

“Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes.”
― The Crossing
― The Crossing

“No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they?
No.
It's never like what you expected.
Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?”
― The Crossing
No.
It's never like what you expected.
Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?”
― The Crossing

“It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha

“He said that men believe the blood of the slain to be of no consequence but that the wolf knows better. He said that the wolf is a being of great order and that it knows what men do not: that there is no order in this world save that which death has put there.”
― The Crossing
― The Crossing

“He rode out in the dark long before daylight and he rode the sun up and he rode it down again. In the oncoming years a terrible drought struck west Texas. He moved on. There was no work in that country anywhere. Pasture gates stood open and sand drifted in the roads and after a few years it was rare to see stock of any kind and he rode on. Days of the world. Years of the world. Till he was old. ”
― The Crossing
― The Crossing
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