“Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.”

“Whoever has the sword will have the earth.”

“An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.”

“Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.”

“In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.”

“There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew it was a desk because it's always a desk. There's always someone at a desk, except...”

“There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.”

“Every war, no matter how brutal, is built on the premise that one day, when all is said and done, the ends will justify the means. But over and over again we learn that in real life, there is no en...”

“For so many families, here and abroad, the war is just beginning. The emotional and political fallout will crawl across generationsthe casualties can never be fully counted.Every war, no matter how...”

“Goodnight! Goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say goodnight 'til it be morrow.”

“Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.”

“Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival the departure.”