Fire in the Hole Quotes

“I thought I explained it to you. Boyd and I dug coal together.”
― Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole

“Boyd looked at him now like he was trying to decide something in his mind.
“You’d shoot me, you get the chance?”
“You make me pull,” Raylan said, “I’ll put you down.”
― Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole

“Part of Creation. Back at the beginning of time you got your mud people, referred to as beasts ’cause they don’t have souls. Okay, Adam jumped Eve and she begat Abel, the beginning of the white race as God intended. But then Satan in the form of a snake jumped Eve. She begat Cain and things got out of hand. Cain began fucking mud people, the women, and out of these fornications came the Edomites. And you know who the Edomites are?” “Tell me.” “The Jews.”
― Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole and Other Stories

“I want you to understand,” Raylan said, “I don’t pull my sidearm ‘less I’m gonna shoot to kill. That’s its purpose, huh, to kill. So it’s how I use it.”
― Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole