“Now, if you dont know Bonnie Blue Flag, then Dixie will do nicely Tom began, cocking the pistol. Jesse stared, mouth agape at the carnage in the room. NOW PLAY! Tom exploded.”

“Id prefer Bonnie Blue Flag, if you take requests Tom had turned and rested his elbows on the bar. His hand was inches from the Colt. These were the men he was looking for.”

“I think the best way I can put it, Tom summarized, was what I was once told that a Confederate prisoner said to his Union captor. The Yank said: Why do you fight us so hard, Reb?, and his prisoner ...”

“Slaughter personified to him every evil of this war. It would never end for Tom until he had dealt with Slaughter. His chance had been delayed last night. The next time he encountered the Colonel, ...”

“It looks like youll be dying in Hellfire after all, Captain! Slaughter shouted. Just like your family in that Georgia shack did. Ha! Oh yes, I heard their screams inside! It was music to my ears! T...”

“Clinton leaned in close, breath stinking. Im a well-compensated lawman, Reb. Lets leave it at that. Youll never prove anything else. Youre no lawman. You are a whore, Tom growled.”

“Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation. (p.232)”

“Do you think I'm pretty?I think you're beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.”

“As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“Every great love starts with a great story...”

“I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extend...”

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”