"Was still between Martha and Jane, then, I was. Between the girl I was and who I wanted to be."
- J.D. Jordan
"I tell you, mister, if there’s anything good about being a hot-tempered bitch, it’s knowing right well what buttons to push in others seeing as they’re the same ones what get your own back up."
"And if revenge was all I had, then I was goddamned if it wouldn’t be enough."
"what I like and what I need’s two different things."
"That got me to laughing too. His laughter, like his yelling, got into you until you was right soaked with it. So you couldn’t help yourself. But it felt good. Light. I tell you, I hadn’t felt like tha..."
"Can’t count on no miracles. Sometimes, you just got to have a plan."
"The terrible price of living, ain’t it? To live through others dying?"
"not knowing what I needed to do or where I needed to go, I knew all the same that I was going in the right direction."
"Don’t matter none how bad it gets sometimes. You can always turn this shit around."
"Ain’t nothing scarier than someone with nothing."