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Call me naive or a coward and I’ll show you a crow who is here to tell you the goddamned story.
“He was born the day he first heard the song of a whale, and he has been finding ways to record them ever since. In one moment high and squeaking like the top note of a violin, in the next guttural, echoing, some space between the moan of a cow and the trumpet of an elephant. Sometimes joyous and playful, sometimes mournful and searching. Sometimes with a trill or a creak or a rumble. A question, a call, a love letter.”
― Wild Dark Shore
― Wild Dark Shore
“Anger makes the mind clear and incisive”
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
“It was the porch he begrudged them, not the snake. Pigs on the porch just made things hotter, and things were already hot enough.”
― Lonesome Dove
― Lonesome Dove
“The old method for dealing with bad dreams is to tell them aloud above the toilet bowl”
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
“Can you imagine having that kind of faith?” Cyrus asked. “To be that certain of something you’ve never seen? I’m not that certain of anything. I’m not that certain of gravity.” “That certainty is what put worms in their brains”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
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