All the Pretty Horses Quotes

They'd put an awning up over the gravesite but the weather was all sideways and it did no good. The canvas rattled and flapped and the preacher's words were lost in the wind. (17)

When the wind was in the north you could hear them [the Comanches], the horses and the breath of the horses and the horses' hooves that were shod in rawhide and the rattle of lances and the constan...

His grandfather was the oldest of eight boys and the only one to live past the age of twenty-five. They were drowned, shot, kicked by horses. They perished in fires. They seemed to fear only dying...

I dont like to be laughed at.Rawlins looked at the girls. They were sitting again and their eyes were wide and serious again. Hell, he said. It's just kids.I dont like to be laughed at, whispered B...

He rode where he would always choose to ride, out where the western fork of the old Comanche road [was] coming down out of the Kiowa country […]. At the hour he'd always choose when the shadows w...

When the wind was in the north you could hear them, the horses and the breath of the horses and the horses' hooves that were shod in rawhide and the rattle of lances and the constant drag of the tr...

Dark and cold and no wind and a thin gray reef beginning along the eastern rim of the world. He walked out on the prairie and stood holding his hat like some supplicant to the darkness over them al...

They rode singlefile down the cart track that served as a street. Half a dozen low houses with walls of mud brick slumping into ruin. A few jacales of brush and mud with brush roofs and a pole corr...