The Six-Gun Tarot Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Death frames our joys,”
― R.S. Belcher, The Six-Gun Tarot

“...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

“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

“Because music is like hope. Between the strings in this box," he ran his fingers along the keys of the piano and began to play once again, "and the strings in the heart, there is nothing but air and magic. Songs can lead men laughing into battle, lay strong men low, make you fall in love, let you visit with the dead. Ain't nothing real to it - just words and rhythm - but it's got power, all the same.”
― R.S. Belcher, The Six-Gun Tarot

“And the good, good people of the small town of Golgotha, many of them, when they saw the Stained, saw what they did to those they caught up to; they forgot to love their neighbor, forgot to lend a helping hand, forgot to do unto others as they would have them do unto themselves. They ran, ran like animals frightened by the storm. Pushing, shoving, the weak, the innocent, the frail, all falling under their feet. Many of the souls Golgotha called, called to across the desert, across the plains and the oceans and the night sky, many of them were not good people.”
― R.S. Belcher, The Six-Gun Tarot

“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

“The knives hummed from her hand like angry hornets, straight toward her daughter's heart.”
― R.S. Belcher, The Six-Gun Tarot

“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

“I say a man that lets his religion git in the way of his drinking is a fella with his cart 'fore his horse.”
― R.S. Belcher, The Six-Gun Tarot

“It was a good body, and she knew it deep inside, but it was hard to feel it under the weight of her life.”
― R.S. Belcher, The Six-Gun Tarot

“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

“Did you realize that much of the original Bible included chapters of Gnostic wisdom?" Ambrose said. "They were purged from the King James Version, many of them lost and destroyed. Lost wisdom destroyed out of fear and narrow-mindedness. They were misunderstood, reviled, much like your own Mormon texts, as not fitting with the clockwork view of the universe as presented by the lying god's groveling servants.”
― R.S. Belcher, The Six-Gun Tarot

“You don't know what they do up there on that mountain, do you, Sheriff? It's tossing and turning. It eats the heart of the world, like a worm burrowing an apple! Maybe the preacher's right and my faith is just shivering, weak—is it wrong for me to try to keep them from hollowing me out from inside? I should just blow all of you stupid bastards back to Kingdom Come, while it's still there! Before they burn down Heaven and feast on the corpse. Maybe we should all die now, better that way!”
― R.S. Belcher, The Six-Gun Tarot