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“Some criminals said fighting Nox was like fighting ghosts. He seemed to come from everywhere. Most criminals who fought Nox never said anything at all.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Rustkiller

“All the while, that seemingly sympathetic sun was growing a little fiercer, smiling a little broader. Sometimes the land didn't have to get you. You got yourself.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Rustkiller

“He leaned forward and began to count off on the fingers of the hand that held the cigarette: She aint American. She aint a citizen. She dont speak english. She works in a whorehouse. No, hear me out. And last but not least—he sat holding his thumb—there's a son of a bitch owns her outright that I guarangoddamntee you will kill you graveyard dead if you mess with him. Son, aint there no girls on this side of the damn river?

Not like her.

Well I'll bet that's the truth if you ever told it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain

“Yōshoku is the Japanese take on Western foods; much of it was created during the Meiji period (1868-1912), when, after centuries of isolation, Japan began importing goods and ideas from the outside world, including food. Yōshoku dishes such as hambaagu (salisbury steak in brown sauce), curry rice, potato croquettes, and "spaghetti naporitan" are now much-loved comfort food. They're also so unlike the dishes that inspired them that they tend to be really hard for Westerners to appreciate.”
― Matthew Amster-Burton, Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo

“I have no roots anywhere else. I have no 'at home' but here. And I feel doomed. Like I'm riding to Hell on a fast horse. I'm not afraid of dying, but I don't want to die alone. I don't want some no one finding me finished off and asking a sheriff, 'Who's that ?”
― Ron Hansen, The Kid

“Are you even aware of hot hot and cold you are? How you seduce and then withdraw, tantalize and then retreat? Even with men you're like that. You're a mystery to people, you keep us off-balance and guessing. We have to presume what you're thinking or feeling. And instead of being frustrated we find ourselves fascinated, and we make things up about you out of our own hopes and needs and all the dangerous things we're afraid to do.”
― Ron Hansen, The Kid

“You know what I want?�� Drey asked.
“Name it.�� Hawk knew he would move heaven and earth if she asked him.
She stood and started taking off her clothes.
“I’m not sure where exactly this is headed, but I’m liking it,�� he said.”
― B.J. Daniels, Rancher's Dream

“A corrupt corporate government employs blatantly corrupt scientists.”
― Steven Magee

“Watching corrupt corporate governments destroy the global environment makes me ashamed to be human.”
― Steven Magee

“People have a right to good health and that right is being violated by corporate controlled governments.”
― Steven Magee

“The poor Westerners fed us in the past, as they claim openly and loudly, while in fact, they occupied our lands, resources, and ruled us by force and gun. That biggest lie and falseness of this planet is visible to us, if I look the people from that part of the world, coming to West, now rich lands, to work, refuge, and for marital life, are, even a small quantity terribly treated, humiliated, discriminated, and ignored by the claimer of the human rights, who fed those nations in past. The truth is that our resources are still in their hands and monopolized. Our work is their source of maintenance, without that they cannot maintain their standards of living. Thus we are feeding them from our past until now.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“He closed his eyes, cursing the man to hell. Colt was a dead man.”
― B.J. Daniels, Cowboy's Redemption

“Tell me you have a plan.�� He swore when Colt didn’t answer right away.”
― B.J. Daniels, Cowboy's Redemption

“Great, you know how I love zombies. Except you can’t kill zombies.”
― B.J. Daniels, Cowboy's Redemption

“Off in the distance there were galleons of shock-white cumulus coulds gathering in the wide sky's cerulean harbor, and their azure shadows floated over the flatlands. Billy surprised himself by saying: "I love it here. I'll never leave.”
― Ron Hansen, The Kid

“Always assume a corporate controlled government is corrupt until proven otherwise.”
― Steven Magee

“I been packin�� iron for so long that if I don’t have one on me somewheres, I walk slant-wise.”
― William W. Johnstone, A High Sierra Christmas

“We don't want to settle down anymore; we've been settled, like some western township, and now we want to kick up the dust and tear down the fences. Not only won't we settle down; we also won't settle for less than what we've always wanted: a good time and a fair fight.”
― Gina Barreca, "If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?": Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times

“Anyone here who still intends to go to Hell, stand up and be counted among the damned.'
That's when Monte stands up. 'If what you been blattin' is true,' he says, 'then that's right where I'm a-going an' I'm a going there at a good clip.' An' Chet stands up alongside him an' Chet says. 'You ain't gone anywhere's yet, Monte, that I ain't been right with you, so I'll reckon I'll keep you comp'ny.' An' Powder stands up along the other side of him, an' Powder has his gun out, an' he's holding it kind of careless in one hand, an' he looks around an' he says, 'There's plenty more here heading in the same direction an' if they ain't got the nerve to stand up an' say so, they'll be getting there a lot sooner'n they been expecting.”
― Jack Schaefer, Monte Walsh

“Ever seen the play Arsenic and Old Lace?”
― B.J. Daniels, Hard Rustler

“She was a joke, and the only man she’d ever loved now knew it.”
― B.J. Daniels, Hard Rustler

“His uncle called him every day, demanding he get into the house, no matter what he had to do.
“You don’t understand,�� he’d tried to tell Bernie. “There’s this old woman who lives next door ��”
― B.J. Daniels, Hard Rustler

“There was a spider��”
― B.J. Daniels, Hard Rustler

“A gentleman would leave.��
He chuckled at that, his gaze locking with hers. “You and I are way past that, Annie.”
― B.J. Daniels, Hard Rustler

“I have resolved to strengthen my strength, in all avenues that I can. However, I have also resolved, I will measure my success not by other's standards, but by my own. We will never reach our individual beautiful potential by striving for someone else's.”
― Lisa Slater

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that people aren’t always who you think they are.”
― B.J. Daniels, Rugged Defender

“So, what’s our next move?��
He grinned. “I know what I’d like mine to be.”
― B.J. Daniels, Rugged Defender

“Stupid girl. Now she was going to have to die.”
― B.J. Daniels, Rugged Defender

“Leaving was the only way that she could find her way back”
― Amanda Smith, Leaving Wickenburg: Leaving was the only way that she could find her way back...

“Bad luck always comes in threes.”
― B.J. Daniels, Stroke of Luck