Sitka Charley started. There had been more than one shot, yet there was but one other rifle in the party. He gave a fleeting glance at the men who lay so quietly, smiled viciously at the wisdom of the trail, and hurried on to meet the Men of the Yukon.
Jack LondonAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist, Writer
- Nationality: american
- Born: January 12, 1876
- Died: November 22, 1916
Related Authors
Topics
Quotes currently Trending
![Charles Manson quote: "Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean..."](/pic/110133/600x316/quotation-charles-manson-just-because-youre-convicted-in-a-court-room.jpg)
In fact I no longer value this kind of memento. I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted. There was a period, a long period, dating from my childhood until quite recently, when I thought I did. A period during which I believed that I could keep people fully present, keep them with me, by preserving their mementos, their "things," their totems.
Joan Didion
![Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise,..."](/pic/300403/600x316/quotation-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-we-must-always-change-renew.jpg)
![Robert Staughton Lynd quote: "One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into..."](/pic/101334/600x316/quotation-robert-staughton-lynd-one-of-the-greatest-joys-known-to-man-is.jpg)
![Mark Haddon quote: " . .loving someone is helping them when they get in trouble,..."](/pic/250586/600x316/quotation-mark-haddon-loving-someone-is-helping-them-when-they-get-in.jpg)
I was flattered that she wanted to speak to me, because of all the older girls I admired her most. She asked me if I was going to the Red Cross and make bandages. I was. Well, then, would I tell them that she couldn't come that day? The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since. His name was Jay Gatsby and I didn't lay eyes on him again for over...
F. Scott Fitzgerald