17 Quotes by R.S. Belcher

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.

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!

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.

Belief is a wonderful and terrible thing.

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.

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

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.

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