Michael Punke Quotes

#1. The notion of burial had always struck him as stifling and cold. He liked the Indian way better, setting the bodies up high, as if passing them to the heavens. - Author: Michael Punke

#2. Glass spotted another dog by the creek, and this one he did not spare. Soon he had a fire burning in the center of the hut. Part of the dog he roasted on a spit over the fire and part he boiled in the kettle. He threw corn into the pot with the dog meat and continued his search through the village. - Author: Michael Punke

#3. It was the right thing to do, but it could not be sustained. Not here. The - Author: Michael Punke

#4. significance could be found in a - Author: Michael Punke

#5. T]hey had killed him. [...] Murdered him, except he would not die. Would not die, he vowed, because he would live to kill his killers. - Author: Michael Punke

#6. Glass shot an irritated glance at Red, who had an uncanny knack for spotting problems and an utter inability for crafting solutions. - Author: Michael Punke

#7. The revenant, he knew, searched for him. - Author: Michael Punke

#8. Still, he thought, there was no luck at all in standing still. The next morning he would crawl forward again. If luck wouldn't find him, he would do his best to make his own. - Author: Michael Punke

#9. Glass had come to view the sea, which he once embraced as synonymous with freedom, as no more than the confining parameters of small ships. He resolved to turn a new direction. - Author: Michael Punke

#10. And if Glass believed in a god, surely it resided in this great western expanse. Not a physical presence, but an idea, something beyond man's ability to comprehend, something larger. - Author: Michael Punke

#11. I intend to do the same with him that I'd do for you or any other man in this brigade. - Author: Michael Punke

#12. As for agility, a biologist at the National Bison Range in Montana once observed a 2,000-pound bull leap up a six-foot embankment from a standing start!13 - Author: Michael Punke

#13. Why did you come to the frontier? [...] To track down a common thief? To revel in a moment's revenge? I thought there was more to you than that."

Still Glass said nothing. Finally Kiowa said, "If you want to die in the guardhouse, that's for you to decide. - Author: Michael Punke

#14. Of course it's not simple. Who said it was simple? But you know what? Lots of loose ends don't ever get tied up. Play the hand you're dealt. Move on. - Author: Michael Punke

#15. His eyes became wild, searching for reassurance in the faces surrounding him. Instead he saw the opposite - awful affirmation of his fears. - Author: Michael Punke

#16. The boy came to believe that going west was more than just a fancy for someplace new. He came to see it as a part of his soul, a missing piece that could only be made whole on some far-off mountain or plain. - Author: Michael Punke

#17. No mystery surrounded his nickname: he was enormous and he was filthy. Pig smelled so bad it confused people. When they encountered his reek, they looked around him for the source, so implausible did it seem that the odor could emanate from a human. - Author: Michael Punke

#18. If luck wouldn't find him, we would do his best to make his own. - Author: Michael Punke

#19. What sin has plagued me with this curse? - Author: Michael Punke

#20. Don't worry, little brother," he whispered, leaning back into the current's welcoming arms. "It's all downstream from here. - Author: Michael Punke

#21. If he only made three miles a day, so be it. Better to have those three miles behind him than ahead. - Author: Michael Punke

#22. there are none so deaf as those that will not hear. - Author: Michael Punke

#23. Misfortune seemed to hang on him like day-before smoke. - Author: Michael Punke

#24. plews." Glass paid the captain his full attention. Every citizen of St. Louis knew some version of Drouillard's story, but Glass had never heard a first-person account. "He did that twice, went out and came back with a pack of plews. Last thing he said before he left the third time was, - Author: Michael Punke

#25. Avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. - Rom. 12:19 - Author: Michael Punke

#26. Lots of loose ends don't ever get tied up. Play the hand you're dealt. Move on." Kiowa - Author: Michael Punke