Fiction-novel Quote by Kathleen Kent

“He was the deadliest man in Texas, on that they all agreed.”

— James Carlos Blake

“Texas is undeniable...We were already almost out of America and yet definitely in it and in the middle of where it's maddest.”

— Jack Kerouac

“My Parents were murdered in Texas in 2010 and he never got caught-My G-d Hates me and the police did not care. Truth”

— Brenda Kay Winters

“Now we were on the great Texas plain and, as Dean said, "You drive and drive and you're still in Texas tomorrow night.”

— Jack Kerouac

“Poor New Mexico! So far from Heaven; so close to Texas.”

— Manuel Armijo

“[Yeah, thanks a lot, Sadie. You get to tell the part about the Land of the Dead. I get to describe Interstate 10 through Texas.]”

— Rick Riordan

“Tom's whole being applauded this idea. It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances, the surroundings, were in keeping with it.”

— Mark Twain

“There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough.”

— Katherine Dunn

“Texas still hadn’t been resolved.”

— Anonymous

“He made small talk on the way about how he was abandoned as a child and will only rest easy once he is avenged.…

— Harvard Lampoon

“The American Dream isn’t dead, but it seems to have developed a Texas accent.”

— Mark Davis

“If I said that I couldn't live without Tom, it wouldn't be true. Of course I can live without him. It's just that it…

— Anna Maxted