“In all such local tragedies time works like a damp brush on water color. The sharp edges blur, the ache goes out of it, the colors melt together, and from the many separated lines a solid gray emerges.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“Where do we go when we die? he said.
- I don’t know, the man said. Where are we now?”
― Cities of the Plain
- I don’t know, the man said. Where are we now?”
― Cities of the Plain
“My daddy once told me that some of the most miserable people he ever knew were the ones that finally got what they’d always wanted.”
― Cities of the Plain
― Cities of the Plain
“You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else.”
― The Blade Itself
― The Blade Itself
“He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men.”
― Lonesome Dove
― Lonesome Dove
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