Robert Cox

“Held on to me like I was a baby. And she kept crying. So many tears. My clothes and hair were soaked with her tears. It was, like, my mother had given me a grief shower, you know? Like she’d baptized me with her pain.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“My main skills are talking and cooking biscuits,' Augustus said. 'And getting drunk on the porch.”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

“It must be a poor life that achieves freedom from fear”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation

“The first turkey that ever came to me on the ground did it a long time ago. I sat there with my hands shaking and my breath short and my heart hammering so hard I could not understand why he could not hear it. The last turkey that came to me last spring had exactly the same effect, and the day that this does not happen to me is the day that I quit.”
― Tom Kelly