“Hell, I'll be safest pretending I'm a boy the rest of my life. The frontier ain't for the faint of heart, and it certainly ain't kind to women. Sometimes I think the whole world's 'gainst us.”

“It is funny how the things we hate are the things we miss most when they are gone”

“Sure, sometimes you gotta let things go, but other times you can't till you set things right. And I know darn well it ain't worth arguing with a preacher. The only truths they believe are their own...”

“It shows damn near everything. I's been hiding my breasts for so long, I half forgot I had 'em.”

“He sips his drink and it leaves his handlebar mustache dripping like a cattle dog come outta a river.”

“A strong drink can numb the soul as good as any prayer”

“Live with God, have faith in God it is true happiness”

“To serve means to dedicate or devote yourself fully to a certain course and to please the person you are serving in everything”

“When I was a boy of seven or eight I read a novel untitled "Abafi" The Son of Aba a Servian translation from the Hungarian of Josika, a writer of renown. The lessons it teaches are much like thos...”

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what...”

“His pen spoke more to her than he ever did.In the war of words, some are unwritten and some are unspoken.”

“How might I get over this? How would I be able to overlook the way he used to be with me? How could I overlook that his fingers touched my indiscernible soul before it twisted my nipples? How might...”