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"Riders of the Purple Sage" Quotes
In "Riders of the Purple Sage," a mysterious gunslinger arrives in a Utah border town to help a woman rancher fight oppression and personal vendettas amid the stark beauty of the western frontier.
Quotes
Life had been anything but happy for Jane Withersteen.
Right near the door stood a bold, rough rider.
She was the warmth, the glow, the fire of youth incarnate. Something of the red of the lily was in her cheeks. The brown eyes, now dreamy and darkling, were once open wide to every stray bit of mischief or fun.
He understood that faith which rides into the unknown and never stops before dangers, the faith which no logic can analyze.
Lassiter's passion for life, his bitter hate and love of women, seemed intensified.
She turned white with a realization that she had not submissively waited for him as he had expected.
He caught her to him and held her that way for a long moment.
Don't you reckon it's no easy matter to keep sheep alive and well on this range?
A noble calm, a certain aloofness, impressed him with the truth that beauty had really come to mean something good to him.
A sweet, haunted hazel, with the vision of unshed tears.
