“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 ...”

“The back barn door opened, and in walked a vision in a billowing green dress. As she led in her mare, Mr. McBrides voice faded away as Toms total attention turned to the girl. About twenty-one or t...”

“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, ...”

“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.”

“Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.”

“I know that the whole pointthe only pointis tofind the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse tolet them go.”

“No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work.”

“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”

“Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.”

“She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”