Quotes from Craig Johnson

there was this Indian woman hitchhiking back to the Rez in the middle of the night and this white woman picks her up. The Indian woman says, 'Hey, thanks for picking me up. What are you doing out on the road this late?' The white woman points to a bottle in a brown paper bag sitting on the seat between them and says, 'I got this bottle of wine for my husband.' The Indian woman nodded, 'Good trade.

We do everything we can to protect the people we love, whatever it takes, and it's not enough. Unlike bone, once that illusionary magic circle is broken, it can never be completely repaired, and it is not stronger at the break.

Latin, meaning by-stander.

We must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

hatred has a poor shelf life but that hope and love can limp along together forever.

I couldn't help but make a growling noise. "How long does she have?" "I don't know, but the airspace in her chest cavity is growing and has collapsed the lung; it's now crowding her heart, Walter, to the point that it will no longer be able to pump the blood needed to keep her alive." I set my jaw. "Well, we're going to have to get all western on this, aren't we?

Savage .22 automatic rifle

Philadelphia, where no good deed goes unpunished . . . —STEVE LOPEZ The Philadelphia Inquirer January 15, 1995

Sometimes I get to where I feel like I'm the only one getting it in the shorts in this life, you know?

Static. "Over and out of my mind." "Roger that.

I was sweating like a bottle of beer in a biker bar

I don't like funerals, and a while ago I just stopped going to them. I think the ceremony is a form of denial, and when my wife died and my daughter, Cady, informed me that she was unaware of any instance where going to somebody's funeral ever brought them back, I just about gave it up.

Good friends are the ones who can remain close without losing their ability to surprise.

appreciate that both of you uphold the eight core values of Integrity, Courage, Discipline, Loyalty, Diligence, Humility, Optimism, and Conviction that are integral to the success of the agency and a hallmark of the Wyoming Highway Patrol.

It is the owl feathers that are the sign of death, the messengers from the other world. The eagle feather is a sign of life, attached to all the activities of the living: making rain, planting and harvesting crops, success in fishing, protecting homes, and curing illness. The feather is considered the breath of life, processing the power and spirit of the bird of which it was once a living part.

The eagle is big medicine. It symbolizes life, boldness, freedom, and the unity of all. In the Nations, the eagle feather must be blessed. The eagle feather must be pure, so that the recipient does not catch the evil that might be in the unblessed feather. A medicine man must bless the feather, and then it can be passed on to someone else.

A ver nire aitaren etxea defendituko dut, otsoen kontra.

These dreams were so real they left me shaken and unsure of which world I was in.

None of us can help you any more than you can help yourself—have you never thought that this

It's not so much the motorcycles themselves; it's this bogus, outlaw culture that goes along with them—the black leather, chrome death's head crap—that I find tiresome. It's all just fake. I've almost got more respect for the real outlaws than the corporate/consumerist/choreographed version, but not much.

With more than thirty thousand suicides a year, the act is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States.

And hoped to advance his own political career with a personal victory." "Like all true horse's asses, he hoped to go into politics.

Fishing—precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge." "I know what fishing is." I took a sip of

It was my father who taught me to talk to animals.He said they understand a hell of a lot more than we think they do. I remember him speaking to the horses he shod in a low and reassuring voice, explaining what he was doing to them; he said it was one of the things we owed them for their absolute, unreserved, unswerving loyalty. He said the outside of a horse is always good for the inside of a man.