't that what you've always told me? Over and over. That I don't know when it's time to call it quits.
- George Blackledge: And I'll be the one gets the job of picking up those pieces, huh?