“When a man is certain that he knows God's will, and is resolved to do it regardless of the cost, he is the most dangerous person in the world.”
Source: A Column of Fire
“After dinner was over, they all sat back and stories began flying around the room each more embarrassing than the last. Once his dads started telling stories about Austin as a little boy and his big crush on the paperboy, Austin stood from the table and grabbed Riley's wrist to pull him up.
“I hope you know that you make it very difficult to love you guys,” said Austin.
Mitch nodded. “We try.”
"Your tears give us our power,” Alan deadpanned.”
Source: Maybe the Sky Will Fall
“Walter Kaylin was great! He was outrageous, he just carried it off. He’d have this one guy killing a thousand other guys. Then they beat him into the ground, you think he’s dead, but he rises up again and kills another thousand guys.”
Source: Weasels Ripped My Flesh!: Two-Fisted Stories From Men's Adventure Magazines of the 1950s, '60s & '70s
“You don’t trust money to a junkie. You don’t trust money to anyone with hard needs.”
Source: He-Men, Bag Men, and Nymphos: Classic Men's Adventure Magazine Stories
“The Chinese went to their knees trying desperately to get their rifles into action, but the Mongols were on them too fast. Abusing their horses cruelly, they drove them right in among the riflemen, and men were kicked, stamped upon and died beneath frantic hooves.”
Source: He-Men, Bag Men, and Nymphos: Classic Men's Adventure Magazine Stories
“Do I have to do everything myself?" The cry was a soul-freezing mixture of rage and torment. "Ain’t there no one to stop asking questions and just do my bidding? By God, I’ll kill and kill and kill and kill and never stop killing if people don’t do what I say. I’ll beat you dummies till the blood runs out of your eyes. I’ll tie every man on this godforsaken island to a tree and he’ll bark like a dog for me to throw him a bone.”
Source: He-Men, Bag Men, and Nymphos: Classic Men's Adventure Magazine Stories
“She didn't belong anywhere and she never really belonged to anyone. And everyone else belonged somewhere and to someone. People thought she was too wonderful. But she only wanted to belong to someone. People always thought she was too wonderful to belong to them or that something too wonderful would hurt too much to lose. And that's why she liked him-- because he just thought she was crazy.”
“Passion was not love. Lust was born of impulse, a fleeting hunger, but love — it came from somewhere deeper, somewhere sacred.”
Source: Ashen Embrace (Divine Destinies
“I’m asking about the kid,” Root said. “What does she get out of it?”
“My fist in her ear if she asks as many questions as you do,” Pennant said. “You worry too much. Well, what do you say, Sultan?”
Source: He-Men, Bag Men, and Nymphos: Classic Men's Adventure Magazine Stories
“Bosch had left Nigeria with his infamous Butcher Boys—assorted sizes, shapes and colors, but all killers for a price—when his scheme to take over a native village backfired. He had figured on cleaning up by selling the village girls in the Congo but found himself dodging spears, knives and related items of cutlery instead.”
Source: He-Men, Bag Men, and Nymphos: Classic Men's Adventure Magazine Stories