Wade Garrison's Promise Quotes

“Everything we do brings about a change in us.  Some a little more than others, and some a whole lot more.  Some are good changes, and some bad.”
― Richard Greene, Wade Garrison's Promise

“He’d sit by the fire in his lodge or teepee and tell his children and grandchildren how you killed them Apache with the long rifle at a great distance.  Then they would tell their children and grandchildren down the generations keeping the memory of you and him alive.  Indian's way of being immortal, I suppose.” He”
― Richard Greene, Wade Garrison's Promise

“The next morning came early at the Circle T Ranch.  The sun had begun its climb over the eastern hills, greeted by the clang of the breakfast bell mixed with the roosters’ crows and barking dogs.  Wade pushed back his blanket and, feeling the early September chill, wished someone had built a fire in the pot-bellied stove a few feet away. Looking half-asleep, Emmett sat up and stared out the window at the barn and corral, wishing he could crawl back under the covers.  He turned from the window, looked at Wade under his covers, and told him it was time to get up. Getting out of bed, he grabbed his pants from a peg on the wall next to his bunk and headed for the outhouse dressed in his faded red underwear. Wade tossed his covers back, greeted by the same chilly morning that greeted Emmett.  He put his feet on the cold wooden floor, stood, took his pants off the peg, and slipped into them.  Pulling his suspenders up, he followed Emmett and the others out back to take his turn. Wade”
― Richard Greene, Wade Garrison's Promise