1. "I never said anything more. It doesn't do any good. I've found that when a man gets into a rut the best thing you can do is let him stay there. And when a man gets it in his head that he's got to tell something on your for your own good, goodnight."

2. "Your account closed at 20.62. And if that wasn't enough, paying ten dollars a month to somebody to tell you how to lose it fast, that either dont know anything about it or is in cahoots with the telegraph company. Well, I'm done with them. They've sucked me in for the last time."

3. In reference to Ms. Quentin: "Like I say blood always tells. If you've got blood like that in you, you'll do anything."

4. "Only I still couldn't believe she'd have had the nerve to. I kept thinking that. I dont know why it is I cant seem to learn that a woman'll do anything. I kept thinking, Let's forget for a while how I felt toward you and how you felt toward me: I just wouldn't do you this way. I wouldn't do you this way no matter what you had done to me."

5. "'I wanted you and she to get along with one another,' she says. 'But she has inherited all of the headstrong traits. Quentin's too.'"