Terry > Terry's Quotes

“Few people knew the shadowy history of the Special Operations Group that had operated out of Laos, but the numbers said it all: For every American Special Forces soldier that was lost, the North Vietnamese lost between 100 and 150 troops. The Bear had been a part of one of the most effective killing machines on either side of the war.”
― Craig Johnson, The Walt Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set Volume 1-4

“Comforting to know that we’re the species that feels the most pain.”
― Craig Johnson, The Walt Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set Volume 1-4

“Aristotle said that some minds are not vases to be filled, but fires to be lit.”
― Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish

“It's only pre-marital sex if you plan on getting married.”
― Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish

“Revenge is a dish best served cold.”
― Craig Johnson, The Walt Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set Volume 1-4

“Good friends are the ones who can remain close without losing their ability to”
― Craig Johnson, The Walt Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set Volume 1-4

“A life without friends means death without company. (Adiskidegabeko bizita, auzogabeko heriotza.) —BASQUE PROVERB”
― Craig Johnson, The Walt Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set Volume 1-4

“I thought about Maggie and how passion was a difficult thing to sustain, but that friendship had a pace that could go on forever.”
― Craig Johnson, Death Without Company

“everything to do with women is foolish and, therefore, absolutely essential.”
― Craig Johnson, The Walt Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set Volume 1-4

“I should protect and cherish the young, the old, and the infirm, because at some point I would be all of these things before my own journey ended.”
― Craig Johnson, The Dark Horse

“Kind of like the tree that falls in the forest when nobody’s around? I mean, if nobody remembers the history, did it still happen?”
― Craig Johnson, The Dark Horse

“I thought about how we tilled and cultivated the land, planted trees on it, fenced it, built houses on it, and did everything we could to hold off the eternity of distance—anything to give the landscape some sort of human scale. No matter what we did to try and form the West, however, the West inevitably formed us instead.”
― Craig Johnson, The Dark Horse

“Our society, our culture, and our humanity depend on never crossing certain lines,”
― Craig Johnson, Junkyard Dogs

“When you go to a dogfight, it’s always good to bring the meanest bitch.”
― Craig Johnson, Junkyard Dogs

“Contrary to popular belief, there aren’t that many descriptions of hell in the Bible, and the majority of images most people carry around in their heads are from the fourteenth-century poem, which means that our contemporary view of hell is actually from the Middle Ages.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“Life is like that.” He flipped through a few more limp pages. “You collect things as you go—the things you think are important—and soon they weigh you down until you realize that these things you cared so much about mean nothing at all. Our natures are our natures.” He grunted. “And they are all we are left with.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“It all came down to judging—if you were a good judge of the man in front of you, you might survive; if not, then you were the honored dead.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“It’s never about who’s the fastest, strongest, toughest—it’s always about who, when everyone else would pause, will commit.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“Talking with people was more confusing than being confused by yourself.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“This is how it ends with everyone. You fall—you don’t get back up.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“There is no shame in it, becoming what your nature says you must be.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“nature hates a vacuum and strange things are drawn into empty places; sometimes oddities survive where nothing else can.”
― Craig Johnson, A Serpent's Tooth

“Everybody in this county knows your flavor, Walt Longmire.”
― Craig Johnson, A Serpent's Tooth

“don’t care how big they are, boys; they can’t do anything if you get ’em up off the ground.”
― Craig Johnson, A Serpent's Tooth

“I sometimes think that it’s not our enemies that we resent in life, but rather friends we have who stood quietly by and did nothing.”
― Craig Johnson, A Serpent's Tooth

“cynic is the man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― Craig Johnson, A Serpent's Tooth

“When I hired him I told him two things: no man has any sense till age thirty-five and damn few afterwards . . .” “Amen to that, and the other?” “Never go after a man to arrest him unless you are certain you are legally right, but then arrest him or die.”
― Craig Johnson, Any Other Name

“he’s like a gun; once you point him and pull the trigger, it’s too late to change your mind.”
― Craig Johnson, Any Other Name

“With more than thirty thousand suicides a year, the act is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States.”
― Craig Johnson, Any Other Name

“Reports of missing persons have increased sixfold in the last twenty-five years, from roughly 150,000 in 1980 to 900,000 this year . . . More than 2,000 a day.”
― Craig Johnson, Any Other Name