Robert Davis > Quotes

“The agents of Evil were so much more conspicuous in their activities that it seemed the whole world must surely belong to them.”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror

“They sat at the head of a wide round table,”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror

“She had rode all morning,”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror

“they were still living out of the covered wagon in which they had first arrived almost a year ago.”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror

“Everything so far was proceeding according to plan, and the next few days would see things get very exciting indeed.”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror

“He had beaten her savagely after Gaunt’s first visit, and the bruises had not yet faded. Her cheek was purplish in colour, and her  left eye was still slightly swollen. She did not mind, however. ‘You know I only do it because I love you, don’t you baby?’ he had said afterwards. ‘I just can’t control myself; I love you so bad.”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror

“the walls of the cabin burst outwards in a sheet of flame. Logs were thrown high into the sky, spinning end over end before they crashed back down to earth”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror

“Some of the men fired their guns into the air for joy.”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror

“The whole company of Buffalo Soldiers had been reduced to six men”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror

“Amber interrupted him. ‘But you’ll still hurt me afterwards, won’t you?’ she asked hopefully.”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror

“like cornered rats, the people of Hellion would not go down without a fight.”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror

“The right to free speech does not give you the liberty to talk slander,”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror

“Shane rode in a thoughtful silence. He had never much believed in God. He believed in Hell, for he had seen it with his own eyes, but to even think that there was a great and powerful benevolent force watching over mankind, like a distant but loving father, had always struck him as childishly optimistic.”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror

“By the time he had reached adolescence, he had become adept at manipulating people and getting them to do what he wanted. A few well-placed words in the right ears could be twice as damaging as an equal number of bullets, and much harder to trace back to their source.”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror

“It had been a dark and stormy night.”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror

“the storm hit the back of the house. The roof was torn off instantly, and the walls smashed in. The whole building was ripped out of the ground and folded over onto itself. Josh saw the open doorway close around his mother like a mouth, swallowing her out of sight, and then the whole building was blown apart into pieces and snatched away on the wind.”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror

“Old guns are better than no guns.”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror

“it occurred to him that it might be in his best interests to kill Madison before they reached the next town. It was not the first time that he had contemplated murdering her.”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror

“There would be no more second chances.”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror

“the valley shimmered beneath a watery heat haze like a giant pool of mercury.”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror

“Consciousness returned to Shane like a unpaid whore with an angry pimp,”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror

“The town was full of murderers, gamblers and whores, few of whom might be called upon to set aside their differences and fight against the supernatural forces of evil.”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror

“Fewer than half a dozen men”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror

“If you are the Son of God throw yourself down. For it is written: He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands.” ‘Jesus answered him: “It is also written: Do not put the Lord your God to test”.”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror

“The sun burned like an open sore in a sky the colour of bleached bone.”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror

“Hazing was against regulations but it was sometimes necessary for the formation of discipline, and by God! Private Reynolds had been in need of some proper Army discipline.”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror

“Where other men saw living, breathing human beings, Shane saw only cogs in society’s engine, to manipulate and use as it suited him best.”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror

“They were pitifully few in numbers. More than two thirds of the town’s population had died in the storm,”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror

“The open grasslands frightened him and he often got the sense that there was something awful waiting just out of sight over the horizon, and that one day it would come and eat him.”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror

“Pa had loved her too much, and it had been the death of her,”
― Robert Davis, A Desire For Damnation: A Weird West Fantasy Horror