Seanan McGuire Quotes

Seen through the eyes of a U.S. soldier, Afghanistan is a scary place.

He is in a gunfight right now. I'm gonna have to take a message.

If you guys don’t go through the enemy in six weeks, we’ll disown you. But then the hard work begins... We have lit a fuse, and we don’t know what’s at the other end- a nuke, a hand grenade, or a dud?

After all, it is not nice going to war with one’s equal or possible superior in strength – so different from those delightful “military operations” which consist in “potting”, savages with an amount of danger just sufficient to give a zest to the sport …But then the special line the skill of our ablest and most valiant generals takes is that of “thrashing a cannibal.” Thrashing a Cossack is a different sort of thing.

The last time I saw you Gooks was when you were shooting at me.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

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

Any day we create that much shrapnel is a good day.

War is the father and king of all.

Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.

Lately it has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca.

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.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.

War is the usual condition of Europe.

Any time we read a newspaper or take any look at the world around us, we are aware of the cruelty and violence that dominates our world.

Smell that? You smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

I voted to send people to war.

I begged her, 'Please don't leave me stranded in the middle of some primitive zarking forest with no medical help and a head injury. I could be in serious trouble and so could she.'" "What did she say?" "She hit me on the head with the rock again," Ford responded curtly. "I think i can confirm that was my daughter." "Sweet kid." "You have to get to know her," said Arthur. "She eases up, does she?" "No, but you get a better sense of when to duck.

As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!

You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them. Actually, it’s a lot of fun to fight. You know, it’s a hell of a hoot. It’s fun to shoot some people. I’ll be right up front with you — I like brawling.

War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.