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“Phoebe realized how very wrong she’d been about this house, this family. It was far darker, more dangerous than the places she’d grown up in. In the dingy little apartments her mother rented, every...”
“Once started, love couldn't easily be stopped.”
“The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.”
“When we die, our bodies turn to dust,” he says. “If you were nobody of consequence, you're forgotten unless you do something worth remembering.” When he looks my way, I purse my lips and look down....”
“You go on. You just go on. There's nothing more to it, and there's no trick to make it easier. You just go on.""What do you find on the other side? When you go on?"She shrugged. "Your life again. W...”
“How about a kiss?”“Are you man enough to try?” she asked.”
“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.”
“A man that sleeps all night wastes too much of life.”
“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.”
“For in today’s generation of teenagers finding acceptance is hard, especially for those who dare to be different-then it’s impossible.”
“I lost my family,” he says softly. The tone of his voice justifies my earlier regret. “If you have nothing to love, you have nothing to lose. Even your own life becomes meaningless.”
“One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.”
“You probably drink too much. If you hand me that bottle, I'll reduce your temptations. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae”
“Don't be trying to give back pain for pain...You can't get even measures in business like this.”
“He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry...”
“But, if one cuts more deeply, the lonesome dove is Newt, a lonely teenager who is the unacknowledged son of Captain Call and a kindly whore named Maggie, who is now dead. So the central theme of th...”
“For most of the hours of the day—and most of the months of the year—the sun had the town trapped deep in dust, far out in the chaparral flats, a heaven for snakes and horned toads, roadrunners and ...”
“WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were havi...”
“Who asked them dern pigs?” he said. “I guess they tracked us,” Augustus said. “They’re enterprising pigs.”
