“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 aint trapped in some dress or some house or some bed. A girl w...”

“But wasnt time for what was. Was time to settle up the future.”

“I appreciate your thinking on me, marshal, but aint no trouble of his what aint trouble of mine, too.”

“Was Jane now. All Jane. Come calamity or come calm, was myself and none else.”

“And in the silence what followed, I reckon our eyes had some long conversation our mouths couldve never talked through. Some long, looking talk about things gone and long since said. About cries ou...”

“Maybe Id lost something. Maybe Id lost a lotmore, even, than I could sufferbut I still had my own self. And lonesome as I might be, wasnt no force on Earth or from above what could make me less.”

“There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sp...”

“My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me - the humiliation of it - as a soprano.These, by contrast, are...”

“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”

“Do not allow yourself to be blinded by fear and anger. Everything is only as it is.”

“Never get angry. If you have to get angry, get angry at yourself and not at others.”

“And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.”

“Whos happy? Happy is just what people think they are when they cant find anything to bitch about.”

“Sometimes you have to be a bitch to get things done.”

“Are you a female dog?""What?" Massie asked. "Why?"”