Quoted from High Lonesome by Louis L'Amour

p. 49 - The idea that a decent woman could actually like being in a man's arms went against all his upbringing. His wife had…but his wife occupied a place in his consciousness that set her apart from all other women, and he could not even consider her as a sample of womanhood. She was different. She was very special.

*****Is this why so many men want to marry a 'good girl' and then promptly cheat on her with a whore? A decent woman can't love sex? A decent woman can't love sex with her partner?*****

p. 54 - His father had said something to him once that he had never forgotten. "Folks talk a lot about the maternal feeling in women, but they say nothing about man's need to protect and care for someone; yet the one feeling is as basic as the other." …..Maybe it was because he wanted to give her the things a woman needs…and no woman was much account without a home or a man, or both. Anything else was unimportant. All the rest was play-acting.

*****We as women do forget a man's need to be a provider. In today's world, it's ever increasingly difficult for there to be a one income family. So many women aren't satisfied to stay within a budget. So many couples get so caught up in wanting it 'all' and wanting it instantly that it does take two incomes to purchase it 'all'. What's wrong with just looking at each other and realizing that the other person is 'all' that's really and truly needed?*****

p. 100 - Nor does any person stand completely alone in this world, for when he passes he brushes, perhaps ever so slightly, upon others, and each is never quite the same thereafter.

*****Amen*****

p. 111 - Why did the young think that dreams were only for them? The old dream also, with less hope, less anticipation, yet they dream.

*****Amen#2*****