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“Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won't even be looking at the sky."

Excerpt from Grace Willow's Last Minute Bride”
― Grace Willows

“It was Daisuke's conviction that all morality traced its origins to social realities. He believed there could be no greater confusion of cause and effect than to attempt to conform social reality to a rigidly predetermined notion of morality. Accordingly, he found the ethical education conducted by lecture in Japanese schools utterly meaningless. In the schools, students were either instructed in the old morality or crammed with a morality suited to the average European. For an unfortunate people beset by the fierce appetites of life, this amounted to nothing more than vain, empty talk. When the recipients of this education saw society before their eyes, they would recall those lectures and burst out laughing. Or else they would feel that they had been made fools of. In Daisuke's case it was not just school; he had received the most rigorous and least functional education from his father. Thanks to this, he had at one time experienced acute anguish stemming from contradictions. Daisuke even felt bitter over it.”
― Natsume Sōseki, And Then

“I confess [Election] is a hard doctrine, running contrary to our earthly ideas of fair play, but I can see no way around it. Read I Corinthians 6:13 and II Timothy 1:9,10. Also I Peter 1:2,19,20 and Romans 11:7. There you have it. It was good for Paul and Silas and it is good enough for me. It is good enough for you too.”
― Charles Portis, True Grit

“Despite everything, every piece of Alaska sang to me. I remembered every curve in the trails, every tree in the forest. It was familiar to me, comfortable. The more I thought about leaving it, the less I liked the idea. This was my home.”
― Summer Lane, Running with Wolves

“States are far less violent than traditional bands and tribes. Modern Western countries, even in their most war-torn centuries, suffered no more than around a quarter of the average death rate of nonstate societies, and less than a tenth of that for the most violent one.”
― Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

“A few of the gunslingers dance, but only a few. And they were the young ones. The other ones only sat, and it seemed to me they were half embarrassed in all that light, that civilized light.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“Western police officers are an arguably corrupt group of people that have rigged the system to make them almost untouchable.”
― Steven Magee

“There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations.”
― Steven Magee

“In the West, people learn through the Socratic tradition. The education system was influenced by Western philosophy and is based on constantly questioning the knowledge that’s handed to you and arriving at the truth through that process of questioning. The Indian system took off from the Guru-Shishyha tradition in which your virtue as a student lay in taking tradition or parampara as it is given to you and passing it on to the next generation in the exact same way.”
― Sharanya Haridas

“Hank Knight asked questions about Jesse Rose and an item that was taken from her crib the night she was kidnapped. His questions led our lawyer to believe Hank had knowledge about the crime and possibly where Jesse Rose is now. I think he got too close to the truth. Too close to the kidnapper's accomplice. And if I'm right then you can help me prove it.”
― B.J. Daniels, Rough Rider

“His lips brushed over hers. She let out a sigh of relief and joy and pleasure. He pulled her tighter against him, taking her mouth with his own. She melted into him and the kiss, heart pounding, desire sparking along her nerve endings like a string of lit dynamite.”
― B.J. Daniels, Rough Rider

“I didn't care, because I loved him, and that was the end of every argument and the beginning of every promise.”
― Summer Lane, Running with Wolves

“In western societies many people become sick in their thirties, develop serious medical conditions in their forties and are disabled in their fifties.”
― Steven Magee

“Right and wrong isn’t a matter of ethics, rather it’s the geography in which you reside and whose control you’re under. Tallinn Manual 2.0 is based largely on western international humanitarian law.”
― James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Well, I'll tell you, Mr. Graff-'
'Not Graff,' the big man snapped, looking annoyed. 'The name is Garff-Garff!'
'Say, that's good,' the hunter said. 'Garff-Garff- that's even better than bow-wow. Do you know any other animal imitations?”
― Joe Millard, The Million-Dollar Bloodhunt

“Understanding why so many western women are giving birth to unnaturally large babies that either damage the birth canal or will not fit down it is one of the greatest challenges to modern medicine.”
― Steven Magee

“En esta comarca los hombres morían jóvenes mientras que los cactus se volvían centenarios.”
― Dominique Scali, In Search of New Babylon

“The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety.”
― Steven Magee

“These ideas fit the experience of these Japanese women who often talked about searching for or trying to develop "self" (jibun). Cultivating or polishing self by doing tea ceremony or being a good mother, for example, had a good connotation for the Japanese because it meant that you were trying to go beyond your narrow self and connect self with the larger world beyond social norms. But developing self in the new way these women used it meant to develop self according to just what you want to do or in a way that enhances your own possibilities in the world. Would others see choosing a life for self as selfish? These women had to maintain some ambiguity because they were wandering into dangerous territory when they wanted to travel just to enjoy themselves, or keep working and not marry. In a society that honored the cultivation of a larger self, would they themselves someday suffer for having chosen the self-centered way?”
― Nancy Ross Rosenberger, Dilemmas of Adulthood: Japanese Women and the Nuances of Long-Term Resistance

“The past is just that.”
― B.J. Daniels, Dead Ringer

“Where are you taking me?�� Abby asked from the passenger seat of the pickup.”
― B.J. Daniels, Dead Ringer

“Seth shrugged. "He's already had his funeral pyre" He glanced towards "I reckon the Devil himself was there to welcome Daniel home. " He shuddered, "Course he may prove to be too mean for the devil himself.”
― Grace Willows, Heart of Stone

“He noticed her eyes were a rich, warm brown, the same color as his favorite horse.
"Yes?"
He realized he'd been staring. At least he had the sense not to voice his thoughts. He doubted she would appreciate her eye color being compared to that of his horse's hide even if it was his favorite.”
― B.J. Daniels, Rough Rider

“Her gaze locked with his and she felt her heart quicken. Slowly, he bent his head until his lips were only a breath away from her own. She couldn't breathe. Didn't dare. She thought she would die if he didn't kiss her.”
― B.J. Daniels, Rough Rider

“There comes a time when a man has to kill his own snakes.”
― T.D. Nutt, Serpens Abyss

“Tex�� forearm twitched before he snarled again; “Lay…the…fuck…off.�� Each word dripped with venom.
“We will but first I want to make sure you take my meaning �� take it as gospel. Play your little game, fuck her bow-legged but when it comes down to a choice between you or her getting hurt, I’ll put a bullet in her pretty little head so fast you’ll think you imagined her.�� With that, he walked off. Cy following behind. They tipped their hats to Elena as they passed her.”
― Keshia Harris, Tex

“That kiss was amazing. Our lips were meant to meet and do wicked things to each other.”
― Nicky Fox, My Pinup Girl

“She was in so fast that she didn’t have a chance to scream. The icy cold water stole her breath away��”
― B.J. Daniels, Cowboy's Legacy

“In the distance, he could see a large star made out of red and green lights on the side of a barn, a reminder that Christmas was coming.”
― B.J. Daniels, Cowboy's Legacy

“Jake's fury rose and nearly choked him. He pushed the words through barred teeth, “I'm afraid I can't agree with you, Marshal.�� He headed towards the door. “And if I have to fight this whole town, I'll do it.”
― Willowy Whisper, The Pursued