- Paladin: Reverend. Wasn't it McCaulay who said there is a universal solvent that dissolves all riddles. Its name is truth.
- Maya Ferguson: You will agree to remember at all times please that I'm a lady.
- Paladin: Well, your mother knew something that apparently they are not teaching young ladies in schools in the East these days. The quickest way to bring out the worst in a man is to make certain that it's there.
- Alice Ferguson (AKA Blue Dollar Alice): Every man is half hero, half scared little boy. A woman who wants to be a real woman, always forgets the second part.
- Paladin: [First lines] Your type of woman isn't strong enough to face wolves and sweat in death, Maya. But your mother could let men cry in her arms, and make them laugh again.