Don't be trying to give back pain for pain...You can't get even measures in business like this.
Do you know what it means to be heartbroken? It means your heart isn't whole, so you can't really do anything wholeheartedly.
But once in a while, even if nobody mentioned one, the thought of women entered his head all on its own, and once it came it usually tneded to stay for several hours, filling his noggin like a cloud o...
But as far as trusting the general run of men, there was no need, since she had no intention of ever expecting anything from one of them again.
Buffalo Hump knew his son was brave, but that was not enough. If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.
Better by far never to have known the pleasure than to have the pain that followed.
As the day died and the afterglow stretched upward in the soft, empty sky, the Hat Creek outfit, seven strong, crossed the river and rode southeast, toward the Hacienda Flores.
As she was finishing her song, the notes dipped down low—they carried a sadness that was more than a sadness at the death of men; rather it was a sadness at the lives of men, and of women. It reminded...
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....
A chain of follies had put him there: Call’s abrupt decision to become a cattleman and his own decision, equally abrupt, to try and rescue a girl foolish enough to be taken in by Jake Spoon. None of i...
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,...
That evening: she was going to a country club dance with Lester Marlow. She wasn’t sheddin’ no tears over the telephone, Duane said bitterly. She may be getting to like country club dances, that’s wha...
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...
You’re like a starving person whose stomach is shrunk up from not having any food. You’re shrunk up from not wanting nothing.
Why would you want to keep in practice being wrong? Call asked. I’d think it would be something you’d try to avoid. You can’t avoid it, you’ve got to learn to handle it, Augustus said. If you only com...
Why in the hell would anybody think they wanted to take cattle to Montana? Dixon, the scout, said. He had an insolent look.We thought it would be a good place to sit back and watch 'em shit, Augustus...
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...
WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having...
The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.
The man turned his blue eyes on July for a moment. 'Why, son, I'm fine,' he said. 'You're the one in trouble. I can see you carry a weight on your heart. You're hurrying along to do something you may...