51 quotes found
“And if revenge was all I had, then I was goddamned if it wouldnt be enough.”
“what I like and what I needs two different things.”
“That got me to laughing too. His laughter, like his yelling, got into you until you was right soaked with it. So you couldnt help yourself. But it felt good. Light. I tell you, I hadnt felt like th...”
“Cant count on no miracles. Sometimes, you just got to have a plan.”
“The terrible price of living, aint it? To live through others dying?”
“not knowing what I needed to do or where I needed to go, I knew all the same that I was going in the right direction.”
“Dont matter none how bad it gets sometimes. You can always turn this shit around.”
“Aint nothing scarier than someone with nothing.”
“I appreciate your thinking on me, marshal, but ain’t no trouble of his what ain’t trouble of mine, too.”
“Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climat...”
“There were a lot of these middle-aged single types in the neighborhood, shipwrecked by every kind of catastrophe, but she was one of the few who didn't have children, who lived alone, who was still...”
“Seems a lot of men never saw one such as me. A girl what could keep up and fight and ride and curse with the best of them. A girl what ain’t trapped in some dress or some house or some bed. A girl ...”
“No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.”
“But wasn’t time for what was. Was time to settle up the future.”
“And in the silence what followed, I reckon our eyes had some long conversation our mouths could’ve never talked through. Some long, looking talk about things gone and long since said. About cries o...”
“Maybe I’d lost something. Maybe I’d lost a lot—more, even, than I could suffer—but I still had my own self. And lonesome as I might be, wasn’t no force on Earth or from above what could make me less.”
“But tell you true, I honestly didn’t think nothing about the Green Man beefing that posse. Was just men and the world’s full of them.”
“In terms of the real quality of a human being, only when suffering comes, when pain comes, does a man stand up as a human being. You can see great human beings surface only when the society is real...”
“wasn’t no bit of me willing to ride shotgun to my own funeral.”
“I was the luckiest girl. Don’t you think because I didn’t have no proper man or husband I was anything else. Wasn’t no place I’d rather be than right there. Even now, I pine for that uncomfortable ...”
