The Homesman Quotes

“The weather wouldn't settle down. It would rain cats and dogs, then stop, then drip awhile, then stop while it made up its mind what to do next.”
― Glendon Swarthout, The Homesman

“You shut your door to these poor women," he said so they could hear him, "and you'll answer for it the rest of your lives. You won't sleep. You'll choke on drinks. The food you eat'll block up your bowels and you'll die of your own shit.”
― Glendon Swarthout, The Homesman

“Tears were a women's guns, to be shed when no other weapon would work.”
― Glendon Swarthout, The Homesman

“If others fell by the wayside, dear women and strong, loved by men, how had she, single and unloved, kept her sanity?”
― Glendon Swarthout, The Homesman