Jen: All the other boys fall over themselves and never even get to first base. Cory: Did you ever think, Jen, that I might no...t want to get to first base? Jen: Of course not. You're out to make a home run.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Looks like we got a trial ahead of us. But it's not the first time. We've had to go it alone before, and we'll have to go it alone... again. We're tough. We've had to be tough ever since Brother Brigham led our people across the plain. Well, they survived and I dang it, we'll, well, we'll survive too. Now put out your fires and get to your wagons.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The first sentence of every novel should be: "Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human." Mean...der if you want to get to town.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The glutton castaway, the drunkard in the desert, the lecher in prison, they are the happy ones. To hunger, thirst, lust, every da...y afresh and every day in vain, after the old prog, the old booze, the old whores, that's the nearest we'll ever get to felicity, the new porch and the very latest garden.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Boys forget what their country means by just reading "the land of the free" in history books. Then they get to be men, they forget... even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men always sell strawberries, women, blackberries, your all- knowing Creole friend says. 'Why?' you ask. 'Ah, it has always been t...hat way.' When you get to know Creoles better, you realize that the phrase 'It has always been that way' justifies everything.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »