Quotes from Craig Johnson

Words are important, no matter what the language—they are perhaps one of the most powerful things we have. Words can preserve life or invoke death and should be handled with the same care as any deadly weapon.

it wasn't that we had been so brave or bold, but that we'd simply traded one fear for another—afraid of what we were about to do for the fear of what we might not. "How

I glanced at the Bear, who shook his head. "As much as it pains me to say, you are the better horseman." I shook my head. "It's an Appaloosa. Isn't that the horse the Cheyenne traditionally rode into battle?" "It was, because by the time you ride an Appaloosa some distance, you are ready to kill anything.

I wandered past Vic's office and looked in at the explosion of legal pads. The display was daunting, and I would be cursed at if I messed up any of what I'm sure was a carefully detailed arrangement. We were little but we were mighty. I thought of Don Quixote, being far too powerful to war with mere mortals and pleading for giants. I

snowflakes make when they land on water, like the wail of a coyote; the sound reaches a climax and then fades away, all in about one

WHEN THE POWER OF LOVE OVERCOMES THE LOVE OF POWER, THE WORLD SHALL KNOW PEACE.

Bring to mind your loved ones, they are the compass points in your existence, no matter where or when you are—they will guide you home, even if it is only their names.

It was strange the paths the human heart chose to take and the attachments it made along the way. The surest sign of the altruistic nature of the organ is its ability to ignore race, color, creed, and gender and just blindly love with all its might—one of the most irrefutable forces on earth. They

I do not worry about dying and someday I will die - whereas you worry about dying and someday you will die

Never, but never, go sneaking around in your own house at odds with some stranger.

He laughed. "You must remember that we are also valuable not only in action but because we are more than the sum of our memories.

disarray, but nothing like the ones downstairs.

That's how it worked, though. Motive and opportunity rode along like two out of four apocalyptic equestrians, grinning with their bony death heads at us lesser humans as we fumbled along, refusing to believe the obvious.

Combining the gait of a fine horse, the comfort of your favorite Indian blanket, and the ease of a well-worn saddle, Mark Langley's Path of the Dead is one heck of a debut novel coming out of the gate. —Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire Mysteries, the basis for the Netflix drama Longmire.

sidewinder. I didn't even bother pretending

Ozzie's head remained

there's a goodlookin' woman behind every tree . . ." He joined me for the rest. "There just ain't any trees.

There are not enough Indians in the world to beat the Seventh Cavalry. —GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The story of Cassilly Adams's painting Custer's Last Fight, approaches the drama of the historic moment it depicts and is something I've wanted to write about for some time.

revenge doesn't ever fit when there aren't any bad guys.

It is one of your most annoying traits." He opened his eyes, and the weight of them lay upon me like darkness. "Please

I haven't figured out how to turn it on, but when I do I'm going to be hell on wheels.

though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will live forever. If I don't, I sure as hell won't become an unattended death in the state of Wyoming with sheep shit all over me.

In the cold, gray dawn of September the twenty-eighth . . ." Dickens. ". . . The slippery bank where the life of Cody Pritchard came to an ignominious end . . ." Faulkner. "Questioning society with the simple query, why?" Steinbeck. "Dead." Hemingway.

noise and come