37 quotes found
“It's happiness to see you.”
“Once started, love couldn't easily be stopped.”
“I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad.”
“The best to do with a death was to move on from it.”
“A man that sleeps all night wastes too much of life.”
“The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.”
“It was something, what must go through men's mind where women were concerned, to cause them to behave so strangely.”
“They probably think the sun won't come up unless you're there to allow it.”
“Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong sid...”
“Of all the women he knew, she had meant the most; and was the one person in his life he felt he had missed, in some ways.”
“It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble.”
“You should marry me", he said. "I will be good to you. I am not like these men. I have manners. You would see how kind I would be. I would never leave you. You could have an easy life.”
“Me and Call have always liked to get where we started for, even if it don't make a damn bit of sense.”
“He liked to get off by himself, a mile or so from camp, and listen to the country, not the men.”
“It was something he had always done - moved apart, so he could be alone and think things or a little.”
“She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met a woman.”
“He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.”
“The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.”
“It's funny, leaving a place, ain't it?" he said. "You never do know when you'll get back.”
“It doesn't do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to.”
“A sleeping man would miss the best of the evening, and the moonrise as well.”
“Getting up early and feeling awake was the one skill he had never truly perfected - he got up, of course, but it never felt natural.”
