Pete Morgan:
The truth shouldn't scare anybody, man or boy.
Nath Storm:
Look mom, why don't you close the store and marry Don Brent.
Nath Storm:
Sometimes it seems the more I know about women the less I know about women.
Nath Storm:
You do more than talk things over, you come back here a bride. We don't want any dead ducks in the family.
Pete Morgan:
Don't put such a high price on courage, it's an over-rated virtue.
Pete Morgan:
Sometimes we figure too much son, the wrong things. Things that can never be figured. Then it's bad, bad for everyone.
Pete Morgan:
There's a curse on those woods.
Nath Storm:
There's some connection between Pete's red house and whoever hit me.
Meg Mogan:
I thought Pete told you not to go in those woods.
Meg Mogan:
Ok, Sunday we'll go prowling.
Meg Mogan:
I found an old trail, maybe it leads somewhere.
Tibby Renton:
You're on my time now, or had you forgotten we had a date to go swimming this afternoon.
Nath Storm:
She's like an ornery heifer sometimes, hard to hold down.
Pete Morgan:
There's one thing you gotta do for me, stay outta those woods.
Pete Morgan:
You know when I was a young man and in love, Sunday was a good day for swooning.
Nath Storm:
I don't care what Pete said, I wish we were prowling in the woods today.
Tibby Renton:
I wanna clear out these hills when I get married.
Nath Storm:
Since when?
Tibby Renton:
Since now.
Nath Storm:
I like the ground around here and I'd just as soon keep my feet on it.
Ellen Morgan:
Do you think there's a man on earth without something to conceal.
Nath Storm:
Go and stick your head under a faucet and cool off Tibby.
Ellen Morgan:
Meg needs to be with young people like Nath. You can't condemn her to loneliness.
Pete Morgan:
Whatever happines I get I've got to find while I live.
Ellen Morgan:
You can get happiness by giving it.
Pete Morgan:
As long as the Red House stands in the quarry my whole life is Meg's and her whole life is mine.
Nath Storm:
She's sleeping awfully sound... she's dead.
Tibby Renton:
Hi, what you got on your mind... me?
Teller:
I couldn't get you otta my mind baby.
Tibby Renton:
That's the way I was made too.
Meg Mogan:
She hurt bad?
Nath Storm:
She's dead.
Pete Morgan:
You defied the woods and you were hurt. She defied them, and now she's dead.
Pete Morgan:
Everything I love... dies.
Meg Mogan:
Then you did kill her?
Pete Morgan:
No, it was an accident, I was just trying to keep her quiet.
Pete Morgan:
I picked up the whip and beat him till he wasn't handsome anymore, till he was dead, finished.
Pete Morgan:
Stop that crying, stop it!
Nath Storm:
I thought I better finish what Ellen set out to do sweetheart. I set fire to the red house. Looking forwards is much better than looking back.
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