"I appreciate your thinking on me, marshal, but ain’t no trouble of his what ain’t trouble of mine, too."
- J.D. Jordan
"Seems a lot of men never saw one such as me. A girl what could keep up and fight and ride and curse with the best of them. A girl what ain’t trapped in some dress or some house or some bed. A girl wha..."
"But wasn’t time for what was. Was time to settle up the future."
"And in the silence what followed, I reckon our eyes had some long conversation our mouths could’ve never talked through. Some long, looking talk about things gone and long since said. About cries out ..."
"Maybe I’d lost something. Maybe I’d lost a lot—more, even, than I could suffer—but I still had my own self. And lonesome as I might be, wasn’t no force on Earth or from above what could make me less."
"But tell you true, I honestly didn’t think nothing about the Green Man beefing that posse. Was just men and the world’s full of them."
"wasn’t no bit of me willing to ride shotgun to my own funeral."
"I was the luckiest girl. Don’t you think because I didn’t have no proper man or husband I was anything else. Wasn’t no place I’d rather be than right there. Even now, I pine for that uncomfortable roc..."
"Ain’t no good ever comes of it, if you ain’t steering yourself."
"Was like the Green Man said, some you got to put to the bullet. Some to the tongue. Often the latter, with me. But some, you just got to put behind you."