Live through it," Call said. "That's all we can do.

I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it.

In times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational.

The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight.

Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams

-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.