I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it.
He was tired of seeing his family only in dreams.
He was fairly drunk, and feeling melancholy about all the sinking he had done in the world. Throughout the rough years the Greek alphabet had leaked out of his mind a letter at a time—in fact, the can...
He doesn't talk much, though, she added. I don't care whether he talks or not, Lorena said. I wouldn't marry a man just for conversation. I'd rather read and having to know how than listen to some man...
He didn’t feel sad. The one thing he knew about Texas was that he was lucky to be leaving it alive—and, in fact, he had a long way to go before he could be sure of accomplishing that much.
Besides, though she considered herself his sweetheart, she didn’t consider him her master.
He had learned in his years of tracking Indians that things which seemed impossible often weren’t.
He had learned in his years of tracking Indians that things which seemed impossible often weren’t. They only became so if one thought about them too much so that fear took over. The thing to do was go...
You don't look strong enough to trouble nobody around here.... We grow our own troubles--it would be a novelty to have some we ain't already used to.
You better introduce yourself before you start talking Latin.
Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.
Woodrow don't mention nothing he can keep from mentioning. You couldn't call him a mentioner.
With both the Indian and the women he was always left with the feeling that, without meaning to, he had made some kind of mistake.
Who asked them dern pigs? he said. I guess they tracked us, Augustus said. They’re enterprising pigs.
Well, boys, Long Bill said. I guess here's where I quit rangering. It's rare sport, but it ain't quite safe.
We might all get killed this afternoon, for all I know. That's the wild for you - it's got its dangers, which is part of the beauty.
Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side o...
This is a damn useless conversation. Goodbye. (Charles Goodnight to Woodrow Call)
The woman had won. In the end, it seemed they always did.
The journeys that people took had always interested him; his own life was a constant journeying, though not quite so constant as it had been before he had his wives and children. Usually he only agree...