Lisa Kleypas Quotes

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Blood and death. That moves me.

And the general shot my sister. I could not look at her, but I remember the sound of when she hit the ground. I hear that sound when things hit the ground still. Anything.' If I could, I would make it so nothing ever hit the ground again.

I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!

And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They killed a boss so often and so completely they had to bring him back to life to pulp him one more time. Tasting hot mealcake among pine trees, they beat it away. Singing love songs to Mr. Death, they smashed his head. More than the rest, they killed the flirt whom folks called Life for leading them on.

I saw my own blood and I thought, how could I live in a world where this exists- where love can become death?

Both of us will die today, gunned down or smashed up or exploded in some terrible moment of fire and twisted metal, and when they go to bury us we'll be so melted together and entwined they won't be able to separate the bodies; pieces of him will go with me, and pieces of me will go with him.

Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you.

There was no other sound in the world like a car crash.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

Wars break things; they break stories.

At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.

War is not a thing one wants.

The War will leave none of us as it found us.

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.

War is about dead people.

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.

War taught me that not everything is glamorous.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.