Isaac didn’t understand heartache. Or regret or longing or divided loyalties. Or anger or shattered trust or betrayal. Such things had no clarity. They involved expectations of another’s behavior, and...
Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.
I would not have voted for the man, Doc admitted, but this— He lifted a fine-boned hand toward the street, where small groups of Cow Boys were now tearing down Allen on horseback, shooting at the sky...
I had enjoyed something that did not belong to me, you see. When it was taken away, I was disappointed but not harmed.
Honey, Bessie’s mamma used to say, politicians and judges and coppers are money-grubbing thieves. They’ll screw you, and rob you, and win elections for doing it, but there’s no way around them. Smile...
For five weeks, the Associated Press had provided the world with lurid coverage of the attack on Virgil Earp, which was labeled Cow Boy revenge for what was being called the Gunfight at the O.K. Corra...
Every one of them has a story, and every story begins with a man who failed her. A husband who came home from the war, good for nothin' but drink. A father who didn't come home at all, or a stepfather...
Every one of them [prostitutes] has a story, and every story begins with a man who failed her. A husband who came home from the war, good for nothin' but drink. A father who didn't come home at all, o...
Et diye yedikleriniz meydan okuyor, et diye yedikleriniz baş kaldırıyor, et diye yedikleriniz savaşıyor! Et diye yediklerinizin nefesi ensenizde...
Dust rises at every step, fine as flour. It is dried river silt, that dust. Add water, and the soil is so fertile that you could plant a pencil and harvest a book.
Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I’m presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.
All the muscles of the palms had been carefully cut from the bones, doubling the length of the fingers, and Sandoz’s hands reminded John of childhood Halloween skeletons.
Add water, and the soil is so fertile that you could plant a pencil and harvest a book.
Now here’s my idea about God. I think we’re like the cat. I think that God is like the man outside the box. I think that if the cat believes in the man, the man is there. And if the cat is an atheist,...
It is the human condition to ask questions like Anne’s last night and to receive no plain answers, he said. Perhaps this is because we can’t understand the answers, because we are incapable of knowing...
It is a scholar’s task to find patterns in nature or cycles in history. Initially, it’s no different from finding portraits of animals and heroes in the stars. The question is, Have you discovered a p...
In the past few years, he’d worked as a part-time policeman in a string of Kansas cow towns. Each time he was sworn in, he made an effort to study the ordinances he was supposed to enforce, but he was...
I still have a headache powder saved up,
How long ago did she die, Wyatt? Morgan pressed. Is it nine years now?Eight, Wyatt said, halfway between stubborn and sad. I promised to love her all my life, Morg. I meant to keep my word.That shut M...
Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money. (64)