Perhaps his laughter saved them — it must be difficult to shoot a laughing man: you have to feel important to kill. The Lawless Roads (1939)
I suppose the love of life which periodically deserts most men was returning: like sexual desire, it moves in cycles. The Lawless Roads (1939)
The old lady knelt, saying her 'Hail Mary'; She didn't believe — but among Catholics even the sceptical are courteous. The Lawless Roads (1939)
Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps — violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on. The Lawless Roads (1939)
But the great moment was over — here in Orizaba it was like Galilee between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection — all the enthusiasm had been spent. The Lawless Roads (1939)