Like some scurrilous king stripped of his vestiture and driven together with his fool into the wilderness to die.
Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
They pulled the wet saddles off the horses and hobbled them and walked off in separate directions through the chaparral to stand spraddle legged clutching their knees and vomiting. The browsing horses...
He visto tantas maldades que no sé cómo Dios no apaga el sol y acaba con todos nosotros
Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.
He woke whimpering in the night and the man held him. Shh, he said. Shh. It's okay.I had a bad dream.I know.Should I tell you what it was?If you want to.I had this penguin that you wound up and it wou...
I knew that courage came with less struggle for some than for others but I believed that anyone who desired it could have it.
No man is give leave of that voice. The kid spat into the fire and bent to his work. I aint heard no voice, he said. When it stops, said Tobin, you’ll know you’ve heard it all your life.
The space which [books] occupied was itself an expectation.
I think maybe they are watching, he said. They are watching for a thing that even death cannot undo and if they do not see it they will turn away from us and they will not come back.
Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up,...
The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it.
Buddy when he come back from up in the panhandle told me one time it quit blowin up there and all the chickens fell over.
I was a Mormon. Then I converted to the church. Then I became I dont know what. Then I became me.
Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it.
I think the dead have no nationality.
She looked away. You make it like it was the coin. But you're the one. It could have gone either way.The coin didn't have no say. It was just you.Perhaps. But look at it my way. I got here the same wa...
I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.
When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end.
He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging...
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