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1 " Hell, I'll be safest pretending I'm a boy the rest of my life. The frontier ain't for the faint of heart, and it certainly ain't kind to women. Sometimes I think the whole world's 'gainst us. "
― Erin Bowman , Vengeance Road (Vengeance Road, #1)
2 " It is funny how the things we hate are the things we miss most when they are gone "
3 " Sure, sometimes you gotta let things go, but other times you can't till you set things right. And I know darn well it ain't worth arguing with a preacher. The only truths they believe are their own words. "
4 " It shows damn near everything. I's been hiding my breasts for so long, I half forgot I had 'em. "
5 " When I were first learning to shoot a rifle, Pa told me that nearly every battle people face is in their heads. If you think you can't do something, you won't. If you believe you can, it's only a matter of time before you will. "
6 " He sips his drink and it leaves his handlebar mustache dripping like a cattle dog come outta a river. "
7 " A strong drink can numb the soul as good as any prayer "
8 " Poetry don’t make yer crops grow better or keep Apache from raiding yer land. It’s just a bunch of flowery words that could mean any number of things depending on yer interpretation. I think it’s a heck of a lot less trouble to just say what you mean. "
9 " Gold makes monsters of men. "
10 " That's the best part about legends: tons of holes and discrepancies just waiting to be theorized. "
11 " People don't gotta like the same stuff. If they did, life would be pretty boring. "
12 " [His eyes] gleaming like a demon done the devil's work "
13 " For some reason, this is the moment I know I’m gonna be all right; that the hurt might never fade, and my heart might always long for a stubborn cowboy with squinty eyes, but I’ll make do. Sure as the sun will rise. "
14 " When I were first learning to shoot a rifle, Pa told me that nearly every battle people face is in their heads. "
15 " Money’s supposed to fix problems, not give you more, but I guess life ain’t that straightforward. "
16 " Life don't care 'bout sorry's," Will says. "Bad things happen, and you can't let 'em harden you. Whatever happened to yer pa, it ain't yer fault, Nate, and you gotta let it go. "
17 " Jesse finishes paying for his drinks and turns. It takes only half a second, but his eyes burn a trail from my dress's neckline to its hem and back again. "The dress'll do," he says. "
18 " Maybe he kept the act going as long as possible, till a faked death were the only way to keep my memory of her pure and clean and something worth loving. "
19 " Life don’t care ’bout sorry’s,” Will says. “Bad things happen, and you can’t let ’em harden you. "
20 " Sometimes you gotta let the people you love go. "