484 quotes found
“Today is yesterday's victory, yesterday is tomorrow's conquest, and tomorrow is today's war. Though I face death, I am not fearsome.”
“•Engagement can be a commitment to love or a declaration of war. One must enter every battle without hesitation, willing to fully engage the enemy until death do you apart.”
“Gavriel’s son was bellowing Whitethorn’s name. A gods-damned victory cry. Over and over, the men taking up the call. Then Fenrys’s voice lifted. And Gavriel’s. And that red-haired queen. The Havill...”
“The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.”
“Like a falling star, he descended on the Tarbh Cró, a Cassiline berserker, his sword biting and slashing like a silver snake.”
“Change back to your ugly self before I change your face for you,” Logan said, Silver Frost.”
“a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.”
“A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight”
“When the Wolf King carries the hammer, thus are the final days known. When the fox marries the raven, and the trumpets of battle are blown.”
“Meantime the clang of the bows and the shouts of the combatants mixed fearfully with the sound of the trumpets, and drowned the groans of those who fell, and lay rolling defenceless beneath the fee...”
“Let the sun go down on you like King Harold at the battle of Hastings — fighting gloriously. Maybe a loser but what a loser! Greater in defeat than the conqueror. Certainly not a coward that rusted...”
“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 ...”
“Fred’s 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.”
“It took Caine a few beats to get it. “No. Go kill yourself. Eat your own gun. No. No no no.”“You’re happy here counting fish and nagging kids to work?” Edilio asked.“He’s not,” Virtue said, beating...”
“The more you say goodbye, the stupider you’ll feel when we’re blitzed as bats at the victory party.”
“Mellas was transported outside himself, beyond himself. It was as if his mind watched eveything coolly while his body raced wildly with passion and fear. He was frightened beyond any fear he had ev...”
“My grandfather used to say the placement of a birthmark was the story of how a person lost the battle in their past.”
“People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally.”
“The single greatest advantage anyone can take into any battle is hope.”
“If love is a battlefield and we all get scars....These were my reminders…my necessary thorns.”
