“A man learns with age, if he is lucky.”

“Over the years, she'd learned not to question him too closely—mostly because he wouldn't answer her.”

“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.”

“He had lived a very long time, and only since he gained Anna had he learned to fear. He’d discovered that he had never been brave before—just indifferent. She had taught him that to be brave, you have to fear losing something.”

“Son of a bitch. I would kill him. I didn't care if he was Coyote or the son of Satan. He was a dead man walking.”

“When a man is on the verge of passing out from pain, it seemed wrong to notice how beautiful he was.”

“You should be home sleeping. What is the use of having a man in the house, if he cannot take care of you for a while?” “Mmm,” I said. “I give up. What's the use of having a man in the house?”