- Jim: I run off.
- Huckleberry Finn: Jim!
- Jim: I had to, Huck, I had to.
- Huckleberry Finn: You can't do that! You belong to the women.
- Jim: She was fixing to sell me, Huck. I heard her talking about it last night. She said she need the money bad. Had to give it to your Pap.
- Huckleberry Finn: Oh.
- Jim: If one of them slave traders got me, I never would get to that free state. I never would see my wife, or little Joey.