Ronald Weston

“Funny things that come over you then. What did I think of? Death, and all that—and did the faces of dead gunmen bob up before me? No, just one thing shot through my mind. I skipped back to my childhood and seemed to be with Alice, of Alice in Wonderland fame, as she fell down the rabbit hole. Queer that—but true, just the same.”
― Carroll John Daly, The Snarl of the Beast: Race Williams #17

“Them that live by the gun should die by the gun, is good sound twentieth century gospel.”
― Carroll John Daly, The Snarl of the Beast: Race Williams #17

“The dead so soon grow cold.” Funny that I got that off. It was years since I had read Oscar Wilde or any of his wise cracks.”
― Carroll John Daly, The Snarl of the Beast: Race Williams #17

“It all sounds like braggadocio, I suppose. But I can’t help that. It’s just the way I felt. Truth is truth, you know.”
― Carroll John Daly, The Snarl of the Beast: Race Williams #17