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

It's really quite simple. Mr. Isinglass robbed my father, destroyed my mother, exiled my brothers, and ruined me. If I catch him asleep I'll kill him. I do hope you like this pudding. I had to ride quite a way to find the plums.

Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out books from the place that should, by definition, be books' own home: the library.

Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams

The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.

A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae

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