lonesome dove quotes

“A man who wouldn’t cheat for a poke don’t want one bad enough. –Augustus “Gus” McCrae”

“The eastern sky was red as coals in a forge, lighting up the flats along the river. Dew had wet the million needles of the chaparral, and…

Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. “She just run off with herself, I guess.”

“From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.”

“Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain’t much of a crime.”

“I hate rude behavior in a man,’ he explained in his quiet, unassuming drawl. ‘I won’t tolerate it.’ He politely tipped his hat, and rode away.”