- David Lamb: If you discover that one day you hate me and you're angry with me and that I've ruined your life, at any time, if I'm 90, you'll tell me, won't you?
- Tommie: Gary...
- David Lamb: You'll buy a pair of steel-toed boots and you will find me all alone and dried up and sick in a nursing home and you'll kick my fucking teeth in.
- Tommie: Please don't say that.
- David Lamb: You will outgrow me. You will forget everything.
- Tommie: No, I won't.
- David Lamb: A love like ours is expensive, right? Think of it that way. We pay for it by not seeing each other.
- David Lamb: Imagine a place way better than this. Acres of pale grass. Slash of green, down where the tamaracks and cottonwoods grow by the river. You see all that?
- Tommie: Well, sort of... okay. Go.
- David Lamb: There's only one road to get in. El Rancho Road. It's still unpaved. You need a little black key to open it. Mountains taller than your eyes can see. Off to the side of the cabin, there's a shop. Inside it, there's a little wood stove. A little AM radio, and a bunch of my father's old tools. On the work bench there's a bunch of old pickle jars with rusted nails and half packs of cigarettes. You're not allowed to have any of those, okay? Beyond the shop, there's a set of bunkbeds. Looking out at the river at the river and the old, brown ragged horses that we keep.
- Tommie: I love horses!
- Tommie: How do you even know how to do all this stuff?
- David Lamb: Well, I've been waiting 40 years for a moment like this. I figured in all that time, I'd have probably figured out how it'd go.
- Tommie: But you didn't know about me that entire time.
- David Lamb: No. You are a complete and total surprise.
- Tommie: Good surprise?
- David Lamb: Good surprise.
- David Lamb: Don't ever forget this hurt. Don't ever forget the things that we've seen together, cause it'll save you. You will be an apple tree among all the ash-colored buildings of this city. You just need to close your eyes and take a deep breath and listen. Listen to the rain and the wind. All that rushing through you. That'll be me whispering to you. I'll be with you this way.
- David Lamb: I just need a little space. I need to test myself. Clean out my heart. It's like an old crowded garage in there that needs tidying.
- Linny: I don't know if you can tidy a heart. Not like you tidy a garage.