Tom Booker:
Somestimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater.
Tom Booker:
I didn't know that it was right to love her. I just loved her.
Grace:
Are you afraid of anything, Tom Booker?
Tom Booker:
Of growing old. Being of no use.
[
Upon having her leg amputated]
Grace:
Who's going to want me now?
Annie:
I've heard you help people with horse problems.
Tom Booker:
Truth is, I help horses with people problems.
Tom Booker:
Knowing is the easy part; saying it out loud is the hard part.
Robert:
How are you doing out there in Marlboro country?
Tom Booker:
There was a boy from the Blackfeet reservation, he used to do some work around here for a while. Sixteen, strong kid, good kid. He and I were really, really good friends. One day he went swimming and dove headfirst into the lake... and right into a rock. And it snapped his neck, paralyzed him. And after the accident I'd look in on him from time to time. But he wasn't there. It was like his mind, his spirit, whatever you want to call it, just disappeared. The only thing left was just anger. Just sort of as if the... the boy I once knew just went somewhere else.
Grace:
I know where he goes.
Tom Booker:
I know you do. Don't you disappear.
[
Tom walks up to Annie with two horses]
Annie:
The answer is 'no'.
Tom Booker:
I haven't even asked you the question yet!
Robert:
Judith's dead.
Annie:
And what about Grace?
Robert:
She's in pretty bad shape.
[
first lines]
Judith:
[
waves] Hello!
Grace:
[
waves] Hello!
Annie:
I haven't ridden Western before.
Tom Booker:
Yeah. But he doesn't know that. Just sit the horse.
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