Madeleine Dale

“A man is nothing without patience, his father used to say. Patience and a loaded gun.”
― Steven Price, By Gaslight

“That woman did not come to stay. She meant to leave no more tracks in the hills of Dakota than a water bug might leave on a double martini.”
― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues: A Novel

“It was the kind of game the Countess loved. Listening to the rumors about his mystery model, he would probe his nasty smile with his cigarette holder and his dentures would clack like a goose eating dominoes.”
― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues: A Novel

“Moonlight lured Kym and Linda outdoors in their nightgowns to lean against the corral fence in silent rapture. Our moon, obviously, has surrendered none of its soft charm to technology. The pitter-patter of little spaceboots has in no way diminished its mystery. In fact, the explorations of the Apollo mechanics revealed almost nothing of any real importance that was not already intimated in the Luna card of the tarot deck.”
― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues: A Novel