The Best 1883, Season 1, Episode 6 Quotes

- 'Cause this is the last store
- 'fore we get to Wyoming.
- What about abilene?
- God damn abilene.
- Hookers and killers is all you'll find there.
- I ain't going near that sum bitch.
- Mm-mmm.

Elsa: I laid in the grass...
- Closed my eyes...
- And I saw him.
- Laughed at his goofy hair.
- Felt the electricity of his touch.
- I laid in the grass and I loved him.

- Give you 35 dollars for all of it.
- I'll take it.
- All right.
- You want cash or you wanna trade?
- Cash.
- All right.

- 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.
- But you leave the hating to me.

- You know, there's going to be a school here next year.
- Ten years there wasn't nothing, not a soul in this country.
- Mm.
- And now there's gonna be a school.
[Laughs] That's progress.
- I'm not even sure I know what that word means anymore.
- Nobody does!

- They was more than paired up.
- She's in mourning like a damn widow.
- She is a widow.

- You hungry?
- No.
- Where are you going?
- I need some privacy.
- Why do you need privacy?
- I got my period.

- Living without them.
- Well...
- My reasons'd be different than yours.
- I don't have anyone left who loves me.
- You do.
- I'll tell you a secret.

- My husband's things.
- I have to sell them.
- Yes, ma'am, I'll get 'em sold.
- Thank you.
- Don't sell that shotgun.
- I don't know how to use it.
- I can teach you to use it.
- You're gonna need it.

- Miss Carol?
- Miss Carol, I need to supply up!
- Write down what you take.
- I'll be there in a minute.
- Write down what you take?
- All right!

- I suppose that's true.
- Every person on this planet will endure this pain until they are the cause of it for another.
- Someday, I'll die and shatter hearts, too.
- But that is not today.
- Today I am living and I'm the shattered.

- that makes you happy and protect you...
- Don't see the crime in it.
- You want me happy.
- 'Course I do.
- You want me to feel safe.
- Yes, ma'am.

- Do you need anything?
- Well...
- I wouldn't be mad at a chocolate bar, if they happen to have one.
- If they have one, I'll buy it.
- Much appreciated.
- Come on. [Clicks tongue]

- I ain't questioning what you're able to do.
- There's three times as many things that can go wrong in the water with that.
- Now, you can not forgive me all you want.
- Add this to your list of reasons.
- But I ain't losing you to a river.
- You're forgiven.

- Let's hold the herd up here.
James: Hold 'em up!

- If they can't cross a fucking river, how are they gonna cross the mountains or the goddam desert we go through first?
- Don't get mad.
- We ain't gotta do what the farmer say.
- If you wanna swim 'em across the river, then we'll swim 'em across the river.
- I'm mad 'cause he's right.

- Ice.
- My husband bought a block in fort worth in January.
- Got the ice box down our well.
- Hundred-pound block will last till June if we don't get in there much.
- This is the last of it and I ain't letting one bit go to waste.

- And she was about to kill another.
- I look in her eyes and the person staring back at me,
- I don't recognize.
- I will never forgive you for this!
- You don't forgive me?
- I don't forgive me.

Elsa: Then / opened my eyes...
- And I could see color again.
Colton: Ch-ch-ch-ch...
Colton: Hup hup!
- Hup, hup... ch-ch-ch-ch-ch...

- Fifty dollars.
- Fifty dollars?
- Ain't no damn concrete 'round here.
- 'Cause when I take it to the concrete it's worth 50.
- Tell you what.
- Here's 15.
- Keep that 35 and we're even.

- Girl...
- You go looking for trouble, you gonna find it every time.
- I wasn't looking for nothin' and it still found me.
- We should have a look at the river.
- Take John to your mom.
- She ain't back yet.

- That's love.
- Me letting you take care of me is not fear.
- It's loving you back.
- Do I look scared to you?
- I'm not the scared one.
- You are.

- I'm sorry he's gone.
- Me too.
- If... if I can do anything...
- Let me know.
- There's nothing to do.
- Ma'am.

- I'm taking my wife to the ocean...
- And I'm gonna sit on the beach, and let her see it.
- That was her dream.
- Then I'm going to see her.
- That's my dream.
- In the meantime, the herd could sure use its cowgirl.

- I put it down.
- James.
- I don't wanna waste looking over my shoulder for you.
- You won't find us if you do.
- We's headed to fort worth.
- Well, I'd be headed that way.

- How we getting them emigrants across?
- That'll take all day, too.
- At least nobody drowns.
- That's two days we don't have.
- We should be in Kansas by now.
- At some point they gotta learn to do things for themselves.
- The only thing they're gonna learn crossing that is how to die.

- Good morning.
- Mornin', ma'am.

- Where you going now?
- Back to work.

- What's her deal? She's pretty sporty.
- She was paired up with ennis till a comanchero shot him.
- She plugged that son of a bitch three times in the chest.
- Ennis got killed?
- Yeah, she won't be in the mood for you.
- They're all in the mood for me.

- You're the only person who talked to me about him.
- Thank you.
- Shhh.
- He don't like the water, huh?
[Laughs] He's excited.
- The water's his favorite part.
- Better let him at it then.
- Okay.

- They never are.
- Stars for a blanket.
- Ground for a bed.
- Good horse, open country.
- That's all a cowboy needs.
- Guess it's all a cowgirl needs too.

Elsa: What purpose does pain serve?
- I understand desire and fear...
- And love...
- And how they protect us and better our lives and bring new life.
- But grief...
- If I weren't so consumed by it, it would baffle me.

- Take John.
- I'd like to spend some time with Elsa.
- All right, come on, son.
- Here we go. [Grunts]
- Don't let those traders swindle you.
- I plan on doing the swindling.
- I'll bet.

- I got 35 dollars.
- Wish it was more, but it was fair.
- There's stew in the pot if you're hungry.
- I am.

- Mmm.
- Sorry.
- Thank you.
- Children can have that effect.
- Mine sure did.

- Would you like a lemonade?
- I would not, thank you.
- How 'bout a whiskey punch?
- You look like you could use it.
- Would you join me?
- Sister, I been joining you since noon.

- No more "ma'am."
- Noemi.
- Good morning, Noemi.
- Mornin'...
- Noemi.

- I figured out the shotgun.
- Don't taste like rabbit.
- Mostly rabbit.
- What else is it?
- Rattlesnake.
- Figured than one out, too.
- Got you something.

- What is wrong with you?
- Give it to me.
- You don't point this at anyone unless you plan on using it.
- I was gonna use it.
- Go to camp, and you wait there!

- Can't mess with an outfit's cook.
- You steal their cattle and they wouldn't be madder.
- I ain't looking for a gun fight this morning.
- We'll hire a cook and a cowboy going the other way at doan's.
- How's she doing?
- About how you'd expect.