Jim Mattis Quotes

In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked.

You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.

The trouble with shooting people, Edie Banister now remembers, is that it's so hard to do just one.

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

If you really kill, you don't want to talk about it.

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

I'm not proud of killing, of being responsible for the death of a single person. I never will be.

In 'Last to Die,' three children living in different cities are the only survivors when their families are slaughtered. Two years later, their foster families are murdered, and these three orphans are once again the only survivors.

As crime writers, we put these characters, year after year, book after book, through the most horrendous trauma, dealing with grief and death and loss and violence. We can't pretend that these things don't affect these characters; they have to. If they don't, then you're essentially writing cartoons.

I've never met a murderer as far as I know. I would hate to.

Did I kill anyone?

I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.

… murderer and peasant slayer

Killing rips the soul apart.

But when you kill someone you love, the hard part is never over. It just gets easier to distract yourself from what you've done.

the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982

None of my problems come from the people I've killed.

Killing makes me feel good.

If you run across a dog driving, would you ever forget that? You could never forget that, that bump. It'll haunt you for the rest of your life. Imagine if you killed a human being. You're not going to forget that. Well, I killed many.

Everything has to do with murder.

Click bang, what a hang, your daddy just shot poor me.

We killed an innocent girl

He kills people. Now I'm no expert, but doesn't that make you a bad person?" Jamie glared at Nick. "You've killed a lot more people than he has. What does that make you?" "Not a person," Nick murmured, not sounding particularly interested. "Surely you remember.

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.