Lando (Sacketts Book 8)

by Louis L'Amour

No man cuts himself free of old ties without regret; even scenes of hardship and sadness possess the warmth of familiarity, and within each of us there is a love for the known.

On jungle rivers mosquitoes will swarm around a white man before going near a native, because a white man uses more salt.”

“Mr. Sackett, face a man with a gun or a sword, but beware of bookkeepers. They will destroy you, Sackett. They will destroy you.”

at night the prairie wolves that sang the moon out of the sky.

Odd thing, I’d never thought of my pa as a person. I expect a child rarely does think of his parents that way. They are a father and a mother, but a body rarely thinks of them as having hopes, dreams, ambitions and desires and loves.

It is wrong to believe that such men suffer in the conscience for what they do … it is only regret at being caught that troubles them. And they never admit it was any fault of their own … it was always chance, bad luck.… The criminal does not regret his crime, he only regrets failure.