{"quotes":[{"text":"Ain’t no good ever comes of it, if you ain’t steering yourself.","author":"J.D. Jordan","tags":["calamity","calamity-jane","confidence","scifi","western"],"id":4704,"author_id":"J.D.+Jordan"},{"text":"But tell you true, I honestly didn’t think nothing about the Green Man beefing that posse. Was just men and the world’s full of them.","author":"J.D. Jordan","tags":["calamity","calamity-jane","gunfight","gunfighting","men","posse","scifi","western"],"id":6521,"author_id":"J.D.+Jordan"},{"text":"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.","author":"J.D. Jordan","tags":["calamity","calamity-jane","coming-of-age","confidence","loneliness","loss","scifi","western"],"id":17306,"author_id":"J.D.+Jordan"},{"text":"I tell you, mister, if there’s anything good about being a hot-tempered bitch, it’s knowing right well what buttons to push in others seeing as they’re the same ones what get your own back up.","author":"J.D. Jordan","tags":["anger","angry","bitch","buttons","calamity","calamity-jane","coming-of-age","scifi","temper","western"],"id":40142,"author_id":"J.D.+Jordan"},{"text":"Wasn’t no bit of me willing to ride shotgun to my own funeral.","author":"J.D. Jordan","tags":["calamity","calamity-jane","coming-of-age","confidence","death","funeral","scifi","western"],"id":65248,"author_id":"J.D.+Jordan"},{"text":"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.","author":"J.D. Jordan","tags":["calamity","calamity-jane","choices","coming-of-age","conversation","loss","love","regret","scifi","western"],"id":82752,"author_id":"J.D.+Jordan"},{"text":"And if revenge was all I had, then I was goddamned if it wouldn’t be enough.","author":"J.D. Jordan","tags":["calamity","calamity-jane","coming-of-age","revenge","scifi","western"],"id":132688,"author_id":"J.D.+Jordan"},{"text":"Was still between Martha and Jane, then, I was. Between the girl I was and who I wanted to be.","author":"J.D. Jordan","tags":["calamity","calamity-jane","coming-of-age","confidence","scifi","western"],"id":169861,"author_id":"J.D.+Jordan"},{"text":"Not knowing what I needed to do or where I needed to go, I knew all the same that I was going in the right direction.","author":"J.D. Jordan","tags":["calamity","calamity-jane","coming-of-age","direction","moving","scifi","western"],"id":169970,"author_id":"J.D.+Jordan"},{"text":"The terrible price of living, ain’t it? To live through others dying?","author":"J.D. Jordan","tags":["calamity","calamity-jane","coming-of-age","death","life","scifi","western"],"id":221153,"author_id":"J.D.+Jordan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}