It's funny, isn't it? We can pack things like these so carefully, and yet our plans, our lives, even, get smashed no matter what we do.

— Mary McCloud (Claire Trevor)

12 seconds sound clip from the Dark Command (1940) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:54:59 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- I'll have no part of your new life, your new riches.

- People are askin' questions why you ain't here, Will.

- Who?

- Fletch was here asking for ya yesterday.

- Said his sister's leavin' Kansas, goin' east.

- It's funny, isn't it? We can pack things like these so carefully, and yet our plans, our lives, even, get smashed no matter what we do.

- You're much too young to be so bitter and cynical.

- I don't feel young anymore. Dad's gone.

- Fletch wants to join the south. I can't stop him.

- You too. You belong to the southern armies.

[...]