Wranglestone Quotes

“Open places make you consider yourself?"
"Yeah," said Cooper. "Like the plains."
"And the stars?"
"Uh-huh. And the sea and the desert too, Pa says. But I dunno why that is."
Peter shrugged. "Perhaps it's because they make us feel small."
"No. They make me feel bigger, Peter.”
― Darren Charlton, Wranglestone

“Cooper didn't look away. His blue eyes pierced through the tendrils of his hair like a wolf in the woods. He held Peter's gaze. He didn't smile, but Peter saw one all the same. He didn't speak and yet they were speaking now as if for the first time. There was friendship waiting to come in from the cold. But it was more than that. There was closeness. Unbound possibility.”
― Darren Charlton, Wranglestone

“Never listen to the Missing Monster. He'll always feed you a pack of dirty lies when a loved one is far away.”
― Darren Charlton, Wranglestone

“They'll take everything you got inside you because they got nothing left inside them, nothing.”
― Darren Charlton, Wranglestone

“Found them on some dead thing back in the woods and for a moment there it took me right back to Saturday nights at Randy’s Rusty Spur. Now you might think that was just the name of some no-good bar, but you’d be wrong. God, that boy got around.”
― Darren Charlton, Wranglestone