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1 " He held up the AK-47, the muscles in his arm bunching against the weight. “This is an assault rifle.” Then held up the handgun. “This is a semi-automatic pistol.” Then he gave a little thrust of his hips and looked down at his penis. “That is my gun. As you’ve discovered, it’s pumpaction like a shotgun , but it doesn’t fire bullets. "
― Pamela Clare , Breaking Point (I-Team, #5)
2 " Standing before this building, I learn something about fear. I learn that it is not the idle fantasies of someone who maybe wants something important to happen to him, even if the important thing is horrible. It is not the disgust of seeing a dead stranger, and not the breathlessness of hearing a shotgun pumped outside of Becca Arrington’s house. This cannot be addressed by breathing exercises. This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed. This is the fear that made fish crawl onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead. "
― John Green , Paper Towns
3 " Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic? "
― Natalie Angier , Woman: An Intimate Geography
4 " – No SF novel ever won the Booker, growls a prowling clansman on his way into the SF Café.The librarian swings a shotgun from inside her longcoat, blasts the bullshit axiom from the air. Screw the Booker, she thinks. She’d rather have a hookah. "
― Hal Duncan , Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions
5 " Luther had passed many a white church in his day, heard them singing their hymns and chanting their " Amens" and seen them gather on a porch or two afterward with their lemonade and piety, but he knew if he ever showed up on their steps, starving or injured, the only response he’d get to a plea for human kindness would be the amen of a shotgun pointed in his face. "
6 " They were shot with a shotgun and put in garbage bags and thrown under a bridge," Shrake said. " If it wasn't murder, it was a really weird accident. "
7 " I got a shotgun and a backhoe and no one looks under a septic tank for a dead body. (Bubba) "
― Sherrilyn Kenyon , Infinity (Chronicles of Nick, #1)
8 " As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas. "
9 " When I was a kid in Nebraska, a cantankerous farmer, known for plinking with his '22 at passing cars in which he perceived enemies, ingeniously rigged up a shotgun in his house, trained on the inside of his front door so as to widely distribute any intruder. "
