Quote by Sherry Morris

“Veronica’s hands wouldn’t stop shaking. She held the revolver straight out from her body and breathed slowly, deeply, the hot-metal smell stinging her nostrils.…

— Rob Thomas

“The pistol against her back was as hard and cold as death, and the feeling soothed her.”

— Haruki Murakami

“somewhere deep inside, her sister understood dimly that her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“As I looked at him I knew he meant what he said. He casually took his revolver out of its holster and rested it…

— Small Crimes Dave Zeltserman

“Her fingers brushed his palm as she took the piece of metal, warm from his touch, and something surprisingly like a burst of want…

— Misty Simon

“She holstered her weapon, raising the hem of her skirts and stepping lightly around the dead bodies.”

— A.F. Stewart

“Her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“He felt the chill of her secrecy, numbing him, like a poison spreading quickly through his veins.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“She reached below the seat, where she’d stashed the little revolver. “You’ll feel better having it,” Charlie had said. Suddenly she did.”

— Gwen Florio

“He's fiddling around in his pocket...nothing to worry about...all the young ones fiddle around in their pockets...a pistol? an erection?”

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“She was fast. I had to give her that. She had my weapon from my holster and her fingers wrapped around it before I…

— Grace Goodwin

“She had expected a pistol to seem light and natural-a seamless extension of her angry feral self.”

— Lorrie Moore