Quotes About Violence

John Connolly novel, Every Dead Thing

You mean, we should only beat up young people?" Davenport asked. "There are as many old assholes as there are young ones. Especially since the boomers got old.

Pee on these plants, and you will be shot; Survivors will be shot again.

blood pumping from his neck like water from a hose.

I'm pretty delicate, Lucas admitted. You know, when I'm not beating someone senseless.

GREER WAS STANDING OVER Cole Purdy's body when Lucas and the guard got to them and Greer was looking shaky and Lucas looked down at Purdy, who was lying on his back, gray eyes open to the hot sun, but already gone dull and blank. Blood spotted the front of his T-shirt, which was pulled tight over his chest: Greer had shot him six times, all the shots in the space of two hands, including two through Purdy's heart.

Fuckin' trash, he thought. Where were the cops when you needed one?

there, looking for a man they wouldn't find. They'd go because they'd know for sure that Horn couldn't be in Goodhue County, where he'd be known and chased on sight. . . . Horn had suggested another step: killing a woman from the Alexandria area, still farther

there was an immensely satisfying crunch, at that perfect distance where your hand and knuckles don't feel it too much, and your shoulder takes up some of the recoil, and the nose guy's head rockets off your knuckles like a tennis ball flying off a racket.

nodded at Cole. "Long time ago," Marlys said. "Did he come right straight to Iowa?" Likely opened his mouth to reply, as Cole pulled the gun and in a single movement, shot

And so this could prove that these two highly trained killers were involved with the porn, and we know for sure that they've got guns." "Uh-huh." Virgil thought about that and said, "Okay.

Osborne said. "I miss Mom, though. That didn't have to happen. The guy who killed her . . . If I knew who it was, I'd think about killing him myself." "Not what you usually want to tell a couple of cops," Jenkins said. "Now if he gets run over by a car, people are going to be looking at your front bumper." "Okay, so I'll back over him," Osborne said.

Why do crazy people have guns?" Coil asked. "You'd know the answer to that better than I would, Senator," Lucas said.

Dannon brought the .22 up and shot him in the temple. Carver's head bounced off the side window and Dannon shot him again, the .22 shots deafening inside the truck, but hardly audible outside. Carver slumped, his face not even looking surprised.

Motherfucker who'd lock a live dog down in the basement," Zimmer said. "I don't think Glen would do that if he decided to kill himself. He'd at least let the dog outside. If Glen was murdered . . . Well, I can understand shooting somebody, but why would you do that to a dog?

Pilate screamed and pulled away from her and in that sliver of opportunity, Lucas shot him through the bridge of his nose. Then the screaming really got started.

Virgil had never seen a purely ideological murder, Republicans being too cautious, Democrats generally being bad shots.

One of the trucks he passed in the parking lot had a bumper sticker that asked, "Got Hollow Points?" Another said: "Heavily Armed . . . and easily pissed." A third one: "Point and Click . . . means you're out of ammo.

The bird came after Lucas again and he swatted at it with his gun, smacked it hard, two or three small feathers flying.

murdered, and that a

If you ever get in a situation where you need to shoot somebody, point the gun and keep pulling the trigger until it stops shooting. Forget about rules or excessive violence or any of that. Just keep pulling.

and a member of a neo-Nazi party and

Once a psychopathic personality had gotten that kind of rush, the kind you got from murder, he or she often needed another fix.

Occam's razor theory of combat: The simplest way of kicking someone's ass was usually the correct one.