-Was there something in particular you wished to say to me?
-Not that comes to me, I'll say thank you,,, for the cider,

- Were you never planning to come inside?
- I'm wetter than a fish,
- There's a good fire going,
- I'm all right,
 (Ada sighs)
-You're always carrying a tray,
- I was going to take some root beer over to the Negroes,
- Somebody said you were enlisting, Are you?
- If there is a war, we'll all fight,
- Did you get a picture made?
- Say again?
- A tintype, with your musket and your courage on display,
- You're laughin' at me,
- I don't know you,
- This doesn't come out right,If it were enough just to stand,without the words...
- It is,It is,
- You... Look,Look, Look at the sky now,What color is it? Or the way,,, a hawk flies?
  Or you wake up...and your ribs are bruised thinking so hard on somebody,
  What do you call that?..
  ....I'll do that,I can't get much wetter,


(Ada)    "What if you are killed,and I'll never see you again?"
            "You said after a few years I would barely remember your name."
            "Oh, lnman.It is more than three years,and I remember your name. "

- You might be safer back in Charleston,
- But then who'll be waiting for you?

(Ada)   "Dear Mr, lnman,,,Since you've left, 
              time has been measured out in bitter chapters.
              Last fall, my poor father died.
             Our farm at Black Cove is abandoned.
             Every house in these mountains touched by tragedy.
             Each day the dread...of learning who has fallen...
             who will not return from this terrible war.
             And no word from you.
             Are you alive?
             l pray to God you are.
             This war is lost on the battlefield.
             and is being lost twice over by those who stayed behind. 
             I'm still waiting,as I promised I would.
             But I find myself alone and at the end of my wits...
             too embarrassed to keep taking from those who can least afford to give. 
             My last thread of courage now is to put my faith in you...
             and to believe I will see you again.
             So now I say to you, plain as I can...
             if you are fighting, stop fighting.
             lf you are marching, stop marching.
             Come back to me,
             Come back to me is my request.."

(Ada) "Yesterday,I saw you walkin' back to me...or thought I did.
            l found myself crouching over Sally Swanger's well...
           ... Iike a madwoman staring into its secrets.
           Was it you I saw walking home to me,
           or was it your ghost?
           After so long, 
           I know I must learn to survive on my own and accept you will not return.
           And yet I cannot. I cannot. "

- I could be at killin',,,for days,
  my feet against the feet of my enemy,And I always killed him, 
  He never killed me,I don't know why,
- Gave it a try, to look at ya,
- Yeah, I guess he did,
- See, I think there's a plan,There's a design for each and every one of us,
  You look at nature,
  Bird flies somewhere, picks up a seed,shits the seed out, plant grows,
  Bird's got a job,shit's got a job, seed's got a job,
  And you've got a job,

"Sometimes,,,just readin' the name of a place,,,
near home,,,Sorell Cove,Bishop's Creek,
Those places belonged to people before us,
To the Cherokee,
What did he call Cold Mountain?
How could a name,,,not even a real name,,,break your heart?
It's her,She's the place I'm headin',
And I hardly know her,I hardly know her!
And I just can't seem to get back to her."

 "To have traveled so far,from east to west,a thousand terrible miles. "
My feet treadin' all God's surface ..
his ocean, his swamps,his slopes and ridges -to find myself, at last,
a mark in the aching snow,from whence I beheld through a blue haze
a world of mountains piled upon mountains,"

"My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods.
Time will change it, I'm well aware,as winter changes the trees.
My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath.
A source of little visible delight,but necessary,
He's always,,,always in my mind,"

(Ada) "My love, where are you?
"With no hope of reaching you,
I write to you,as I always do,as I have always done. "

-  I'm sorry,I was tryin' to be quiet,
-  Did you get my letters?
-  I got three letters,I carried them,
   I carried them in the book you gave me,The Bartram,
-  I probably sent 1 03,Did you write to me?
-  Whenever I could,If you never got them, I can summarize,
-  No, No, no,
- "l pray you are well,l pray I am in your thoughts,
    you are all that keeps me from slidin' into some dark place.
-   How did I keep you?
    We barely knew each other,It was a few moments,
-  A thousand moments,
   They're like a bag,,,of tiny diamonds,
    Don't matter if they're real or things I made up,
   The shape of your neck,That's real,
   The way you felt under my hands when I pulled you to me,
-  You were plowing a field,
-  You were carrying a tray,
-  You wouldn't come in,
-  No, I wouldn't go in,
-  So that's why I had to carry a tray,
   So I could come out to see you,
-  That kiss, Which I kissed every day of my walking,
-  Every day I was waiting,
   Longing, Longing to see your face,
-  If you could see my inside,,,Now, whatever you wanna name it -
   my spirit? That's what I fear,I think I'm ruined,
  They kept tryin' to put me in the ground,But I wasn't ready,
-  lnman,,,
-  But if I had,,, if I had goodness,I lost it,
   If I had anything tender in me,I shot it dead,
  How could I write to you after what I done,what I seen?

-   Isn't there some religion where you just have to say "l marry you" three times,and you're man and wife?
-   I marry you,
    I marry you,
    I marry you,
-  Why is that funny?
    I think it's "l divorce you" three times and you're not married anymore,
-  I can wait for you,
-  Oh, lnman,
    I marry you, I marry you, 
    I marry you,I marry you, I marry you,