Joanne Harris Quotes

Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept.

When war begins, then hell openeth.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)

You speak as if a war were raging." "To the remains of the human race, one is.

This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped.

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.

War is like night, she said. It covers everything.

The brazen throat of war.

War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.

[I]t seems that the Cannibals of Europe are going to eat one another again. A war between Russia and Turkey is like the battle of the kite and snake; whichever destroys the other, leaves a destroyer the less for the world.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war.

In time of war, the Devil makes more room in Hell.

War is death's feast.

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.