Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)

by Larry McMurtry

that morning he had awoke with no plans except to be a cowboy,

LORENA HAD STOPPED expecting ever to be surprised, least of all by a man, and then Jake Spoon walked in the door and surprised her.

“He drank whiskey and talked the Bible too, and I like a man that does one thing or the other.

“It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living,” Augustus said. “I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.”