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Sundays 8:00 PM on Paramount1883 Season 1 Episode 3: "River" Quotes
James: How am I supposed to sneak up on somethin' with a five year old?
Margaret: Teach him to be quiet or find a dumb deer.
Girl, I've forgotten more about horses than you'll ever know.
Margaret
Thomas: Ain't much of a team player.
Shea: Yeah, but he's capable.
Thomas: Don't like him questionin' us.
Shea: Not much we can do about it. He ain't on the payroll.
Thomas: Yeah. When there's two leaders, there ain't no leader. Know what I mean? Need to figure that out.
If I speak, and you don't do what I say, you get hurt. That's the pattern here, and it don't stop until you do what I say or you run out of face.
Thomas
If you steal, you will stay where you stole.
Shea
Ennis: My gosh; you're forward.
Elsa: Look who's blushin' now.
Ennis: You sayin' I made you blush?
Ennis: You have terrible taste in men.
Elsa: [chuckles] You ain't a man. You're just a boy.
Ennis: I'm man enough.
Elsa: Jut a boy. Guess I have terrible taste in boys, too. [laughs] This flirtin' thing is fun!
Ennis: So, she was! She was flirtin'! Kinda mean the way she does it, but she was flirtin'! Woo hoo!
James: We took a life to give us life, so now we say think you.
John: To who?
James: The deer.
John: But the deer's dead. He can't hear us.
James: We say it anyway.
John: How do we say thank you?
James: We just say it.
John: Thank you.
James: When you kill a thing, son, it makes you less man, but more animal. We try to find the balance between 'em. That's all life is. You understand?
I watched her ride, and I didn't see my mother. I saw a woman; and the woman was magnificent.
Elsa
I don't think you're gonna win a medal for wagon boss.
Thomas
Shea: My daughter's one of those kids could've made the world better.
Thomas: Yes, she was.
Shea: I'm doin' this for the same reasons, Thomas.
James: You wanna court my daughter, you can.
Ennis: Court her?
James: You can do it.
Ennis: Not sure what it means.
James: Well, son. It means you can talk. Talk, and go on rides. Talk.
Ennis: We kinda been doin' that.
James: You know the drill, then. You break her heart or get handsy, you and me gonna have a problem.
Ennis: Define handsy. [James eyes him]. Joke. Bad time to tell it. Sorry. Sorry.
James: Damn, boy.
