The Coming of Crow Quotes

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― Joel Jenkins, The Coming of Crow

“This hound, it was kept with me in the hold of the Far Traveler. It is an ancient evil thing drawn from the voids of space and bound to earth by my father. It is a thing that is pure evil and it cannot be slain by earthly weapons.”
― Joel Jenkins, The Coming of Crow

“Lone Crow knew better than to draw upon one Tong hatchetman, let alone three. Yet there he was, standing in the streets of Little China, hand resting on his eagle-butted Colt revolver, facing down three fighting men of the Hop Sing Tong.”
― Joel Jenkins, The Coming of Crow

“Still, the badger-warrior’s momentum kept him running forward and Crow feared that upraised sword might be able to cleave either he or Ferguson in twain.”
― Joel Jenkins, The Coming of Crow

“A terrified mauk went shrieking to her knees and the warrior’s narrow eyes appraised her with glittering intensity”
― Joel Jenkins, The Coming of Crow

“Standing on the roof of a shanty, built just below Buena’s tent was a Chinese man dressed in a pien-fu, a long tunic that fell to the knee of his underlying trousers.”
― Joel Jenkins, The Coming of Crow

“The drum of hoofbeats rang from the trail winding up the side of Telegraph Hill, and then the sound of footsteps preceding them came to Crow’s ears.”
― Joel Jenkins, The Coming of Crow

“Lone Crow climbed Telegraph Hill, winding his way through clusters of tents and ramshackle wooden shelters of the Chileno encampment that clung to the slopes like barnacles on a ship’s hull.”
― Joel Jenkins, The Coming of Crow