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Tobin Humbolt: My Daddy's right. We are grass. We keep dying and coming back.
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Cal DeMuth: Here in the garden of forking paths, you didn't make any one choice. You made every choice. And they all led back to me.
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Ross Humboldt: Ross Humboldt's the name, real estate's the game.
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Travis McKean: I'm not leaving.
[Travis hands over Becky's necklace to Tobin]
Travis McKean: But you... You don't belong here, and neither does Becky. Don't let them in. Don't let them in, Tobin.
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Becky DeMuth: [to her alternate self over the phone] Listen to me. Don't let Cal hurt Travis. Don't leave him. Just stay with him, or else we're gonna keep making the same mistakes forever.
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Becky DeMuth: There once was a guy named McSweeney, who spilled some gin in his weenie. Just to be couth, he added vermouth, and slipped his girl a martini.
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Natalie Humboldt: [about Ross] Whatever he told hou, whatever he said to you, he's lying.
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Tobin Humbolt: The field doesn't move dead things. It makes them easier to find.
Tobin Humbolt: You can find her... but it's easier to find things when they're dead
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Ross Humboldt: [about the rock] I think it's a safe bet it's been here since before the Kiowa hunted on the Osage Cuestas. Older than the hills. Probably was here before the glaciers came and carried the hills away. You realize we're in the center of the contiguous United States. Smack-dab in the middle of the continent.
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Ross Humboldt: You ate it all.
Becky DeMuth: [groggy] Yeah.
Ross Humboldt: That's a good girl.
Becky DeMuth: It tastes like...
Ross Humboldt: Like what?
Becky DeMuth: Like... Like...
Ross Humboldt: You?
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Ross Humboldt: No. Don't worry, son. It's just flesh. And all flesh is grass.
In the Tall Grass Quotes
Extended Reading
