A Serpent's Tooth Quotes

“I've always been taught that religion is supposed to be a comfort to people, not a threat. I think these people have perverted something that's supposed to be holy and turned it into a weapon.”
― 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

“Everybody in this county knows your flavor, Walt Longmire.”
― 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

“he knew all my caches and clichés—and pulled out an extra box of shells. “What other weapons do we have?” I started the Bullet and pulled the gear selector down into drive. “Steadfast resolution.” I turned and looked at him, not as if he would take the option, but it had to be said. “If you want out, now would be the time.” He actually laughed as he reloaded the round. “I try never to miss an episode of Steadfast Resolution—it is my favorite program.” •”
― Craig Johnson, A Serpent's Tooth

“looking at the piles around us—they were like literary land mines just waiting to explode minds.”
― Craig Johnson, A Serpent's Tooth

“all her mother’s pains and benefits . . .’” She faltered, and I continued the Shakespeare for her. “‘To laughter and contempt, that she may feel / How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is / To have a thankless child.”
― Craig Johnson, A Serpent's Tooth

“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

“As the saying goes, a cynic is the man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― 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

“She was classic Wyoming, that indiscriminate age between thirty and a hundred where the women find a comfort for themselves and just settle in.”
― Craig Johnson, A Serpent's Tooth

“Tensleep and No Rest, Jack R. Gage, first printing and it’s signed; do you know”
― Craig Johnson, A Serpent's Tooth

“I noticed the Cheyenne Nation drifting in the door behind me like casual death, the shotgun trailing behind his leg completely unnoticeable.”
― Craig Johnson, A Serpent's Tooth

“Belle Fourche, South Dakota, is the geographic center of the United States.”
― Craig Johnson, A Serpent's Tooth

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― Craig Johnson, A Serpent's Tooth

“He was a drunkard.”
― Craig Johnson, A Serpent's Tooth

“I steered us across a bridge that had been made from an old freight car, a common practice in our part of the world, and pulled up to a number of strands of barbed wire with a steel sign affixed, which read KEEP OUT, PRIVATE PROPERTY, followed by TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED. I slowed the truck to a stop and looked at the shiners riding shotgun. “Feel like doing something unlawful?” She cracked the passenger door open and climbed out. “Always, and all ways.”
― Craig Johnson, A Serpent's Tooth

“I’ve always been taught that religion is supposed to be a comfort to people, not a threat. I think these people have perverted something that’s supposed to be holy and turned it into a weapon.”
― Craig Johnson, A Serpent's Tooth

“Like anything else, I think organized religion, like most human endeavors, is good when it’s doing good and I think it’s bad when it’s doing bad.”
― Craig Johnson, A Serpent's Tooth

“Mark Twain’s adage: thunder is impressive, thunder is loud, but it’s lightning that gets the job done, even in one-mile-an-hour increments.”
― Craig Johnson, A Serpent's Tooth

“My undersheriff readjusted herself, the irony of her squeaking gunbelt underlying her next statement. “Who you wanna shoot?” He sat there under her interrogation. “Nobody in particular; I just want to be left alone.” “I get like that sometimes.” I laughed. She ignored me. “Cord, there are people out there who are good at believing things and following orders, and then there’s the rest of us, the ones who have urges and get mad about shit; the ones who ask questions. I’m one of those people, and I think I turned out all right.” She pointed a loaded finger at me. “Shut the fuck up.” “I didn’t say anything.” “. . . Anyway.” Her eyes softened as she studied him. “Just so you know; there’s room for all of us.” I wanted to kiss her but just kept driving as the afternoon sun cast rays across the rolling hills in that horizontal light like clean windows. •”
― Craig Johnson, A Serpent's Tooth

“Vic interrupted. “Vann, Tim here was telling me about your wonderful talent, the one with dogs?” He turned back to me, nodding with a great deal of enthusiasm. “In my free time, I teach dogs how to talk. I use mental telepathy and can get them to say words like hello, squirrel, and hamburger.” •”
― Craig Johnson, A Serpent's Tooth

“I don’t like funerals, and a while ago I just stopped going to them. I think the ceremony is a form of denial, and when my wife died and my daughter, Cady, informed me that she was unaware of any instance where going to somebody’s funeral ever brought them back, I just about gave it up.”
― Craig Johnson, A Serpent's Tooth

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― Craig Johnson, A Serpent's Tooth

“Where do they get parts on a Sunday; Buell Hardware is closed.” Her eyes narrowed. “I get them the supplies, Walter. The Lord provides, but I don’t think that extends to plumbing parts.”
― Craig Johnson, A Serpent's Tooth

“sidewinder. I didn’t even bother pretending”
― Craig Johnson, A Serpent's Tooth

“My eyes closed again for what I thought was only a moment and when I opened them she was gone and a different head, panting with a different sort of breath and with a worried look on his long face, was hanging over me. Unsure, he slathered a lick on the side of my head with a tongue as wide as a paperback, correct in the belief that a good kiss made everything better—well, almost everything.”
― Craig Johnson, A Serpent's Tooth