Lonesome Dove Quotes

When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. (1.1)

Newt was deeply in love with Lorena Wood, though so far he had not even had an opportunity to speak to her. […] He wanted to speak to Lorena, of course—it represented the very summit of his lif...

"The point I'm making is that all men ain't the same, so they shouldn't be the same price, or am I wrong? Maybe from where you sit all men are the same." (3.36)

"You better watch that girl. […] To see she don't get you to marry her," Call said. "You're just enough of an old food to do it. I won't have that girl around." (2.75, 2.77)

He had led boys as young, in his day, and seem them killed, which was why he kept putting Newt off. (2.62)

When the Civil War came, the Governor himself called them in and asked them not to go—with so many men gone they needed at least one reliable troop of Rangers to keep the peace on the border. (7.92)

Uva uvam vivendo varia fit (8.48)

But the three of them were compañeros still, no matter how many dentists he killed. Call and Gus had been the law themselves and didn't always bow and scrape to it. They would not likely let some...

He had been very interested in the notion of emancipation and had studied over it a lot while he went about his work. It was obviously just pure luck that he himself hadn't been born a slave, but i...

"It's intelligent creatures you got to watch out for." (7.80)