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“Ranching was life distilled: birth and death, the hard winter giving way to spring, and spring to the heat and fast black storms of summer. There was a violence in it, a violence you tried in all ways to diminish but a violence you nonetheless had to know and hold. In this tilting world, when so many had gotten away from anything resembling the actual, were living what Rene thought of as supermarket lives, ranching at least kept you close to what mattered, to what was real.”
― Joe Wilkins, The Entire Sky

“The power to protect is the highest responsibility.”
― James Islington, The Strength of the Few

“A pain promised is often worse than pain itself.”
― James Islington, The Strength of the Few

“He's a good man. Trying to be better. Trying to come to terms with the fact that he lived his entire life believing a lie.”
― James Islington, The Strength of the Few