He thought living in a place where there were eagles to watch might encourage some pretty good dreams.
He knew what he could certainly do, and what he might do if he was lucky, and what he couldn’t do barring a miracle.
He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry th...
Certain mountains were that way, like the Bighorns. The air around them was so clear you could ride toward them for days without seeming to get any closer. And yet, if you kept riding, you would get t...
But, if one cuts more deeply, the lonesome dove is Newt, a lonely teenager who is the unacknowledged son of Captain Call and a kindly whore named Maggie, who is now dead. So the central theme of the n...
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.
Could put no weight on the wounded ankle at
You have to remember that I've been lonely for a long time. Loneliness is like ice. After you've been lonely long enough you don't realize you're cold, but you are... I don't know, maybe at the center...
You can’t avoid it, you’ve got to learn to handle it, Augustus said. If you only come face-to-face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it’s bound to be extra painful. I face mine every d...
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...
Watching them, Harmony felt too shaken to take a step. Eddie and Sheba were young; but she herself had become old. Even if she wasn’t particularly old if you just counted years, the fact was years wer...
The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.
The reason I'm so crazy is because nobody cares anything about me. I don't guess there's anybody I care much about, either. It's my own fault, though - I haven't had the guts to try and do anything ab...
The other men were easy to talk to, but they didn’t know anything. If one stopped to think about it, it was depressing how little most men learned in their lifetimes.
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...
It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.
It was inconsiderate, she thought, how blandly people mentioned the future in the sick rooms. Phrases like next summer were always popping out; people made such assumptions about their own continuity.
I haven’t planned, very much, July said honestly. Seems like every time I make a plan something happens to change it.
I figured out something, Lorie, he said. I figured out why you and me get along so well. You know more than you say and I say more than I know. That means we’re a perfect match, as long as we don’t ha...
Dish said no more, and Augustus decided not to tease him. Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity- they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits. The years wo...