Dawn

“Joshua tried to find the right words to explain how things were--how they'd always been. "It's like... prairie dogs."
Ben quirked an eyebrow at him.
"You see the holes. 'N' you know the dogs are around, even if you don't see the dogs themselves."
"What the hell are you talkin' about?"
"Gay. Cowboys. They're there. Like a lot of single cowboys, they go into Billings once a month, only they ain't there so see women. There's no point in flingin' yourself around in public, 's all.”
― Eli Easton, A Prairie Dog's Love Song

“Then, in the most beautiful French Harry has ever heard, the boy whispers, ‘Of course I can fucking swim, you great Sassenach idiot. I grew up in a tower in the middle of a loch.”
― Alex de Campi, The Scottish Boy

“I swear to God, Boss,” he said one day. “Ya ain’t never been a talker, but lately, if ya’d a had to rub two words together to make a fire, you’d a done froze to death.”
― Eli Easton, A Prairie Dog's Love Song

“Old lady Patterson is a real tightwad.” Raising his voice
so it would carry, the man continued, “If she stuck a lump of coal
up her ass, within a week she’d shit out a diamond.”
― Drew Hunt, Calvin's Cowboy