R.S. Belcher QUOTES

1 " Guns are like men—only useful for a little while. They can go off at a moment's notice when you don't want them to and they make a lot of damn fool noise doing it. "

― R.S. Belcher , The Six-Gun Tarot (Golgotha, #1)

2 " Man,ought to take care o his own business.don't you think, Mr. Mayor? "

― R.S. Belcher

3 " Regrets will eat a man up. My pa told me that. Said you should always try to make your peace when you can, 'cause no man knows what the Lord has in store for us tomorrow. "

― R.S. Belcher , The Six-Gun Tarot (Golgotha, #1)

4 " God simply is,” Bick said. “Humanity embraced It. They gave It color and gender, shape and form. They put words in Its mouth. They always have, and they still do, perhaps they always will. I always experience God as a 'He,' but God is too vast to be held prisoner by language of biology. "

― R.S. Belcher , The Shotgun Arcana (Golgotha, #2)

5 " However...," Satan said.
Bick sighed. "However, I didn't count on the growing interference of lawyers, regulators, bureaucrats and politicians into my business. I swear it seems that every year they stick their noses into more and more."
Lucifer chuckled. "Sorry about that-I outdid myself there. "

― R.S. Belcher , The Six-Gun Tarot (Golgotha, #1)

6 " Belief has power. Getting someone else to believe what you believe has even greater power. I’ve always been all about the power, not so much with the following or the believing. I believe in me, that’s pretty much it. Believe in someone else too much and they’ll fail you or screw you, or both. "

― R.S. Belcher , Nightwise (Nightwise, #1)

7 " -hatred is like a shotgun. It's powerful and it rips apart everything in its path-good, bad or indifferent. "

― R.S. Belcher , The Shotgun Arcana (Golgotha, #2)

8 " The kind of nonsense they put into a lass's head from day one! How is any woman expected to have a voice as strong as a man's, to have the will to overcome like a man, to conquer and triumph like a bloody soddin' pego-wielding Richard! They're not to! Oh no! That's the reason for the stories, lass! To lock you down good and tight, to wrap you up in guilt and shame just for being what you are. Bloody bastards! "

― R.S. Belcher , The Six-Gun Tarot (Golgotha, #1)

9 " I am the Mother's blade, the Mother's wrath... You have poisoned her, raped her and her children. Left her to die. Now you will suffer, you will die. "

― R.S. Belcher , The Six-Gun Tarot (Golgotha, #1)

10 " The tyrant-father of Heaven, the one who created, hated and drove out the first woman, yoked men with a horrible curse, far worse than any imagined to have been handed down to Eve. Men were told they were masters of this world, of their mates, of the beasts and fish, of the land and sea and sky. How ridiculous! That's like telling a little boy he's in charge of the house when his da is gone. It's silly!

"And like that little boy, men have tried to live up to the unreasonable demands of their mute, wayward, celestial father. They have enslaved and dominated, conquered and killed, all in the name of shepherding, of protecting, of ruling the world. They spend their lives trying to do what they think is right, what their father on high would want of them. The bastard. "

― R.S. Belcher , The Six-Gun Tarot (Golgotha, #1)

11 " Belief is a wonderful and terrible thing. "

― R.S. Belcher , The Shotgun Arcana (Golgotha, #2)

12 " ...the white man's God was a lot like him. He never for a second figured there was anyone else already here. He figured it was all just here waiting for Him to do whatever He wanted to with it. And boy, do white people love to do stuff, jut to do it. "

― R.S. Belcher , The Six-Gun Tarot (Golgotha, #1)

13 " Where did payback end exactly? Charlie Upton had murdered Jim's Pa. Jim killed Charlie. One day Jim might get shot or hanged for what he did to Charlie and sometone like Mutt or Jon Highfather might seek revenge in his name. How far back did the blood flow? When was it enough? Could anything ever get square? "

― R.S. Belcher , The Shotgun Arcana (Golgotha, #2)

14 " This far below the earth, the only reminders a man carries that such a verdant place even existed were whatever he carried in the bone vault of his mind. "

― R.S. Belcher

15 " Death frames our joys, "

― R.S. Belcher , The Six-Gun Tarot (Golgotha, #1)

16 " The wider the doors of perception were thrown open, the more you began to wish someone would shut the fucking door and stop letting all the damned flies in. "

― R.S. Belcher , The Night Dahlia (Nightwise, #2)

17 " We understand so little about life or its sister, death. Look at this animal. Why was it, a moment ago, alive and feeling and thinking and now it is changed and dead? Why?"

"'Cause you shot it," Jim said. "

― R.S. Belcher , The Six-Gun Tarot (Golgotha, #1)

18 " The knives hummed from her hand like angry hornets, straight toward her daughter's heart. "

― R.S. Belcher , The Six-Gun Tarot (Golgotha, #1)

19 " This is Golgotha: people tend to end up dead in these here parts; it's kind of a town tradition. "

― R.S. Belcher , The Six-Gun Tarot (Golgotha, #1)

20 " A man carries his faith in him, not in some god of book or manifest destiny."

~ Jon Highfather "

― R.S. Belcher , The Shotgun Arcana (Golgotha, #2)

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