You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

A dream is not a very safe thing to be near... I know; I had one once. It's like a loaded pistol with a hair trigger: if it stays alive long enough, somebody is going to be hurt. But if it's a good dream, it's worth it.

Did you ever have a sister? did you?

Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.

I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books.

You men,' she says. 'You durn men.

We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.