They don't know it, but the wrath of the Lord is about to descend upon them.
The skinny ones last longer than the fat ones, Louisa said. You’ll probably last till you’re about sixty.
Still, he was a salaried man. Even though Katie, who had been a good wife, was dead, he was not his own master.
Por que siempre ha sido propio el amor que después de los besos vengan los suspiros.
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...
Me and Call have always liked to get where we started for, even if it don't make a damn bit of sense.
It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.
It was only the thought that Deets was still knowing him, somehow, that kept him from feeling totally alone.
It was a great annoyance to Billy that because of a long shit and a short nap he had lost his horse. But that was the truth of it and there was nothing he could do but limp along.
It ain’t a mistake to behave like a human being once in a while,
In the night Lorena tried to sort it out in her mind. She had been hungry so much, tired so much, scared so much, that her mind didn’t work well anymore. Sometimes she would try to remember something...
He wondered if all men felt such disappointment when thinking of themselves. He didn’t know.
Besides, though she considered herself his sweetheart, she didn’t consider him her master.
He had learned in his years of tracking Indians that things which seemed impossible often weren’t. They only became so if one thought about them too much so that fear took over. The thing to do was go...
Alone. A military unit is a fine thing when it works, he said. But it usually don’t work. A solitary feat of arms is better, if the foe is worthy.
Who asked them dern pigs? he said. I guess they tracked us, Augustus said. They’re enterprising pigs.
When Famous Shoes finished his song he noticed that the young white man was asleep. During the day he had not trusted enough, and had worn himself out with pointless scurryings. Perhaps even then the...
We might all get killed this afternoon, for all I know. That's the wild for you - it's got its dangers, which is part of the beauty.