In a Handful of Dust Quotes

“In a world like this, you pay it forward, 'cause more than likely you didn't deserve it when you got it the first time.”
― Mindy McGinnis, In a Handful of Dust

“It's going to be hard––everything worth doing is.”
― Mindy McGinnis, In a Handful of Dust

“We hear you shoot like a man.”

“You heard wrong,” Lynn said coldly. “I shoot like a woman.”
― Mindy McGinnis, In a Handful of Dust

“That’s life, little one—lots of little maybes and what ifs all lined up in a row. And if you put your mind to following some of them that never came about, you’ll get lost and not find your way back to the way it really is.”
― Mindy McGinnis, In a Handful of Dust

“Why couldn’t I want something easy?”

“Because that’s not like you. You’ve always been fond of the difficult.”

“True enough. I like you, after all.”
― Mindy McGinnis, In a Handful of Dust

“I’ve been trying to do better about killing people,” Lynn said. “Then fate puts you in my path.”
― Mindy McGinnis, In a Handful of Dust

“They found each other's hands in the dark, and an angel with chipped marble wings watched over them as they slept.”
― Mindy McGinnis, In a Handful of Dust

“But the gray ridge of the mountains that sliced through the map was a weight on her heart, an obstacle to be met.”
― Mindy McGinnis, In a Handful of Dust

“I want this, I do, but the bigness of the world ... it ... it kinda scares the shit out of me.”
― Mindy McGinnis, In a Handful of Dust

“You're Lucy, my little one, and that is no small thing.”
― Mindy McGinnis, In a Handful of Dust

“But Lucy had grown up safe and sheltered, and she believed people were good. "I trust him," she said, holding his gaze. What she didn't add was that she'd hold the devil's hand if he offered to help her over the mountains.”
― Mindy McGinnis, In a Handful of Dust

“If you have something, someone will take it from you, and with the loss comes suffering. It's best to be beholden to nothing.”
― Mindy McGinnis, In a Handful of Dust