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Sundays 8:00 PM on Paramount1883 Season 1 Episode 6: "Boring the Devil" Quotes
Shea: I know how you feel. A lot of people are going to tell you that. Whether it's truth or not, I don't know. But I know it's true when I say it. I've sat right where you're sittin', thinkin' the same thing. Thinkin' I don't want to live without them. Don't see the point. Still do most days. But here I am, livin' without 'em.
Elsa: Why?
Shea: Well, my reasons be different than yours. I don't have anyone left who loves me. You do. I'll tell you a secret. I'll tell you why I'm still suckin' air today. I'm headin' to the ocean.
Elsa: The ocean?
Shea: An Apache scout told me once when you love somebody, you trade souls with 'em. They get a piece of yours; you get a piece of theirs. But when your love dies, a little piece of you dies with 'em. That's why you hurt so bad. But that little piece of him is still inside you, and he can use your eyes to see the world. So, I'm takin' my wife to the ocean, and I'm gonna sit on the beach and let her see it. That was her dream. And I'm gonna see her. That's my dream. In the meantime, the herd could sure use its cowgirl.
Thomas: Don't sell that shotgun.
Neomi: I don't know how to use it.
Thomas: I can teach you how to use it. You're gonna need it.
James: Don't let those traders swindle you.
Margaret: I plan on doin' the swindlin'.
James: [chuckles] I bet.
James: You don't point this at anyone unless you plan to use it.
Elsa: [sneers] I was gonna use it.
Colton: They was more than paired up. She's in mourning like a damn widow.
Wade: She is a widow.
James: Girl, you go lookin' for trouble, you're gonna find it every time.
Elsa: I wasn't lookin' for nothin' and it still found me.
Margaret: [crying] Wherever we're going, it better be paradise 'cause it's costing us a daughter. And if you ask me, it's a shitty trade.
James: We ain't tradin' nothin'.
Margaret: She killed a man!! And she was about to kill another. I look in her eyes and the person starin' back at me, I don't recognize. I'll never forgive you for this!
James: You don't forgive me? I don't forgive me!
You didn't see the way he was lookin' at me. Wouldn't matter if you did. Men don't know how to read that look; they only know how to give it.
Elsa
You did not kill him, understand? The meanest thing you can do to yourself is hate somebody else. I know what it feels like to hate the world. You don't want to feel it, honey. Be sad, miss him, cry yourself blind. Leave the hatin' to me.
James
Neomi: Why did you buy me this?
Thomas: Well, if I looked like you, I figure I'd stare at myself every chance I got.
Neomi: This is a present.
Thomas: Yes, it is.
Neomi: You won't marry me. You won't love me. But you'll buy me gifts?
Thomas: You're sad and scared. You have every right to be. If I can give ya somethin' that will make you happy and protect you, I don't see the harm in it.
Neomi: You want me happy.
Thomas: Of course, I do.
Neomi: You want me to feel safe.
Thomas: Yes, mam.
Neomi: That's love. Me letting you take care of me is not fear. It's loving you back. [she removes her dress] Do I look scared to you? [kneels before him] I'm not the scared one. You are. [they kiss]
Elsa: Don't bother flirtin' with me.
Colton: Why not?
Elsa: You're too pretty for me. I prefer to be the pretty one. Bet you prefer it, too. [he laughs]
Shea: Spring back in your step, I see.
Elsa: You're the only person who talked to me about him. Thank you. [kisses him on the cheek]
