My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.
Louis L'AmourHow long is a girl a child? She is a child, and then one morning you wake up she's a woman, and a dozen different people of whom you recognize none.
Louis L'AmourIt is an old custom of these people to pick up a stone and toss it on the pile. Perhaps it is a symbolical lightening of the load they carry, perhaps a small offering to the gods of the trails.
Louis L'AmourLuck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that.
Louis L'Amour