30 Quotes by Michael Punke

When the need arose, a man extended a helping hand to his friends, to his partners, to strangers. In so doing, each knew that his own survival might one day depend upon the reaching grasp of another.

I intend to do the same with him that I’d do for you or any other man in this brigade.

Against this backdrop of an imagined future, Bridger poled the sluggish ferry. To and fro, back and forth, motion without progression, never venturing so much as a mile beyond the fixed points of the two landings. It was the polar opposite of the life he imagined for himself, a life of wandering and exploration through country unknown, a life in which he never once retraced his steps.

Cause he got everything to lose.

What sin has plagued me with this curse?

Glass shot an irritated glance at Red, who had an uncanny knack for spotting problems and an utter inability for crafting solutions.

His eyes became wild, searching for reassurance in the faces surrounding him. Instead he saw the opposite – awful affirmation of his fears.

If luck wouldn’t find him, he would do his best to make his own.

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.