There was a period when he wanted to go back, when it would have been nice to sit with Maggie a few minutes and watch her fiddle with her hair. But he chose the river, and his solitude, thinking that...
The sensible way, which he had pursued once or twice in his life, had always proved boring, usually within a few days.
Razzy was insulting me silently somehow.
Pussyfooting is a vice I have been concerned to avoid.
Por que siempre ha sido propio el amor que después de los besos vengan los suspiros.
Me and Call have always liked to get where we started for, even if it don't make a damn bit of sense.
Life makes everybody strange, if you keep living long enough,
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 day—that way they ain’t usually much worse than a dry shave.
I think we spent our best years fighting on the wrong side.
I don’t believe in protein, I said. I think it’s a myth, like vitamins. I don’t believe in nutrition, in fact. I think it’s all a myth.
He himself had once been a man of firm opinion, but now it seemed to him that he knew almost nothing, whereas the words Clara flung at him were hard as rocks.
Deets slapped his leg and laughed, the thought was so funny. When the rest of the outfit finally wondered down from the house they found the two of them grinning back and forth at one another.Look at...
By the end of the week, all the cowboys along the river knew that the only sporting woman in Lonesome Dove had abruptly given up the sport.
You ought to take more chances, I said. I took too many earlier, she said. I'm sorry.
Wantin' takes too much time...I'd rather be working.
The skinny ones last longer than the fat ones, Louisa said. You’ll probably last till you’re about sixty.
Once, when I was about ten, we were approaching the ranch after veering north to look at some pasturage when we saw a small barefoot boy racing along the hot road with terror in his face. My father ju...
Not too many men, in his experience, had achieved a great thing, even one. Very few ever achieved more than one, he knew.
My main skills are talking and cooking biscuits, Augustus said. And getting drunk on the porch. I’ve probably slipped a little on the biscuits in the last few days, and I’ve lost the porch, but I can...
Life ain’t for sissies, as Augustus might have said.