Cowboy Crossing Box Set Books 1-8 Quotes

“the risk that you took being on the rocks, the danger and excitement, was a physical danger and excitement. But isn’t it almost the same as risking your emotions? Of living without fear? Of loving without fear? Doesn’t it take bravery to open your heart and give everything you have to someone? Isn’t that risky? Isn’t that a risk that’s almost as dangerous as clinging to a sheer rock wall, with no safety rope attached? How can you do one and shy away from the other?”
― Jessie Gussman, Cowboy Crossing Box Set Books 1-8

“see Shane die, not so you could protect yourself from any more pain, but so that you could know to live harder, give more, be braver, because life is short and opportunities to love and laugh and live are soon gone?”
― Jessie Gussman, Cowboy Crossing Box Set Books 1-8

“all your life, you want to do things so that people can look at you and follow you and do what you’re doing, because you’re doing it to the best of your ability. Living. But all of your living, all of your life, is focused on dying. Because that’s how you’re going to end. That’s how everyone ends. You want it to be done well.”
― Jessie Gussman, Cowboy Crossing Box Set Books 1-8

“I’m not going to withdraw or get hard or cynical. I’m going to keep getting up and going out and loving freely, giving kindness liberally, and trusting without reservation.”
― Jessie Gussman, Cowboy Crossing Box Set Books 1-8