Calamity: Being an Account of Calamity Jane and Her Gunslinging Green Man
J.D. Jordan
Top 10 Best Quotes
“what I like and what I need’s two different things.”
“wasn’t no bit of me willing to ride shotgun to my own funeral.”
“Was Jane now. All Jane. Come calamity or come calm, was myself and none else.”
“The terrible price of living, ain’t it? To live through others dying?”
“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 that in a long while.”
“No. Some you put to the bullet. Some to the tongue. Reckon we’ll have to see, yet, which way this is going to turn.”
“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.”
“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 in the night and some long ago tangling of limbs. And about them betrayals done time and time again—by both of us—what led to me pointing the Green Man’s rifle at the man what once loved me under the Green Man’s stars.”
“And if revenge was all I had, then I was goddamned if it wouldn’t be enough.”
“Ain’t no good ever comes of it, if you ain’t steering yourself.”
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