How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"Let's go have a little fun. I always liked stealing Ellie's boys and here I've got a chance to steal her husband." (69.84)
We've seen the kind of friendly teasing between cowboys with Gus and Call, but this is friendly teasing between prostitutes. Sounds like prostitutes and cowboys are pretty similar in the way they sometimes treat each other.
Quote #8
"I lost three boys, Gus. I needed a friend." (86.138)
A friendship works both ways, and Clara sees it as a slight that Gus didn't come to visit her. But on the other hand, she never asked him to. As a friend, should she expect him to read her mind? Or is this something he just should have known?
Quote #9
"You're one of a kind, Gus," Call said, sighing. "We'll all miss you."
"Even you, Woodrow?" Augustus asked.
"Yes, me," Call said. "Why not me?"
"I take it back, Woodrow," Augustus said. "I have no doubt you'll miss me. You'll probably die of boredom this winter and I'll never get to Clara's orchard." (96.101-96.104)
Gus and Call remain friends to the end, able to joke with each other even as Gus is about to die.