Huck Out West Quotes

“What we got is NOW, Huck, and now is forever. Until it ain't. So, you can't worry over nothing except putting off the end a your story as long as you can, and finishing it with a bang.”
― Robert Coover, Huck Out West

“It was almost like there was something wicked about growing up.”
― Robert Coover, Huck Out West

“I nearly drownded on the Big River back home, but I didn't. Instead, I come to love the river, though the river never loved me. That's how it was with this horse. Ever so splendid and mighty, but indifferent as running water.”
― Robert Coover, Huck Out West

“Tribes, " I says. "They're a powerful curse laid on you when you get born. They ruin you, but you can't get away from them. They're a nightmare a body's got to live with in the day time.”
― Robert Coover, Huck Out West

“If I’d knowed we’d be a-finding gold, I’d a stayed down in the tepee, because there ain’t much worse can happen to a body”
― Robert Coover, Huck Out West