It came to Morgan that Nicholas must have been a beaten boy, too, and that meant Grampa Earp was, as well. Which was no surprise, really, when Morg thought about that mean old man. How many sons were...
I suppose I should warn you, Padre. In the absence of male supervision, my mother has become a revolutionary. ~Renzo Leoni
I honestly don’t know if the world would be better or worse if we all held ourselves to the vows of our youth.
I do not want to spend another of whatever I have left bein' scared. I can't carry the fear anymore. Not mine. Not yours. I have to lay that burden down.
I am damned if I will spend my time listenin' to ungrammatical, repetitious, imbecilic nonsense without a challenge!
Home, he said softly. If there is a more beautiful word in any language, I do not know it.
He wondered then if Jesus expected gratitude as Lazarus emerged, stinking, from the crypt. Maybe Lazarus was a disappointment to everyone, too.
The past was not dead but alive, and important by virtue of the very invisibility of its influence.
She wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.
When a man beats his boy, he wants a son who won't buck him. He's trying to make a coward. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it works.And the hundredth boy?We can go either way. Kill the old man, or...
Whatever you worship will consume you, Dong-Sing wrote one week. Bob Wright worships money. Wyatt Earp worships justice. Eddie Foy worships applause. Doc worships home and family, as I do. How will th...
There's an old Jewish story that says in the beginning God was everywhere and everything, a totality. But to make creation, God had to remove himself from some part of the universe, so something besid...
There is simply no alternative. We have to know them.
The world is filled with unreasonable hate. What's wrong with unreasonable love?
The Elder is called Dee, first-born, of the Yarbrough lineage, whose landname is VaWaco.
So much of what he knew about religion struck him as total bullshit; he was disarmed when the fathers freely admitted that some stories were in fact pious fictions. But, judging his character, they da...
One thing I can say for certain. There�'s just no telling whom God will take a liking to.
I want to belong with someone. I want to feel at the center of something, and not the edge. I want children and grandchildren. I don't want to grow old and die, knowing that when I die, there will be...
How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking? He said nothing more that day, but Ha’anala spent hours considering his words. A soul, she decided, was the most real part of a person, and to discov...
Home...if there is a more beautiful word in any language, I do not know it.