She Rides Shotgun Quotes

“She had a teddy bear in her arms and murder in her eyes.”
― Jordan Harper, She Rides Shotgun

“He could have laughed at how fucked up life was. That soon as you found something to live for, you found something to die for too. But he guessed in the end it was a good trade.”
― Jordan Harper, She Rides Shotgun

“You got to feel weak to get strong. Don’t run away from it.”
― Jordan Harper, She Rides Shotgun

“It’s the best part of not being real.”
― Jordan Harper, She Rides Shotgun

“She thought it was the police who were really missing. They were the ones who weren’t where they were supposed to be, which was coming to get her.”
― Jordan Harper, She Rides Shotgun

“It didn’t matter that it wasn’t real. It only mattered that it was true.”
― Jordan Harper, She Rides Shotgun

“The underpass was a tent city. The people living there dirty faced and unfed. Refugees of a war only they knew about.”
― Jordan Harper, She Rides Shotgun

“It was an intimate moment, this moment between robber and victim. A gun to the head made you naked.”
― Jordan Harper, She Rides Shotgun

“She buried her head in a towel. She scrubbed, not just her hair, but her face too, the towel scratching, pressing it into the sockets of her eyes until she saw color galaxies be born and die in the dark behind her eyelids.”
― Jordan Harper, She Rides Shotgun

“He had men for hands. It only took a few days all told before the posters came to a man with a throat-cut tattoo and fuck-you-money ambitions. Addresses were compiled. Plans made. Weapons secured. Blood pacts sealed. His will be done.”
― Jordan Harper, She Rides Shotgun

“Either you teach her how to take a punch or the world does.”
― Jordan Harper, She Rides Shotgun

“You got to feel weak to get strong.”
― Jordan Harper, She Rides Shotgun

“Group homes and orphanages were no safer than the streets. They were cages full of predators and Polly was prey.”
― Jordan Harper, She Rides Shotgun

“Looking down the barrel of a gun, you don’t see the tip of the bullet. You just see darkness, like a preview of eternity.”
― Jordan Harper, She Rides Shotgun

“...eyes don't only reflect what they're seeing. They also reflect what they've already seen.”
― Jordan Harper, She Rides Shotgun

“Billy the Kid died in the dark, asking who is it? to the man who murdered him. That's how gunslingers died. Real life didn't give you a showdown. Real life put a bullet in the back of your head.”
― Jordan Harper, She Rides Shotgun

“Free air smelled great even when it was filthy.”
― Jordan Harper, She Rides Shotgun

“The hardest thing about a fight is learning to get hit.’

‘You mean how not to get hit?’

‘You’re going to get hit,’ he said. ‘Life ain’t a video game or a school test. There’s no doing it perfect. . . '

When the bullies came after you, when they hurt you, it wasn’t the hurt that you were scared of. It was what you wanted to do, what you could do, that’s what scared you.”
― Jordan Harper, She Rides Shotgun

“She felt something strange, a thrumming in her muscles, a thrumming in her mind. It took her a second to find the word for what she felt. It was a word she hadn't gotten to use for herself in a long time. The word was power.”
― Jordan Harper, She Rides Shotgun

“...nobody belonged to anybody but themselves. Not in the end.”
― Jordan Harper, She Rides Shotgun