- Lereaux: [to Tate after he beat Milo into unconsciousness] Take care, mon ami. This man is dangerous to have as an enemy.
- Jessica Jackson: [Despairing] If there was just some other way. Some answer.
- Tate: [Handing her a Bible] There are a lot of answers in here. I've found a few by just opening it at random.
- Tavibo: All day and all night I have fasted in the manner of my people. The spirits have spoken to me in my dreams. The boy must stay where his mother stays. The white man's ways can give him more than my way.
- Jessica Jackson: The white man's ways cannot replace the love of his father. It is in this he will grow wise and strong.
- [last lines]
- Tate: As long as he lived there would have been no peace for him or them.
- [Opening the Bible to where Jessica was reading]
- Tate: 'Intreat me not to leave you or to return from following you. For whither thou goest I will go, and whither thou lodgest I will lodge. Your people shall be my people.'