Status Updates From The Quick and the Dead

'Her independence, she suddenly realized, had not in fact been independence at all, for she had depended on the law, on society, on all those those things that gave her freedom and entitled her to respect.'

😅😅😅I believed in my ow independence and here comes Mr L'Amour and shatters it in a single sentence. Damn!

'You got a few scratches here and there but otherwise they don't amount to much. You'll be laid up for a while, but you'll live.' He grinned. 'I reckon you will. I seen tenderfeet die of things wouldn't hurt a ten-year old girl out here, and maybe you will, too.'

'Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said, "Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry."'

''When a man takes a gun in his hand against other men he must expect to be killed. He becomes the enemy of all men when he breaks the laws of society. "

'I am his woman and am proud to be so. He is a fine man. And I am a decent woman.'
Lazily, he got to his feet and moved to his horse. 'I'll just mosey on in an' see the fun.' He swung into the saddle. 'Of course, if he gets himself killed, you got you a choice... me or them.'

😵😵😵Damn.