“ At the risk of descending to unscientific generalizations, 90 percent of Texans give the other 10 percent a bad name. - Mary Doria Russell
“ Have you ever thought about a Twelve Step program for people who talk too much? You could call it On and On Anon. Mary Doria Russell
“ Wyatt Earp had been born, and born again, and now there would be a third life, for the iron fist that had seized his soul in childhood had lost its grip at last. The long struggle for control was over… Mary Doria Russell
“ If somebody honks a horn in Cleveland, they're saying 'Hi.' It's so rare to be honked at in anger. When we have merging traffic, we just interweave. There's real courtesy. Mary Doria Russell
“ [John] watched the flames for a while. I would have to say that I find God in serving His children. 'When I was hungry and you fed me, I was thirsty and you gave me to drink, I was a stanger and you w… Mary Doria Russell
“ Distressing to be hated because of lies, isn't it. (Mirella)Especially when there are so many legitimate reasons to be hated. (Schramm) Mary Doria Russell
“ Emilio was certainly within his rights not to reveal the sordid details of his childhood even to his friends. Or perhaps especially to his friends, whose good opinion of him, he might feel, would not… Mary Doria Russell
“ As many as thirty or as few as ten years later, lying exhausted and still, eyes open in the dark long after the three suns of Rakhat had set, no longer bleeding, past the vomiting, enough beyond the s… Mary Doria Russell
“ The new fashions sold in departmentstores had thrown skilled American seamstresses out of work, you see.They’d been displaced by immigrant girls doing piecework for a pittancein terrible sweatshops. I… Mary Doria Russell
“ Sadie was at his side when the old desire to leave everything behind rose up in him again.Suppose . . . he began. Suppose . . .Then he moved on, one last time. Mary Doria Russell
“ God's got a lot of explaining to do. Of course, God never explains. When life breaks your heart, you're just supposed to pick up the pieces and start all over, I guess. Mary Doria Russell
“ The single craziest thing about being a priest, he’d found, was that celibacy was simultaneously the most private and most public aspect of his life. One of his linguistics professors, a man named Sam… Mary Doria Russell
“ Shall I tell you why young men love war? . . . In peace, there are a hundred questions with a thousand answers! In war, there is only one question with one right answer. . . . Going to war makes you a… Mary Doria Russell
“ Maybe that's the way to tell the dangerous men from the good ones. A dreamer of the day is dangerous when he believes that others are less: less than their own best selves and certainly less than he i… Mary Doria Russell
“ What is it in humans that makes us so eager to believe ill of one another? ... What makes us so hungry for it? Failed idealism, he suspected. We disappoint ourselves and then look around for other fai… Mary Doria Russell
“ He had offered some of his own background. A youth in the South. An education in the North. Bred for life in the East. Trying not to die in the West. Mary Doria Russell
“ She was alone and destitute in a world of pointless carnage. By an eight-hundred-year-old Sepahrdic tradition she ad been since the age of twelve and a half bogeret l'reshut nafsha--an adult wit autho… Mary Doria Russell
