Doc seemed to gather himself to say something important, and spoke as firmly as he could, though his voice was somewhere between a whisper and a whine. Wyatt, I cannot make you another denture. No mor...
Cubs fan, John muttered. The Chicagoan’s curse. Sandoz pushed a towel aside, eyes wide. How bad? Anybody can have a couple of lousy centuries.
Certainly, nobody imagined that Mr. Lincoln would order an armed invasion over the affair. When he did exactly that, the entire South exploded with defiance and patriotism, cheering the new nation—sov...
At the risk of descent into unscientific generalization, I must report to you that ninety percent of Texans give the other ten percent a bad name, he told Martha Anne
Alice was pretty enough and played piano well, but she was educated in excess of a lady’s requirements. She was also possessed of a quiet, stubborn strength of character that had discouraged beaux les...
Ah, Sofia, darlin'! On my best days, I believe in Him with all my heart.
After all, he thought, the one thing an agnostic knows for sure is: you never know.
After all, Ignatius of Loyola, a soldier who had killed and whored and made a thorough mess of his soul, said you could judge prayer worthwhile simply if you could act more decently, think more clearl...
Doc's idea of clarifyin' a point of contention came awful close to spitting in a man's eye.
Until you’ve been there, you can’t know what it’s like to hold yourself to promises you made in good faith a long time ago.
It seemed entirely possible to him that religion and literature and art and music were all merely side effects of a brain structure that comes into the world ready to make language out of noise, sense...
Guess—You know how people say, Don’t borrow trouble? Well, said Morgan, I guess it’s the opposite of that. Doc is borrowing happiness. The
An insouciant flip of the wrist—
You know, I’ve always thought it was a tactical mistake for God to love us in the aggregate, when Satan is willing to make a special effort to seduce each of us separately.
You know how people say, Don't borrow trouble? Well, said Morgan, I guess it's the opposite of that. Doc is borrowing happiness.
You are young, Father Iron Horse, and you have a young man’s vices. Certainty. Shortsightedness. Contempt for pragmatism.
Wyatt, I’m from Chicago, Eddie told him. Let me explain politics to you.
Why, he had once wondered, would a perfect God create the universe? To be generous with it, he believed now. For the pleasure of seeing pure gifts appreciated. Maybe that’s what it meant to find God:...
When she finished, no one clapped or even breathed, for they were still inside that sacred place that music can sometimes create.
What he experienced was not so much the beginning of love as a cessation of pain.