Such is the life and death of a good cowboy.

Henpecked, the great Wyatt Earp,” Cody said. “You evidently don’t know Jessie,” Wyatt said. “If she’s in one of her tempers she’d put a hyena to flight ...

He might die, but at least he could fight first, and not simply pass his days shaking at the expectation of slaughter.

The whole point of loyalty was not to change: stick with those who stuck with you.

If you only come face-to-face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it’s bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day—that way they ain’t usually much worse than a dry shave.

He liked to get off by himself, a mile or so from camp, and listen to the country, not the men.

It doesn’t do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to,” Clara said. “It’s just a waste.

Nothing good ever comes without a price.

It seemed to him harder, as he got older, to find a simple way of life.

She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met a woman.

It's very peculiar, the situations life presents one with, Father Geoff reflected.

He loved the way she smelled in the mornings; he liked to sniff at her shoulders or her throat.

Once started, love couldn't easily be stopped.

Of all the women he knew, she had meant the most; and was the one person in his life he felt he had missed, in some ways.

Figure the reason you don’t have much to say is you probably never met a man who liked to hear a woman talk.

A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.

Jake, you’re a dern grasshopper,” Augustus said. “You ride in yesterday talking Montana, and today you’re talking California.

I don’t claim to know much: cards, fucking, and dentistry about covers it,” Doc said.

Well, boys," Long Bill said. "I guess here's where I quit rangering. It's rare sport, but it ain't quite safe.

No half measures,” he muttered several times. It was his personal motto; he intended to have it latinised and put on a crest.

I pride myself on being able to put up with a lot,” Nellie said. “But bagpipers are pretty much my limit.

Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.

Do you know what it means to be heartbroken?...It means your heart isn't whole, so you can't really do anything wholeheartedly.

There seem to be no way he could stop anything that was happening, although it all felt wrong.