“He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minuscule absence, a barely detective gap in the so-called grand scheme, one unit fewer now. Or not e...”

“You will remember this when all else fades, this moment, here, together, by this well. There will be certain days, and certain nights, youll feel my presence near you, hear my voice. Youll think yo...”

“Of the things we fashioned for them that they might be comforted, dawn is the one that works.”

“The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.”

“Soldiers manage by dividing themselves. They're one man in the killing, another at home, and the man that dandles his bairn on his knee has nothing to do wi' the man who crushed his enemy's throat ...”

“The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival”