Western Quotes

“His father used to tell him that you can't eat principles. And no, you couldn't. But you could live by them.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Dustrunner

“Each of the three cultures in New Mexico during the mid-1800s (Caucasian, Hispanic, and Native American) were actively involved in kidnapping each other. As competition and fighting occurred between the three races, cruelty and violence were rampant on all sides. Yet, some captives found kindness among their captors.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, Captives of the Southwest

“Some criminals said fighting Nox was like fighting ghosts. He seemed to come from everywhere. Most criminals who fought Nox never said anything at all.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Rustkiller

“All the while, that seemingly sympathetic sun was growing a little fiercer, smiling a little broader. Sometimes the land didn't have to get you. You got yourself.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Rustkiller

“He wondered if they knew fear, and thought that maybe if they didn’t, he could teach them it, like he’d taught manners to the foul-tongued and the red-handed.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Rustkiller

“If the Wild North were a living place, as the local tribes often claimed, then these were the embodiment of its dark subconscious. The spirits of men could haunt you, so why would the spirits of machines be any different?”
― Dean F. Wilson, Rustkiller

“A woman's got to look her best at wedding and funerals" she quipped. "The bride will upstage her at a wedding; and the guest of honor at a funeral is in no condition to complain about her attire, but you never know who else you might meet!

Grace Willow’s Last Minute Bride”
― Grace Willows, Last Minute Bride

“He breathed in the mesmerizing scent, knowing that if he touched her, if he turned her to face him, if he looked into those bottomless green eyes, he would be lost forever.”
― B.J. Daniels, Hero's Return

“She wasn’t given to thinking very far, but she did a lot of intelligent feeling.”
― Walter Van Tilburg Clark, The Ox-Bow Incident

“I have no roots anywhere else. I have no 'at home' but here. And I feel doomed. Like I'm riding to Hell on a fast horse. I'm not afraid of dying, but I don't want to die alone. I don't want some no one finding me finished off and asking a sheriff, 'Who's that ?”
― Ron Hansen, The Kid

“As Rachel ran with her 18-month-old son James Pratt, she was knocked down to the ground by a hoe, dragged by her hair, and separated from her child. She found herself taken to the area where her uncle Benjamin had been mutilated; arrows had been stuck in his body, and passing warriors thrust spears into it.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, Captives of the Southwest

“I like Western values. Since the time we were in Central Asia, the momentum of Turks has been towards the West. But this shouldn't be interpreted as worship of, or dependence on the West.”
― Hilmi Özkök

“If whoever had been working with her thought they could blackmail him… He hoped they would try.
He wasn’t that teenager they’d tricked all those years ago. This cowboy was more than ready for them now.”
― B.J. Daniels, Hero's Return

“I've seen runnin' molasses that was quicker 'n him.”
― Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage: By Zane Grey - Illustrated

“a gentle, permanent reality that was in him like his bones or his heart, that made him seem like an everlasting part of things.”
― Walter Van Tilburg Clark, The Ox-Bow Incident

“None of them were even married, and the kind of women they got a chance to know weren’t likely to be changed by what a rustler would do to them.”
― Walter Van Tilburg Clark, The Ox-Bow Incident

“You’ve made a terrible mistake.”
― B.J. Daniels, Rancher's Dream

“Everything was going to be all right, she told herself. Every woman got wedding jitters, right? Every woman felt a little nauseated at the thought of her first love on her wedding day. Every woman saw herself lying face down, dead in a pond.”
― B.J. Daniels, Rancher's Dream

“What man didn’t join his wife on their wedding night?”
― B.J. Daniels, Rancher's Dream

“The new Mrs. Ethan Baxter, I presume?”
“Was there an old Mrs. Baxter?” she asked.
He merely laughed.”
― B.J. Daniels, Rancher's Dream

“You know that if I ever do settle down with some woman, Lillie is going to come after you next,” Hawk said. “She’s relentless. She’ll have you married within weeks after I tie the knot. Mark my words.” He took another drink and swallowed. “Be afraid. Be very afraid.”
― B.J. Daniels, Rancher's Dream

“You know what I want?” Drey asked.
“Name it.” Hawk knew he would move heaven and earth if she asked him.
She stood and started taking off her clothes.
“I’m not sure where exactly this is headed, but I’m liking it,” he said.”
― B.J. Daniels, Rancher's Dream

“A corrupt corporate government employs blatantly corrupt scientists.”
― Steven Magee

“Watching corrupt corporate governments destroy the global environment makes me ashamed to be human.”
― Steven Magee

“People have a right to good health and that right is being violated by corporate controlled governments.”
― Steven Magee

“The poor Westerners fed us in the past, as they claim openly and loudly, while in fact, they occupied our lands, resources, and ruled us by force and gun. That biggest lie and falseness of this planet is visible to us, if I look the people from that part of the world, coming to West, now rich lands, to work, refuge, and for marital life, are, even a small quantity terribly treated, humiliated, discriminated, and ignored by the claimer of the human rights, who fed those nations in past. The truth is that our resources are still in their hands and monopolized. Our work is their source of maintenance, without that they cannot maintain their standards of living. Thus we are feeding them from our past until now.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“He closed his eyes, cursing the man to hell. Colt was a dead man.”
― B.J. Daniels, Cowboy's Redemption

“Tell me you have a plan.” He swore when Colt didn’t answer right away.”
― B.J. Daniels, Cowboy's Redemption

“Great, you know how I love zombies. Except you can’t kill zombies.”
― B.J. Daniels, Cowboy's Redemption

“Off in the distance there were galleons of shock-white cumulus coulds gathering in the wide sky's cerulean harbor, and their azure shadows floated over the flatlands. Billy surprised himself by saying: "I love it here. I'll never leave.”
― Ron Hansen, The Kid