Vengeance Road Quotes

“For some reason, this is the moment I know I’m gonna be all right; that the hurt might never fade, and my heart might always long for a stubborn cowboy with squinty eyes, but I’ll make do. Sure as the sun will rise.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“Gold makes monsters of men.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“When I were first learning to shoot a rifle, Pa told me that nearly every battle people face is in their heads.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“Money’s supposed to fix problems, not give you more, but I guess life ain’t that straightforward.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“Life don't care 'bout sorry's," Will says. "Bad things happen, and you can't let 'em harden you. Whatever happened to yer pa, it ain't yer fault, Nate, and you gotta let it go.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“When I were first learning to shoot a rifle, Pa told me that nearly every battle people face is in their heads. If you think you can't do something, you won't. If you believe you can, it's only a matter of time before you will.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“People don't gotta like the same stuff. If they did, life would be pretty boring.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“Hell, I'll be safest pretending I'm a boy the rest of my life. The frontier ain't for the faint of heart, and it certainly ain't kind to women. Sometimes I think the whole world's 'gainst us.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“Sure, sometimes you gotta let things go, but other times you can't till you set things right. And I know darn well it ain't worth arguing with a preacher. The only truths they believe are their own words.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“It is funny how the things we hate are the things we miss most when they are gone”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“Jesse finishes paying for his drinks and turns. It takes only half a second, but his eyes burn a trail from my dress's neckline to its hem and back again. "The dress'll do," he says.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“A strong drink can numb the soul as good as any prayer”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“He sips his drink and it leaves his handlebar mustache dripping like a cattle dog come outta a river.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“Maybe he kept the act going as long as possible, till a faked death were the only way to keep my memory of her pure and clean and something worth loving.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“Life don’t care ’bout sorry’s,” Will says. “Bad things happen, and you can’t let ’em harden you.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“[His eyes] gleaming like a demon done the devil's work”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“It shows damn near everything. I's been hiding my breasts for so long, I half forgot I had 'em.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“I wonder how many people Jesse Colton can bear losing before he won’t be Jesse Colton no more.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“The only truths they believe are thier own words.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“Sure, sometimes you gotta let things go, but other times you can't till you set things right.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“Sometimes you gotta let the people you love go.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“If you think you can’t do something, you won’t. If you believe you can, it’s only a matter of time before you will.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“That's the best part about legends: tons of holes and discrepancies just waiting to be theorized.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“If novels are a luxury, poetry's another thing entirely.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“Bad things happen, and you can't let 'em harden you.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“If you think you can do something, you won't. If you believe you can, it's only a matter of time before you will.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“Not all that tempts your wand'ring eyes and heedless hearts is lawful prize; Nor all that glisters, gold.
—Thomas Gray”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“Poetry don’t make yer crops grow better or keep Apache from raiding yer land. It’s just a bunch of flowery words that could mean any number of things depending on yer interpretation. I think it’s a heck of a lot less trouble to just say what you mean.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“Then you ain’t found the right book yet,”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“Nearly every battle people face is in their heads. If you think you can't do something, you won't. If you believe you can, it's only a matter of time before you will.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road