To have traveled so far... From east to west, a thousand terrible miles; my feet treading 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.
Ada Monroe
If you are fighting, stop fighting. If you are marching, stop marching. Come back to me. Come back to me is my request.
Ada Monroe
If you are fighting, stop fighting. If you are marching, stop marching. Come back to me. Come back to me is my request.
Ada Monroe
All this while I've been packing ice around my heart. How will I make it melt?
Ada Monroe
My love for Linton is like the foliage in the wood. 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. Nellie, I AM Heathcliff! He's always, always on my mind. Not as a pleasure any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as part of my own being.
Ada Monroe
Maybe you can't see my face, but if you could see my inside, my whatever you want to call it, my spirit, that's the fear I have deeper than any gash on my neck. I think I'm ruined. They kept trying to put me in the ground, but I wasn't ready. But if I had goodness, I lost it. If I had anything tender in me I shot it dead.
Inman
She gave me a book. Ada Monroe. Man by the name of Bartram. Wrote about his travels. Sometimes just reading the name of a place near home - Sorell Cove, Fire Scale Ridge - enough to break your heart. Thing is, I've been thinking - those places belonged to people before us, to the Indian - What did he call Cold Mountain? How can a name, not even the real name, break your heart? It's her...She's the place I'm heading. And I hardly know her. I hardly know her!
Inman
Old Lady Swanger says you need help. Here I am!
Ruby Thewes
I despise a flogging rooster.
Ruby Thewes
If I cried one tear for my daddy I stole it off a crocodile!
Ruby Thewes
Every piece of this is man's bullshit. They call this war a cloud over the land, but they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say, "Shit! Its rainin'!"
Ruby Thewes
I'm reachin' Cold Mountain before you.
Oakley