Charles Portis Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: b. December 28, 1933
Birthday: December 28
People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robbed him of his life and his horse and $150 in cash money plus two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band.
source: "True Grit". Book by Charles Portis, Chapter 1 (p. 9), 1968.
topic: Girl, Horse, Father, Cash Money, Arkansas, Credence, Wintertime, Forts
