- Emily West: I'm burning alive in the fire of my own rage. I don't live, I survive; I exist.
- Sam Houston: [to Deaf, who isn't reading his lips. He is carving something] I'll tell you this. The most precious moment that can ever come in this world is when a woman loves a man just as he is. That's it in a nutshell.
- [Smiles when he looks at his friend, sees that he wasn't looking at him and therefore doesn't know what he just said]
- Sam Houston: Good thing about talking to you, Deaf, is I can tell you anything.
- [Just then, Deaf looks up at him, winks, then tosses him something: a heart he had carved]