I would prefer to be shot, myself, if I get that sick, Call said. Once there’s no avoiding death I see no point in lingering. Augustus smiled at the comment, and poured himself a little more whiskey....
I guess we could pile some rocks on her, Call said. I hate just to leave a body laying out.Woodrow, she's mostly et anyway, Gus said. Why spoil the buzzards' picnic?
I don't know why you would even want to stay with me, I said.T.R. looked stunned for a second and then whipped her elbow into my side as hard as she could--months later it was determined that the jab...
His feet were swollen to twice their size, besides being cut here and there. Yet they were the only feet he had, and after dozing for an hour in the sun, he got up and hobbled on.
He had seen highly competent men stand as if paralyzed in a crisis, though once someone took command and told them what to do they might perform splendidly.
Governors and legislators wanted the hostiles held in check and the bandits hung, but they wanted it all to be done with the fewest possible men on the cheapest possible horses. It irritated Call and...
For a time Dish lost all sense of what life was about. He even lost the sense that he was a cowboy, the strongest sense he had to work with. He was just a fellow with a glass in his hand, whose life h...
Do you know what it means to be heartbroken? It means your heart isn't whole, so you can't really do anything wholeheartedly.
Basically Jake just dreamed his way through life and somehow got by with it.
Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime.
And yet death was not something you could ignore. It had its weight. It was a dead man lying upstairs, not a man who was sick. It seemed to her she had better not form the practice of ignoring death....
And the blue pigs walked all the way to Montana just to be eaten. Life ain’t for sissies, as Augustus might have said.
Was not old enough to understand the need to go back to a place where things were simple. He had no happiness in his face, the young ranger; perhaps he had never had a place where things were simple,...
Though his day-to-day responsibilities had constantly shrunk over the last ten years, life did not seem easier. It just seemed smaller and a good deal more dull. Call
The seven of them rode for two hours into country that seemed to contain nothing except itself.
Perhaps as he grew older he would learn to trust mysteries and not fear them.
Figure the reason you don’t have much to say is you probably never met a man who liked to hear a woman talk.
But mash whiskey took some of the dry away and made Augustus feel nicely misty inside—foggy and cool as a morning in the Tennessee hills. He seldom got downright drunk, but he did enjoy feeling misty...
Why hell yes, Joe Bob! A cripple can always get himself a wooden leg, or a glass eye, or a metal hook for a hand, or any of that mess -- but there ain't no known substitute for a big dick. I guess you...
We mostly quarreled. He wanted what I wouldn’t give. I wanted what he didn’t have.