Goodnight Moon Quotes
"Writing takes too big of a hold on me, holds me down too long at a time and the pay is low and scarce."
"I believe that nature governs the behavior of all species, no matter how they make a living."
"Every evening, I recorded the stories of the day in calendar notebooks that fit in a chaps pocket."
"I've always done words as a contribution to something I don't understand."
"At least, cowboying is fun and good for the constitution, most of the time."
"My fiction is based on experience and evolves through years of cogitation."
"I don't try to write the story until the original idea becomes a full grown truth that kicks at my heart to get out."
"He paused, raised his head and looked around. He made a low sound of pleasure, almost of affection, for the doe."
"I felt akin to all who made their living in the Sierra. Tienen derecho, they have a right to do what they do."
"She was a girl. She slept with great ease no matter how unquiet Adán might feel at bedtime."
"He was sorry for marring the person and beauty of so fine an animal."
"Adancito felt mean and small for what he had done."
"He looked to the head of the wash and saw the jaguar climbing out."
"The sight of the wide head, the open mouth, the leveled gaze that forgot the hurt in the eye, scared the boy."
"The gentle mare did not move. Her sides heaved and she whinnied for her filly as though her heart would break."
"El Toro Buey loved to fight. This love was as strong as his love for breeding cows."
"He would not miss a meal because of natural borders or any other adversity."
"He was capable of using his horns with all the fencing and killing power of sword or ax."
"The corriente is generally not as beautiful, as well made, as pugnacious toward life or human beings as the brave bull."
"The blood of bulls of Spanish casta, the brave bulls raised for the bull ring, is strong in the corriente."
"From the brave bull of his ancestry El Toro Buey inherited the sense that battle was good."
"He found the spot in the middle of the arroyo where he would fight."
"She could almost feel the breath of the jaguar in her ear and smell his stale maw."
"The moan encompassed Las Animas and seemed to claim lordship over the place."
"The sound of his wings into a quick glide and stopped close in the vainoro."
"He felt his very look was enough to kill any being that would face it."
"He practiced it while he rode with his back straight, his shoulders set, his neck stiff."
"You can't do anything. Your eyes don't do you a bit of good."
"How can he be expected to look after another man's cow if he can't watch over his own burro?"
"That boy is so puny I could read a newspaper through his ears."
"He felt as confident that he would kill El Yoco as he would if he had the jaguar in the sights of his rifle."
"The quiet. The rooster had not crowed. His hour had passed without his singing."
"She would have found a pair of testicles in here he couldn't swallow, and I don't refer to those little marbles of Adancito's."
"Maybe the meal or the mate would hold him long enough for Adán to catch up."
"I hoped he would try coming inside my house. I wouldn't have chased him while he was outside; but I had no doubt he would get the worst of it if he came into my kitchen."
"The deeds of night become apparent in the day."
"Poor the poor man who to heaven won't go. They grind him on earth and they grind him below, amen."
"He was an old man now who only loved to sit by the fire, ridicule his fellows, and puff on his pipe."
"I admire the tigre. He is the most powerful and beautiful animal in the Sierra or anywhere."
"You watched him kill three head of my stock while you held a powerful rifle with a telescopic sight in your hands?"
"No matter. He had not expected his death would be easy to meet again."
"The brush back and forth from a back room and now came around from behind the counter."
"What could these people know? Tigres were the monsters his people in Sinaloa lived with, not some old toothless lion that was probably starving about in these mountains."
"The dogs came back and lay around him panting."
"He worked swiftly, wasting no motion with bar and shovel, until the ground was ready for planting."
"After a lifetime in the Sierra I think you still look for street signs and white lines to guide you over these trails."
"My buttocks feel stricken by smallpox, my anus is a blossoming rose of hemorrhoids."
"He could have killed that son of his tal mother."
"He should send for his wife to hunt the tigre."
"He smiled to himself. He knew mules whose brains would starve a jaguar to death."
"Like all drunks I saved my bottle and my carcass in the accident."
"He saw them through oak and pine forest from a trail lined with brave and spiny agrarrobo that clawed at him to keep him awake."
"Martinillo cut the loin off the cow, sorry to disturb the monument she made to the efficiency of El Yoco as a killer."
"If you had been here the other night where you belonged, son of your tal mother, you would have killed that son of his tal mother."
"The man had noticed a scree slope below him; small fine shale shed into a pile by this mountain."
"The big lump over his eye was put there by my son."
"I poured a gallon of copalquin bark tea into him last night to keep his fever down."
"You are my husband, Adán. My husband."