Inman Quotes in Cold Mountain (2003)

Inman: [to Ada] If you could see my inside, or whatever you want to name it; my spirit, that's what I fear. I think I'm ruined. They kept trying to put me in the ground but I wasn't ready. But if I had... if I had goodness, I lost it. If I had anything tender in me, I shot it dead! How could I write to you after what I'd done? What I'd seen?

Inman: Ada, I wanna marry you. If you'll have me.

Ada: Isn't there some religion where you just say I marry you, three times, and then you're man and wife?

Inman: I marry you, I marry you, I marry you.

[Ada laughs]

Inman: Why is that funny?

Ada: No, I think it's I divorce you three times and then you're not married anymore.

[Ada laughs]

Inman: I can wait for ya.

Ada: Oh, Inman, I marry you, I marry you, I marry you, I marry you, I marry you.

[Ada and Inman kiss]

Ada: I have so... I have so many buttons, is that alright? Will you turn your back?

[Inman turns his back but then he turns back around]

Inman: Nope. No, I will not.

Inman: You are all that keeps me from sliding into some dark place.

Ada: But how did I keep you? We barely knew each other. A few moments.

Inman: A thousand moments. They're like a bag of tiny diamonds glittering in a black heart. Don't matter if they're real or things I made up. The shape of your neck, that's real. You were always carrying a tray.

Ada: You wouldn't come inside.

Inman: I wouldn't come inside.

Ada: I had to carry a tray to come out and see you.

Inman: The way you felt when I pulled you to me. That kiss- which I kissed again everyday of my walking.

Ada: Everyday of my waiting...

Veasey: Oh God of my God! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Junior: What's up?

Veasey: The Israelites! The tribes of Israel are about to flee from the banks of Egypt! Hallelujah!

Inman: He's got a shit coming on. It's overdue.

Inman: I imagine God is weary of being called down on both sides of an argument.

Ada: Hello, I'm Ada Monroe.

Inman: I'm Inman.

Ada: Inman?

Inman: W.P. Inman.

Ada: [repeats it] W.P. Inman.

Inman: Repeating a thing doesn't improve it.

Inman: But I'm a deserter. If they find me here things could get bad for you.

Maddy: What are they gonna do? Cut short me young life?

Blind Man: Gettin' better, soldier?

Inman: Seems that way.

Blind Man: I wouldn't hurry. The war's almost done.Don't need your help to lose it.

[chuckles]

Inman: Been meanin' to ask you, where'd you take your wound?

Blind Man: Oh, before I was born. Never set eyes on a thing in this world. Not a tree, a gun, or a woman. Put my hand on all three, though.

Inman: She's the place I'm heading. But I hardly know her. I just can't seem to get back to her.

Inman: I came back for you.

Inman: I ain't getting shot again for some cause I don't believe in.

Inman: Come out of there.

Bosie: No, sir. Here's fine.

Inman: I'll just have to shoot the horse from under you.

Bosie: Shoot her. She's not mine. You riding Mr. Teague's animal?

Inman: I am.

Bosie: He dead?

Inman: I hope so. Look, how old are you? Give me your gun and ride home, I'm done fighting. I'm sick of it.

Bosie: I give you my gun and you'll shoot me dead.

Inman: I will not shoot you, but nor am I walking down that mountain looking over my shoulder for you.

Bosie: That's what you call a conundrum. I tell you what I've got on my side.

Inman: What have you got on your side?

Bosie: The confidence of youth.

[Veasey finds a saw]

Veasey: Hey! Look at this! This is a good saw.

Inman: It's not yours. You take it, you make us another enemy. You are a Christian- don't you know your commandments?

Veasey: You'll find the good Lord very flexible on the subject of property. We could do a lot with this saw...

Sara: I'm alone here, as you can see, with my baby. I need to believe you mean no harm.

[Inman takes out his gun]

Inman: No, I mean to give it to you.

Sara: I don't want it. If I had my way they'd take metal altogether out of this world. Every blade, every gun.

Ruby: Have you been shot?

Inman: Not lately.

Inman: This doesn't come out right. If it were enough to stand, without the words.

Ada: It is, it is.

Inman: Look at the sky now. What color is it? Or the way a hawk flies. Or you wake up and your ribs are bruised thinking so hard on somebody. What do you call that?

Inman: I'm wetter than a fish.

Inman: [in bed with Sara] Thing is, I love someone. I love someone very much.

Inman: I've had to put myself in the way of people's kindness.

Ada: Did you get a picture made?

Inman: Say again?

Ada: A tintype, with your gun and courage on display.

Inman: You're laughing at me.

Ada: I don't know you.

Inman: You're always carrying a tray.

Inman: [to Veasey] I should have shot you when I had the chance.

Veasey: Please yourself. I'm just being a Christian.

Inman: Move away from the baby!

Bardolph: Don't shoot.

Inman: Take off your boots. Take off your pants and your shirt.

[Bardolph takes off his boots, pants, and shirt]

Bardolph: Don't shoot me, please. We're starving. We haven't eaten.

Inman: You'd better get running before you catch your death of cold.

Bardolph: Thanks, thank you. I will.

[Bardolph starts to run, and then Sara shoots him]