No matter how well he worked. It was a little discouraging: the harder he tried to please the Captain, the less the Captain seemed to be pleased.
He had learned in his years of tracking Indians that things which seemed impossible often weren’t.
Bandit,
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 can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.
Worm was old; he was a man of silence. He could speak prophecy and make spells, but mostly he was quiet and alert, a pleasure to travel with.
When any of these billionaires enters the market for rare books, it is little wonder that there is no ceiling. Not long ago a dealer put $500,000 on a copy of Prufrock inscribed by Eliot to the great...
When Newt walked in the barn to get a rope, the Captain turned and handed him a holstered pistol and a gun belt. Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it, he added, a little s...
Well, I got to admit I still like a fight, Augustus said. They sharpen the wits. The only other thing that does that is talking to women, which is usually more dangerous.
We mostly quarreled. He wanted what I wouldn’t give. I wanted what he didn’t have.
Somewhere along the Rio Concho, he had stopped feeling that he lived in a world where ledgers mattered.
Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.
Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity—they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits.
My grandmother is old, Famous Shoes said. She may want to tell me a few more stories before she dies.
Maude Rainey was built like a barrel, with a bosom as big as buckets and a voice that some claimed would make hair fall out.
Many white men could not trust things unless they could be explained; and yet the most beautiful things, such as the trackless flight of birds, could never be explained.
Jake looked a little more sorrowful as he picked his teeth. Kilt a dentist, he said. A pure accident, but I kilt him....Well, I've always considered dentistry a dangerous profession, Augustus said. Ma...
I’m in the mood to travel. Once you boys get settled I may go to China, for all you know.
It's like I told you last night son. The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight, he added
It was often that way with women, it seemed. One minute Lorie would be drilling holes in him with her eyes, and the next minute she and Clarie would be combing one another’s hair and singing tunes.