An Obvious Fact (Walt Longmire #12)

by Craig Johnson

There wasn’t anything more to say, so I didn’t.

That’s the thing about comforting—it’s almost more important to know when not to talk.

“‘My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built.’”

Sometimes it was like that, I suppose; some people become so important in your life that they’re almost like a trademark, but then they’re gone. Sometimes they might reappear, but they’re nothing at all like what you’ve assembled in your mind since their departure; sometimes you can’t even stand them anymore, because they break up the legend and nothing dies harder than a good, personal legend.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.’”

a matching of flesh and metal resulting in a series of explosions that echoed off the hills like a paradiddle of percussive beats.

Contrary to popular belief, the method Holmes uses is abduction, not deduction. Abductive reasoning is based on conclusions drawn from observation, whereas deduction is a conclusion drawn from available data and is always true.”

you have to always be ready to rethink your abductions in the face of the evolving information in any case.”

“I think he’s stupid enough to open a wholesale stupid store and sell franchises.”

The door closed, and he was gone into the twilight of early evening like an afterthought.