Paladin: You were supposed to push when I lifted!
Melissa Griffin: I'm sorry. But I have to talk to you.
Paladin: Talk? Talk?
Melissa Griffin: About that. (looks at his gun)
Paladin: Well, what about it?
Melissa Griffin: I'm against it.
Paladin: So am I.
Melissa Griffin: I'm serious!
Paladin: So am I.
Melissa Griffin: You seem like a gentleman. Why would you have to carry a gun?
Paladin: Because in the world around us, there are a number of men who are not gentlemen.

Paladin: I'm not a gunman, Miss...?
Melissa Griffin: Melissa. Sister Melissa. I'm a missionary. I shall pray for you, Mr...?
Paladin: Paladin. And I thank you.
Melissa Griffin: I'll be there to help if you need me.
Paladin: Is this your first mission alone?
Melissa Griffin: At the mission school, they said I was ready for it. They said they couldn't hold me back anymore.
Paladin: Oh, I believe that.

Paladin: You are beautiful. And your faith is beautiful, but sometimes the essence of beauty is its fragility. And Bugbear is not a good place to test it.
Melissa Griffin: Are you afraid of a test?
Paladin: No.
Melissa Griffin: Nor am I.

Paladin: Perhaps we could strike some kind of compromise. I make it a practice never to wear a gun when I'm having dinner with a lady.
Melissa Griffin: Perhaps that's just when you should keep your powder dry, Mr. Paladin.

Paladin: Well, you are a woman of great determination.
Melissa Griffin: Does that frighten you? It's frightened every other man.
Paladin: No. But I do puzzle about you.
Melissa Griffin: Perhaps you imagine me leading the martyrs into the Colosseum.
Paladin: Oh, no. I should be very concerned for the lions in that case.

Mayor Harper: (paying Paladin) Well, here it is. There's some of us feel by rights you should split it.
Barber: You couldn't have done it alone.
Paladin: I didn't say I could. But since Melissa has your guns and your pledges, and that's all she asked for, I will accept your money, since that's all I asked for.
Melissa Griffin: That's fair, I suppose. Of course, I don't have your pledge.
Paladin: No.
Mayor Harper: Ain't you goin' her way?
Paladin: Heraclitus says that all ways are the same way. And it could be that he's right.