“Tristan, I have nowhere to send this letter and no reason to believe you wish to receive it. I write it only for myself. And so I will hide it away along with all the things left unsaid and undone between us.”

Julia Ormond - Susannah Fincannon

“- Anne Hilton: When a man goes off to war, we have to be... the telegram came just a few minutes ago. It was addressed to you, but I opened it.
- Jane Hilton: Did it say he was missing, or what? I don't care if he's wounded, I don't care what's happened to him, if only...
- Anne Hilton: No, dear, it said he... died in action at Salerno.”

Claudette Colbert - Anne Hilton
Jennifer Jones - Jane Hilton

“I know a lot about dying. There's two ways you can handle it: with self pity, or without it.”
Laurence Fishburne - Marion Bishop

“- Tristan: You know when Samuel died... when Samuel died, I cursed God. Did I damn everybody around me as well as myself?
- Colonel Ludlow: No. You are not damned, Tristan... I won't allow that.”
Brad Pitt - Tristan Ludlow
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Col. William Ludlow

“How much I wanted to take scalps... but it was not my kill.”
Gordon Tootoosis - One Stab