Laurie Jorgensen Quotes in The Searchers (1956)

Laurie Jorgensen: [Martin is preparing to join a raid against the Indians and rescue Debbie] You're not goin', not this time.

Martin: Are you crazy?

Laurie Jorgensen: It's too late. She's a woman grown now.

Martin: But I gotta go, Laurie, I gotta fetch her home.

Laurie Jorgensen: Fetch what home? The leavings a Comanche buck sold time and again to the highest bidder, with savage brats of her own?

Martin: Laurie, shut your mouth.

Laurie Jorgensen: Do you know what Ethan will do if he has a chance? He'll put a bullet in her brain.

[pause]

Laurie Jorgensen: I tell you, Martha would want him to.

Martin: Only if I'm dead.

Martin: You know, Laurie, I was just thinking that maybe it's about time you and me started going steady, huh?

Laurie Jorgensen: Why, Martin Pawley, you and me been going steady since we was three years old!

Martin: We have?

Laurie Jorgensen: 'Bout time you found out about it.

Laurie Jorgensen: Ethan rode on an hour ago. Now Martin I don't know what you can do about finding Debbie that he can't. He'll find her now, Martin. Honest he will.

Martin: That's what I'm afraid Of Laurie, him finding her. Oh I've seen his eyes at the very word "Comanche". I've seen him take his knife and - - Never mind. He's a man that can go crazy wild and I intend to be there to stop him in case he does.

Laurie Jorgensen: [reading a letter from Martin on his Indian wife] "She wasn't nearly as old as you." How old does he think I am?