William Ashton: You don't think much of people, do you?
Spring Tyler: I don't know many of them. But if the ones I don't know are like the ones I know, then I don't want to know the ones I don't know.

William Ashton: You still angry with me?
Spring Tyler: Nope. I get over things fast; especially people and other diseases.

Tommy Tyler: Buried me at sea, did you?
Spring Tyler: You don't have to look like that, it was a decent funeral.

Tommy Tyler: I ain't been much of a father to you have I? The day you were born I said to myself, here's one for freedom. Here's one they won't get. The night you were launched I reckon I was the happiest guy alive. I couldn't stop wondering what the finest thing I could do for you was. And then I knew... or I thought I knew. Well that 'fine thing' is the life you have now. Only now I'm beginning to wonder if it was the right thing after all. Fathers don't usually figure on their little girls growing up.

Tommy Tyler: I ain't gonna ask you why you weren't here to get supper last night. And I ain't gonna ask you why you weren't here to get breakfast this morning. I ain't even gonna ask you why you left the Sarah all alone without a soul on board. And I got other things in mind I ain't gonna ask you about.

Tommy Tyler: I got a safe deposit box in Tampa with four thousand one hundred and sixty-seven dollars and twenty-two cents. Now if it develops today I ain't as smart as I think I am, see that she gets into some girls' school. A strict one.

Tommy Tyler: I told you he'd be here. If he hadn't been, I'd of lost all faith in crooks.

Tommy Tyler: I want to talk to Ashton.
Spring Tyler: Are you going to shoot him?
Tommy Tyler: Should I?
Spring Tyler: He didn't do anything but keep me warm.
Tommy Tyler: That's what God made fire for.

Tommy Tyler: I'm Tommy Tyler. This *mouth* here is my daughter Spring.

Tommy Tyler: If you did what you were supposed to, I wouldn't have to keep telling you, now would I?
Spring Tyler: Sure you would... just to keep in practice.