“People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robbed him of his life and his horse and $150 in cash money plus two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band.”
― True Grit
― True Grit
“You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?"
"I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed.”
― True Grit
"I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed.”
― True Grit
“Time just gets away from us.”
― True Grit
― True Grit
“Lookin' back is a bad habit.”
― True Grit
― True Grit
“You go for a man hard and fast enough and he don't have time to think about how many is with him, he thinks about himself and how he may get clear out of the wrath that is about to set down on him.”
― True Grit
― True Grit
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