Texasville Quotes

“There isn't a thought in my head I care to be alone with for more than five minutes.”
― Larry McMurtry, Texasville

“I just got gang-egged, or egg-banged or something."

--Sheriff Toots Burns.”
― Larry McMurtry, Texasville

“i'd hate to read all these books...that much reading could put your eyes out.”
― Larry McMurtry, Texasville

“their love life. And if he went to the Dairy Queen Jenny Marlow would find him. She seemed to spend her day circling around in the car, watching to see if anyone she wanted to talk to showed up at the Dairy Queen. If she did catch him she would invariably remind him that his older son had some very bad habits. About all he could do when he felt hard-pressed was to go to the lake and drift around in his boat—but it was a very hot spring, and drifting around in an unshaded boat in ninety-five-to-one-hundred-degree weather was not much fun. He did it occasionally, though. Sometimes he would slip over the side fully clothed, except for his shoes, and then lie in the boat with his cap over his eyes while the sun dried his sopping clothes. At such times he wondered what Karla and Jacy found to talk about all day.”
― Larry McMurtry, Texasville: A Novel

“You could have sniffed once or twice,” Karla said. “It said in an article I read that the smell of women’s undergarments is very exciting to most men.”
― Larry McMurtry, Texasville