Quotes by Zane Grey

“I need this wild life, this freedom.”

“Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.”

“Instantly a thick blackness seemed to enfold her and silence as of a dead world settled down upon her. Drowsy as she was she could not close her eyes nor refrain from listening. Darkness and silenc...”

“The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.”

“Pride would never be her ally.”

“What is writing but an expression of my own life?”

“Jealousy is an unjust and stifling thing.”

“Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.”

“When I envied a man's spurs then they were indeed worth coveting.”

“I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.”

“We'll use a signal I have tried and found far-reaching and easy to yell. Waa-hoo!”

“It was the elision of the weaker element — the survival of the fittest; and some, indeed very many, mothers must lose their sons that way.”

“If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.”

“To bear up under loss — to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief — to be victor over anger — to smile when tears are close — to resist evil men and base instincts — to hate hate ...”

“Lassiter, the men of my creed are unnaturally cruel. To my everlasting sorrow I confess it. They have been driven, hated, scourged till their hearts have hardened. But we women hope and pray for th...”

“I know Mormons. I’ve seen their women’s strange love en’ patience en’ sacrifice an’ silence en’ whet I call madness for their idea of God. An’ over against that I’ve seen the tricks of men. They wo...”

“You know, in every Mormon village there are women who seem mysterious to us, but about Milly there was more than the ordinary mystery. When she came to Cottonwoods she had a beautiful little girl w...”

“Remembering Jane’s accusation of bitterness, he tried hard to put aside his rancor in judging Tull. But it was bitter knowledge that made him see the truth. He had felt the shadow of an unseen hand...”

“For hand in glove with that power was an insatiate greed; they were one and the same.”

“He called Tull a binder of women, a callous beast who hid behind a mock mantle of righteousness—an’ the last an’ lowest coward on the face of the earth. To prey on weak women through their religion...”