- Ruben: What is your name.
- Lola de Torrano: It's Lola.
- Ruben: That's from Dolores. It means sorrow.
- Lola de Torrano: I don't want to think about sorrow now.
- Lola de Torrano: Where do you come from?
- Ruben: See the two volcanos? My village is far on the other side in a long valley with a river running through it.
- Lola de Torrano: It sounds so beautiful. So peaceful. I've lived in cities all my life. Cities where the bulls are killed.
- Lola de Torrano: What's your village like? Are the people there kind? Like you?
- Ruben: Kind and mean. Good and bad. Like any village, anywhere.
- Alejandro Castillo: Are you in love again?
- Pepe Gonzales: This is the love with salt in it!
- Ruben: That's what you say every time.
- Pepe Gonzales: But, she's the first girl who ever bit me. And if that isn't love, what is?
- Don Homero Calderon: If you just *roll* the eye at Napoleon Lopez he'd propose to you this very night.
- Eufemia Calderon: But, I don't love him!
- Don Homero Calderon: What has love got to do with choosing a proper husband? Napoleon Lopez is not only a graduate bookkeeper; but, he has a fine appreciation of fighting cocks.
- Lola de Torrano: He believes his life is bound to mine - that if I ever marry he'll die. Don't laugh. We are gypsies. We believe these things. Remember he faces the black bull of death every Sunday.
- Gitanillo de Torrano: I go to the bullring tomorrow. While you risk my life with an alley dog sniffing at your skirts.
- Eufemia Calderon: How dare you come here!
- Pepe Gonzales: The bee must return to the honey of your lips.
- Pepe Gonzales: Why am I always blamed for everything?
- Father Zacaya: Because you are usually guilty, my son.
- Little Doctor: Sometimes its better not to know. Your father had his weaknesses too. But, I just ignored them! That made our marriage very much easier.
- Tia Magdalena: Gypsies are children of a changing moon. When they link hands with Grandfather Devil, they can find *no* peace until they break the spell - by passing through earth and water, fire and air. Tonight, when the thunder beats his drums and the lightning is aflame in the sky, the sleeping ducks awaken. Perhaps you heard their voices calling to her. Perhaps, high in the mountaintops, where the four winds blow, she is dancing to the witch music.
- [first lines]
- Pepe Gonzales: Oh, hello, everybody. Welcome to my village of Columba. You're just in time for the beauty contest.
- Pepe Gonzales: There have been holy wars and surely war is an evil thing. Why can't there be be a holy cockfight?