How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
"It's intelligent creatures you got to watch out for." (7.80)
There are a lot of creatures—human and animal—that just bump through life without giving it thought. Gus, as an intelligent creature himself, knows that it's the ones with intelligence who have the most potential.
Quote #2
Life was finally starting, Newt thought. (11.77)
Newt wants a life of adventure. Some men want a life of relaxation. Those men can stay in Lonesome Dove. Newt feels most alive when he's on the trail.
Quote #3
[Deets] had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men. (19.111)
This is a dark little tangent about suicide, something that doesn't come up a lot in Lonesome Dove. But it shows us how some people's happiness comes from within. Deets is like that. Jake Spoon isn't. In a way, Jake commits suicide by acting in a way that gets him killed. He never finds a satisfying way to live.