- Jason McCord: Now use it! You live with the memory of it. Let the nightmare of it tear you apart for the rest of your life. You see if it sets things right with you.
- Sam Manning: You heard? You heard what he said?
- Adam Manning: I heard.
- Sam Manning: What are you going to do?
- Adam Manning: What you'd do if you could.
- Sam Manning: Well, he's too much for you. You can't handle him.
- Adam Manning: You're wrong, Pa. I'm gonna measure up better than Tad. I'm gonna do something even he wouldn't do.
- Jason McCord: Doesn't matter much what someone else thinks, as long as a man knows what he is. Inside.
- Jason McCord: Your first kill. Your brother told me the first kill was the hardest. Go ahead, Adam, but you better check that hammer first.