Andrea Barrett Quotes

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.

And then there was Tick. Brave little Tick, who had flown into the faces of an army of rats to save his baby sister. Tick - who never spoke much. Tick - who shared her food. Tick - who was after all just a roach. Just a roach who had given all the time she had left so that Boots could have more. Gregor pressed Boots's fingers against his lips and felt scalding tears begin to slide down his cheeks. He hadn't cried, not the whole time he'd been down here, and there had been plenty of bad stuff. But somehow Tick's sacrifice had crushed whatever thin shell remained between him and sorrow.

I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship.

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

I was a witness to lots of death... Saving a human life was something really, really beautiful... no matter who they are. Not only Israeli people owe me their lives. I guarantee many terrorists, many Palestinian leaders, owe me their lives - or in other words, they owe my Lord their lives.

And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.

I long to die for such a true cause; I wish to expire on the bed of glory; I wish to perish at my post.

We are to die so that the motherland may live; for while we live the motherland is dying.

It’s very hard really to look a soldier in the eye when you fear that you are sending him to his death.

It is a sweet and proper thing to die for one’s country.

You come home when the war is won.

They fought together as brothers in arms; they died together and now they sleep side by side. To them we have a solemn obligation.

He is a man of the Night's Watch, She thought, as he sang about some stupid lady throwing herself off some stupid tower because her stupid prince was dead. The lady should go kill the ones who killed her prince. Arya Stark (page 514)

Tania,” he whispers, “promise me you won’t forget me when I die.” “You won’t die, soldier,” she says. “You won’t die. Live! Live on, breathe on, claw onto life, and do not let go. Promise me you will live for me, and I promise you, when you’re done, I will be waiting for you.” She is sobbing. “Whenever you’re done, Alexander, I will be here, waiting for you.

We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were only the recording of an heroic gesture which today is reenacted at every moment.

Leave war to others; 'tis Protesilaus' part of love.

Good Soldiers don't sacrifice the cause for love - Lucas If the cause isn't love then it isn't worth the sacrifice