“I appreciate your thinking on me, marshal, but ain’t no trouble of his what ain’t trouble of mine, too.”

“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 ...”

“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 o...”

“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.”

“wasn’t no bit of me willing to ride shotgun to my own funeral.”

“We go from one war to another; we go from one terrorist group to another and we go from one calamity to another, but there is a pattern there if you know where to look.It's amazing how when one war...”

“If you can defeat your own calamity, you will be a hope for others and thus you can defeat the calamity of others too!”

“Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climat...”