The Mennonite watches the enshadowed dark before them as it is reflected to him in the mirror over the bar. He turns to them. His eyes are wet, he speaks slowly. The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was...
The Good Book says that the meek shall inherit the earth and I expect that's probably the truth. I aint no freethinker, but I'll tell you what. I'm a long way from bein convinced that it's all that go...
That night he dreamt of horses in a field on a high plain where the spring rains had brought up the grass and the wildflowers out of the ground and the flowers ran all blue and yellow far as the eye c...
Suttree stood among the screaming leaves and called the lightning down. It cracked and boomed about and he pointed out the darkened heart within him and cried for light. If there be any art in the wea...
Such a man is like a dreamer who wakes from a dream of grief to a greater sorrow yet. All that he loves is now become a torment to him. The pin has been pulled from the axis of the universe. Whatever...
Snowflake. You catch the snowflake but when you look in your hand you don’t have it no more. Maybe you see this dechado. But before you see it it is gone. If you want to see it you have to see it on i...
Se distinguían ya entre el polvo, pintados en el manto de los ponis, galones y manos y soles nacientes y pájaros y peces de todas clases como una obra vieja descubierta bajo el apresto de un lienzo y...
Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.
Riding down the unhorsed Saxons and spearing and clubbing them and leaping from their mounts with knives and running about on the ground with a peculiar bandylegged trot like creatures driven to alien...
Rich dreams now which he was loathe to wake from. Things no longer known in the world. The cold drove him forth to mend the fire. Memory of her crossing the lawn toward the house in the early morning...
People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things
People are always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.
No one cares. It’s not important. That’s where you’re wrong my friend. Everything’s important. A man lives his life, he has to make that important. Whether he’s a small town county sheriff or the pres...
Nem todas as palavras prestes a morrer são portadoras da verdade e a bênção que proporcionam não é menos genuína por se ver privada dos seus fundamentos.
Man glömmer det man vill minnas och man minns det man vill glömma.
Los recuerdos de los hombres son inciertos y el pasado que fue difiere muy poco del pasado que no fue.
Listen Sut. We’re painted into a corner anyways. I mean what if we was to just call up and say he died? I mean hell fire, you caint fool them guys. Them guys is doctors. They take one look at him and...
La vanidad del hombre podrá ser infinita pero su saber sigue siendo imperfecto y por más que valore sus juicios llegará un momento en que tendrá que someterlos al arbitrio de una instancia superior. Y
Journeyman priest or apprentice priest, said the judge. Men of god and men of war have strange affinities. I’ll not secondsay you in your notions, said Tobin. Dont ask it. Ah Priest, said the judge. W...
It’s a mystery. A man’s at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so.