Western Quotes

She looked up and their eyes locked. “Want to be my birthday present?” she asked in a breathy whisper.Chase’s mother didn’t raise any fools. He released her hips and trailed his hand down her arm until their fingers entwined.“Let’s get out of here.”He tugged her from the dance floor, trying not to rush like he was running from a fire. But, damn. There was a fire in his britches.

~ Tamara Hoffa

The terrible price of living, ain’t it? To live through others dying?

~ J.d. Jordan

not knowing what I needed to do or where I needed to go, I knew all the same that I was going in the right direction.

~ J.d. Jordan

Don’t matter none how bad it gets sometimes. You can always turn this shit around.

~ J.d. Jordan

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

~ Daniel Woodrell

There is a great independence, and a confident immunity to risk, in all drinks made out of cactus.

~ Alan Lemay

What? An alien. You think I'm from outer space. She snorts in disbelief. I'm Kelly Tillman, you dumb-ass. From 41 Montana Avenue, Valentine, Texas. What's left of it. I canned seventh grade for a piece-of-crap job with lousy tips and lousy hours. You ain't telling me I'm the outsider here. No way.

~ Philip Webb

This is a robbery. Sorry for the inconvenience'n'all but if you don't line up out here at the count of five then I'm gonna get all trigger-happy on your ass. One, two...

~ Philip Webb

Visitation Day - I was not even born yet when the world stopped turning, twenty years ago. It is hard for me to imagine that moment, though I have heard the tale many times, for I have never seen the light of the moon or a sunrise

~ Philip Webb

There is no better place to heal a broken heart than on the back of a horse.

~ Missy Lyons

Jack glanced toward the dressing room, not believing that all the time he had been with her, she had been half-naked...

~ Terry Spear

No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

~ Erich Maria Remarque

When I envied a man's spurs then they were indeed worth coveting.

~ Zane Grey

he had offered some of his own background. A youth in the South. An education in the North. Bred for life in the East. Trying not to die in the West.

~ Mary Doria Russell

Ain’t nothing scarier than someone with nothing.

~ J.d. Jordan