Denver Quotes in Wagon Master (1950)

Travis Blue: Feet hurt, ma'am?

Denver: Nope!

Travis Blue: Well here, try these on!

[Hands here a pair of walking shoes, she puts them on]

Denver: Did you get these from that... red-headed gal?

Travis Blue: You mean Miss Prudence?... yes ma'am.

Denver: Is she your wife?

Travis Blue: No ma'am... How do they feel?

Denver: Fine. A little large for me maybe, but fine. Thanks very much, and thank your lady friend.

[Denver arises, and starts to walk away, Travis looks after her]

Travis Blue: She ain't that either ma'am!

Travis Blue: Sure hope that I see you again, Miss Denver.

Denver: Thanks, but don't plan on it, We move around. The medicine show has to, to stay healthy.

Travis Blue: We move around a lot trading horses. Good thing about it, though, you get to see a lot of pretty country, like the valley I got in mind. A man can make an awfully nice little cattle ranch in that valley. If he doesn't mind being lonesome.

Denver: [pauses] Good luck, fellow.

[She runs away, blinded by tears]

Travis Blue: Sure hope I see you again, Miss Denver.

Denver: Thanks, but don't think on it. We move around. The medice will show you have to to keep healthy.

Travis Blue: We move around a lot trading horses. Good thing about it, though: You get see alot of pretty country, like the valley I've got in mind. A man can make an awfully nice little cattle ranch in that valley, if he didn't mind being lonesome, and some one to help him with the cooking and such...

Denver: [pauses] Goodbye, fellow.

[She runs away, blinded by tears]

Denver: And don't call me Ma'am!

Travis Blue: Yes, Ma'am.

Denver: [to Alias] What's your name, boy?

Alias: Alias.

Denver: Alias what?

Alias: Alias anything you please.

Denver: What do we call you?

Alias: Alias.

Beaver: Hell, let's call him Alias!

Alias: That's what I'd do.

Denver: Alias it is.

Denver: Why you call yourself Beloved?

Beloved: In the dark, my name Beloved.

Denver: What's it like where you was before? Can you tell me?

Beloved: Dark. I was small in that place.

[curls up]

Beloved: Like this here.

Denver: Were you cold?

Beloved: Hot! Nothing to breathe down there. No room to move.

Denver: You see anybody?

Beloved: It's a lot of people down there. Some is dead.

Denver: You see Jesus? Baby Suggs?

Beloved: I don't know... I don't know the names.

Denver: Well, what you come back here for?

Beloved: To see her face.

Beloved: Mama's? Sethe's?

Beloved: [grabbing Denver's hand] Sethe's.

Denver: We have a ghost here, you know?

Sethe: Grandma Baby used to say your daddy was too good for this world. Remember? He was a good man. It scared her. She always used to fret he wasn't gonna make it through nothin'. He made it through a lot. But maybe Grandma Baby was right. Denver, your daddy ain't gonna never show up here. You understand?

Denver: But...

Sethe: [Shakes head] The day ain't gonna never come when Halle knocks on that door. Never.

Denver: You won't ever leave us will ya?

Beloved: No never, this is where I AM.

Denver: How come everybody from Sweet Home can't stop talking about it? Seems to me if it was so sweet, you wouldn't have run away.

Sethe: Girl, who you think you talking to?

Paul D: No, she's right, Sethe. It wasn't sweet, and it sure wasn't home.

Paul D: That girl... Beloved. She really gone, like they say?

Denver: Haven't seen her since that way. Mama say she gone. She can feel it.

Paul D: You think she was sure enough your sister?

Denver: Sometimes. Other times... I think she was more.