Jennifer

“Nothing I like to do pays well.”
― Charles Portis, True Grit

“MR.GOUDY: I believe you testified that you backed away from Aaron Wharton.
MR.COGBURN: That is right.
MR.GOUDY: You were backing away?
MR.COGBURN: Yes sir. He had that ax raised.
MR.GOUDY: Which direction were you going?
MR.COGBURN: I always go backwards when I am backing up.”
― Charles Portis, True Grit

“As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.”
― Charles Portis, True Grit

“But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?”
― Charles Portis, True Grit