Cowboy Ghost Quotes

“No matter how tender you care about people, I was discovering, you'll not alter anyone. Best afford them the noblest gift that a man can offer his neighbor.
Acceptance.”
― Robert Newton Peck, Cowboy Ghost

“Years ago, Mrs. Krickitt had warned me, in a scholarly tone, about the Heavenly wrath of an Old Testament God. I didn't understand. So our housekeeper explained it: "Nature," she said. "When our blessed Mother Nature corrects us, she acts violently. Be it a earthquake, tidal wave, or volcano spittle. Nature's adjustments are usual massive, beyond our comprehension in magnitude and might. When our Earth demands a fixing, the Almighty allows Mother Nature to smite us, wielding a heavy hammer."
"Why?" I'd asked her.
Mrs. Krickitt had smiled and touched my hand. "To remind us mortals, Titus Timothy, that it is not we frail things who are supreme.”
― Robert Newton Peck, Cowboy Ghost

“Smiling, he smuggled me an extra-tender ear of buttery sweet corn, which I gnawed to cob in three seconds. Aware I no longer ate human. Rather like a homeless dog.”
― Robert Newton Peck, Cowboy Ghost

“Titus, the secret of joyfulness is hawg simple. I'm happy. Because I know who and what I be.”
― Robert Newton Peck, Cowboy Ghost

“Cows are stupid. Almost as brainless as the humans who herd 'em on horseback.”
― Robert Newton Peck, Cowboy Ghost

“To watch him sit a horse was better than hearing music. Every motion did easy. He and his animal were one graceful entity, as though they'd not been asked to work, but to waltz.”
― Robert Newton Peck, Cowboy Ghost

“Sooner or later, animals will let loose a human trait, as men sometimes behave like a beast.”
― Robert Newton Peck, Cowboy Ghost