Quotes from Thunder and Rain

“She cried easily. Evidence that she felt much, and most often for other people. A rare and beauty filled gift.”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain

“You rescued me when I thought nobody would. When I thought I wasn't worth the effort. You gave me everything and asked for nothing.'
She pressed her face to mine.
'If this is love on the other side of the rescue, then I want to live it. With you. But,'
She shook her head.
'But if you give you to me, then'-
she placed her palm flat across my chest
-'come heavy”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain

“What do you want in a woman, in life?'

I thought a moment...'The Rangers...we began to describe one another in a few simple words: El es muy bueno para cabalgar el rio. Meaning, 'He'll do to ride the river with.' In Texan, it means, 'I'd trust him with my life.'

I scratched my head. 'I want someone to ride the river with.”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain

“They say God made man, but Sam Colt made them equal.”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain

“What I'm trying to say, and not doing a very good job at, is...will you ride the river with me?”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain

“He traced a line in the dirt with his toe. ‘This is a battlefield. Has been since Cain killed Abel. And don’t let it get complicated. Gray it ain’t. It’s black and white. Good versus evil. You might as well choose sides right now.”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain

“... there's a big difference between being judgmental and making a judgment.”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain

“Sometimes the most courageous thing a man can do is run back across the battlefield and rescue the wounded.”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain

“What do you dream?
To live with and alongside... rather than without and alone.”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain

“In my experience, it’s those words on the tip of the tongue that we most need to hear. They are the key. The thing that’s missing. But you can’t pull them out. They have to be offered. Freely. And they won’t be offered until the owner trusts you with them. And to do that means they’ve got to break through a world of hurt and pain just to get them out of their mouth.”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain

“... some people take all the pain they've been knowing their whole life and pack it down inside them where it festers, oozing pus. Gangrene of the soul. That sore then becomes them. It's what bubbles up. You can smell it.”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain

“... I know I'm not alone and I don't walk alone. That I won't. When the thin whisper of a veil between what I can't see and what I can is pulled back and for one brief second I get a glimpse of what will be. Where the words 'might' and 'hope' intersect.”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain

“... sometimes it's hard to see what could be, what we hope for, through the hurting part of what is, 'cause sometimes stuff hurts so much that we can't see nothing. But then sometimes what we hope for, well, seems like if we hope it long enough, hard enough, deep enough, it becomes what it.”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain

“Greatest trick ever played on mankind is that somewhere, somebody sold us a bill of goods convincing us that evil ain’t real.” I”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain

“If you’re riding a dead horse… dismount.”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain

“We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain

“you know how sometimes you walk outside, like out of a cold room, and the sun is coming up and it feels warm on your face? And all you want to do is stand there and soak it up? Well, that’s kind of how I feel. I want to stand here and soak in this a while.”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain

“the kid was leaning against the window.”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain

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