THE ALLURE OF Montana is like a commitment to a narcotic; you can never use it up or get enough of it.… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“Sometimes if you listen, you can hear the earth stop, like it's waiting for you to catch up with it. Like it's… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“there are moments when we understand that the earth and the sky and the presences that may lie behind them are always… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
But perhaps age has taught me that the earth is still new, molten at the core and still forming, that black leaves… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“. . . I had found the edge. The place where you unstrap all your fastenings to the earth, to what you… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
In the alluvial sweep of the land, I thought I could see the past and the present and the future all at… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“Then I saw the consuming nature of her fear, her willingness to believe that exploitative charlatans could change her fate or really… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“It was the poem that explained the nature of courage and turned the mystery of death into a heroic couplet. Ultimately, it… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain their own… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“A wet cigarette butt clung to my cheek like a mashed cockroach. I could smell whiskey and beer in my clothes and Gable’s blood… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“And I suppose that what I have learned is a lesson that the years, or self-concern, had begun to hide from me, namely, that… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“The Homeric Epic does not have to be discovered inside a book; it begins just west of Fort Worth and extends all the way… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“The best moments in life are not the kind many historians record.” — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“I would almost forget about Ida Durbin. But a sin of omission, if indeed that's what it was, can be like the rusty head… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
The best thing about being a best-selling writer is being a best-selling writer. More seriously, today I can write full time and pay the… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
I sometimes subscribe to the belief that all historical events occur simultaneously, like a dream in the mind of God. Perhaps it is only… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“When a man molests a woman or girl, he steals her identity. You don't know who you are anymore. You don't have an address… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
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