My grandmother is old, Famous Shoes said. She may want to tell me a few more stories before she dies.
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.
I’m in the mood to travel. Once you boys get settled I may go to China, for all you know.
It's very peculiar, the situations life presents one with, Father Geoff reflected.
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.
It seemed to him the highest principle, loyalty. He preferred it to honor. He had never been exactly sure what men meant when they spoke of their honor, though it had been a popular word during the ti...
It only went to show what he already knew, which was that there were more dangers in life than even the sharpest training could anticipate.
I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.
I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood with the myth of the primacy of feeling seldom like to admit they really want th...
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 two or three steps away from her and for a moment they did not know how to get to one another.
He was annoyed with his mind—it would be a lot easier to do his task well if his mind would just behave and not keep making him scared.
He sat where he was, on Mouse, in the grip of terrible indecision. He almost wished something would happen—a sudden attack of Mexicans or something. He might be killed, but at least he wouldn’t have t...
He had not stayed, but when he had gone, he hadn’t fought, either. He had done nothing but ride twice over the same stretch of prairie, while death had come to both camps.
He had known several men who had lost limbs in battle; the men all claimed that they still felt things in the place where the limb had been. It was natural enough, then, that with Bill suddenly gone h...
He had his knife and gun belt on over his underwear, in case of sudden attack.
Do you know what it means to be heartbroken?...It means your heart isn't whole, so you can't really do anything wholeheartedly.
Death and worse happened on the plains.
A good title can save a book,