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“For the first time in years, his heart raced, and the old excitement flickered inside him. The excitement of impending battle, clash of arms, danger and glory. Cei had almost forgotten it. To be al...”
“Those were great big angry men with sharp swords actually wanting to cut pieces off me. Its not until youve seen a red gaping wound and all the complex little bits inside a man all broken up and sl...”
“It's a new battle, no matter If I won or lost the last one, this is a new battle & the only thing to take forward is the lesson from the last one, if I won why & how I won, & if I lost why & how ...”
“There is no honour in battle, Dogalas. Men killing men.....no honour. Honour is doing a noble deed and living to tell about it." He glanced over at him. "Remember that.”
“Our lives are made up of many things, not just one. Many answers, not just one. It's men that want one answer for everything. They're always making laws, as though they could make one law that woul...”
“Young warriors are always eager for battle. Old warriors know better.”
“We took off for the tree line, leaving the wounded soldiers to wonder how they'd been beaten by four misfits and a horse.”
“Battle is a frightening thing, a terrible thing, but once you develop a taste for itnothing else comes close.”
“Every battle is won before it is fought.”
“A minor request," said Mazer. "Let's not refer to it as the training cage. 'Training' sounds laborious and regimented. Soldiers groan at the word. These men joined the IF to fight, sir. Let's call ...”
“Be prepared before you fight a battle”
“Be prepared before you fight a battle" -RH”
“Never speak of defeat before battle.”
“Screams and laughter simultaneously rent the air. Women were being physically harassed by the soldiers who had just killed their husbands, fathers and brothers. After the battle, men would win but ...”
“We probably lose the battles, but we win the wars!”
“The looters comes with the carrion crows after every battle.”
“Battle scars were not a commodity that I was accustomed to selling, least of all to myself.”
“Thirty paces, twenty, and you can see the eyes of the men who will try to kill you, and see the spear-blades, and the instinct is to stop, to straighten the shields. We cringe from battle, fear cla...”
“To talk about the senselessness of the battle was to attribute sense to war itself.”
“Freds vacuum-rated armor protected him from the smell of viscera, but it reported it to him as a slight increase in atmospheric methane levels. The stench of death reduced to a data point.”
