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“Just four or five hours later we begin to see a country whose beauty penetrates our bones. I say beauty I mean beauty. Oftentimes in America you could go stark mad from the ugliness of things. Grass that goes for a thousand miles and never a hill to break it. I ain't saying there ain't beauty on the plains when well there is. But you ain't long travelling on the plains when you begin to feel clear loco. You can rise up out of your saddle and sort of look down on yourself riding, it's as if the stern and relentless monotony makes you die, come back to life, and die again. Your brain is molten in its bowl of bones and you just seeing atrocious wonders everywhere. The mosquitoes have your hide for supper and you are one hallucinating lunatic then. But now in the far distance we see a land begin to be suggested as if maybe a man was out there painting with a huge brush.”
― Sebastian Barry, Days Without End

“His father used to tell him that you can't eat principles. And no, you couldn't. But you could live by them.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Dustrunner

“You’re staring,â€� she said as she cut her eyes to him.
Clayton lifted one shoulder in a shrug. “I like what I see.”
― Donna Grant, The Christmas Cowboy Hero

“Tell me he’s got a cute ass in Wranglers,â€� Gloria pleaded. “I’ve got a weakness for cowboys.â€�
Abby grinned. “It’s not cute. His ass is magnificent.”
― Donna Grant, The Christmas Cowboy Hero

“I always wondered why they don’t have a word for a parent who loses a child. If I’d lost Ben, I’d be a widow.”
― Donna Grant, The Christmas Cowboy Hero

“Each of the three cultures in New Mexico during the mid-1800s (Caucasian, Hispanic, and Native American) were actively involved in kidnapping each other. As competition and fighting occurred between the three races, cruelty and violence were rampant on all sides. Yet, some captives found kindness among their captors.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, Captives of the Southwest

“She looked at her right hand, where the index finger was cut to a stump. Some said she lost it in an accident, when she was playing soldier with a live grenade. Others said she was taught a lesson by the law, and they took her trigger finger to make her keep on learning. Those were the lessons the Coilhunter liked. Why, he was quite the teacher himself.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Coilhunter

“That was the thing about bad dreams in the Wild North. You still had them when you woke up.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Coilhunter

“You hang your heroes. That way they’ll never disappoint you.' It also brought to mind his own retort: 'But what about your enemies? What about the
villains? What do we do with those?”
― Dean F. Wilson, Coilhunter

“The Coilhunter wasn’t much of a talker. He liked to keep things short and sweet, just like the lives of criminals. Well, the short bit anyway.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Coilhunter

“If you didn’t have your guns, you still had your mouth. Of course, you had to be careful how you fired that off.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Coilhunter

“There weren’t many amulet smugglers around these parts. They mostly served Regime territory down south, where the so-called “demonsâ€� reigned. If you didn’t want a monster for a child, you’d pay a pretty penny for one of those necklaces. And if you were caught smuggling them, well, you’d pay with your pretty head.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Coilhunter

“He wondered if they knew fear, and thought that maybe if they didn’t, he could teach them it, like he’d taught manners to the foul-tongued and the red-handed.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Rustkiller

“If the Wild North were a living place, as the local tribes often claimed, then these were the embodiment of its dark subconscious. The spirits of men could haunt you, so why would the spirits of machines be any different?”
― Dean F. Wilson, Rustkiller

“A woman's got to look her best at wedding and funerals" she quipped. "The bride will upstage her at a wedding; and the guest of honor at a funeral is in no condition to complain about her attire, but you never know who else you might meet!

Grace Willow’s Last Minute Bride”
― Grace Willows, Last Minute Bride

“He breathed in the mesmerizing scent, knowing that if he touched her, if he turned her to face him, if he looked into those bottomless green eyes, he would be lost forever.”
― B.J. Daniels, Hero's Return

“She wasn’t given to thinking very far, but she did a lot of intelligent feeling.”
― Walter Van Tilburg Clark, The Ox-Bow Incident

“Western corporate governments are far more likely to damage your health or kill you prematurely than anyone from North Korea.”
― Steven Magee

“... it was so reminiscent of the Old West towns in the Cowboy movies him and his dad loved watching together, with it old, false-front Victorian buildings and wide porches. With the sun just setting in the west and the street all but deserted of townspeople, he could just imagine a desperado throwing down on a lawman in the main street.”
― Duane Ratswander, Hobbyards

“As Rachel ran with her 18-month-old son James Pratt, she was knocked down to the ground by a hoe, dragged by her hair, and separated from her child. She found herself taken to the area where her uncle Benjamin had been mutilated; arrows had been stuck in his body, and passing warriors thrust spears into it.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, Captives of the Southwest

“I like Western values. Since the time we were in Central Asia, the momentum of Turks has been towards the West. But this shouldn't be interpreted as worship of, or dependence on the West.”
― Hilmi Özkök

“If whoever had been working with her thought they could blackmail himâ€� He hoped they would try.
He wasn’t that teenager they’d tricked all those years ago. This cowboy was more than ready for them now.”
― B.J. Daniels, Hero's Return

“I've seen runnin' molasses that was quicker 'n him.”
― Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage: By Zane Grey - Illustrated

“a gentle, permanent reality that was in him like his bones or his heart, that made him seem like an everlasting part of things.”
― Walter Van Tilburg Clark, The Ox-Bow Incident

“None of them were even married, and the kind of women they got a chance to know weren’t likely to be changed by what a rustler would do to them.”
― Walter Van Tilburg Clark, The Ox-Bow Incident

“You’ve made a terrible mistake.”
― B.J. Daniels, Rancher's Dream

“Everything was going to be all right, she told herself. Every woman got wedding jitters, right? Every woman felt a little nauseated at the thought of her first love on her wedding day. Every woman saw herself lying face down, dead in a pond.”
― B.J. Daniels, Rancher's Dream

“What man didn’t join his wife on their wedding night?”
― B.J. Daniels, Rancher's Dream

“The new Mrs. Ethan Baxter, I presume?â€�
“Was there an old Mrs. Baxter?� she asked.
He merely laughed.”
― B.J. Daniels, Rancher's Dream

“You know that if I ever do settle down with some woman, Lillie is going to come after you next,â€� Hawk said. “She’s relentless. She’ll have you married within weeks after I tie the knot. Mark my words.â€� He took another drink and swallowed. “Be afraid. Be very afraid.”
― B.J. Daniels, Rancher's Dream