Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 5, p. 94 : 'Rooster Cogburn' to 'LaBoeuf'
Quotes from book
True Grit

True Grit is a 1968 novel by Charles Portis that was first published as a 1968 serial in The Saturday Evening Post. The novel is told from the perspective of a woman named Mattie Ross, who recounts the time when she was 14 and sought retribution for the murder of her father by a scoundrel, Tom Chaney. It is considered by some critics to be "one of the great American novels."The novel was adapted for the screenplay of the 1969 film True Grit starring Kim Darby, Glen Campbell, and John Wayne. Six years later, in 1975, Wayne reprised his Academy Award-winning role as the tough hard drinking one-eyed lawman in the sequel film Rooster Cogburn. In 2010, Joel and Ethan Coen wrote and directed another film adaption of the same name. In November 2010, The Overlook Press published a movie tie-in edition of the second film version of True Grit.
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 5, pp. 82-83 : 'Mattie Ross' to 'Rooster Cogburn'
“If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.”
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 5, p. 75 : thoughts of 'Mattie Ross'
“I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.”
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 3, p. 59 : 'Mattie Ross,' refusing 'Rooster Cogburn's' offer of a drink of whiskey
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 3, p. 37 : thoughts of 'Mattie Ross'
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 7, pp. 214-215 : thoughts of 'Mattie Ross'
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 6, p. 151 : exchange between 'LaBoeuf' and 'Rooster Cogburn'
“Nothing I like to do pays well.”
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 6, p. 141 : 'Rooster Cogburn' to 'Mattie Ross'
“Time just gets away from us.”
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 7, p. 215 : thoughts of 'Mattie Ross'
“We must each of us bear our own misfortunes.”
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 3, p. 32 : 'Colonel Stonehill'
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 6, p. 167 : thoughts of 'Mattie Ross'
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 5, p. 78 : thoughts of 'Mattie Ross'
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 3, p. 29 : thoughts of 'Mattie Ross'
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 2, p. 20 : thoughts of 'Mattie Ross'
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 4, p. 72 : 'Mattie Ross' to 'LaBoeuf'
“I have never been one to flinch or crawfish when faced with an unpleasant task.”
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 2, p. 20 : thoughts of 'Mattie Ross'
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 7, p. 178 : exchange between 'Lucky Ned Pepper' and 'Mattie Ross'