I thought if I loved you enough I could change you. I was so stupid.

No war is ever a war without the loss of a life of a solider

A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.

Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.

Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far better than everyone else. That was the only way he could win respect...

Remember. Observe, assess and act. No hesitation. No remorse.

This time we’ll be fighting for the nation. The company commander says that it’s better to be the ghost of a fallen soldier than a nationless slave. For the sake of our fellow countrymen, our...

Murph took his shot and dropped the bastard right out of the tree. then he stood. “I’m an American soldier, you son of a bitch.

I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.

‘There’s no time for right or wrong,’ I said.

During our time together in this place Holly didn’t outright avoid me or treat me rudely. But she wasn’t—how do women like to put it? She wasn’t emotionally available to me.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical capacity – or none at all – with which to analyze it and judge how to channel it.

A man is never so vulnerable in a battle as when he flees,” Lord Eddard has told Jon once. “A running man is like a wounded animal to a soldier. It gets his bloodlust up.

Captain I don’t want to be here,” was all he could choke out. Thomas reached over and gave Cricket’s shoulder a tight squeeze.

I felt a lunatic’s laugh welling up inside me.

It is not the dead rather the ones who lives through war have seen the dreadful end of the war, you might have been victorious, unwounded but deep within you, you carry the mark of...

Seeing you with that guy tonight made me nuts, because every bone in my body says you’re mine.

As I remember his laugh, there was nothing mad about it, it was more like the laugh of someone who has been the victim of a practical joke, a farce in which he had believed...

The men and women who continue to hold Lynn’s mind hostage against her will believe the future will be tilled with terrorism, death, destruction and a challenge to the survival of America. They believe Lynn...

Dude, don’t die out here.

Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.

If 12 of the finest soldiers were asked to follow bravely into battle, and near certain death, then I’d be very grateful to be the 13th best fighter.

Even in times of trauma, we try to maintain a sense of normality until we no longer can. That, my friends, is called surviving. Not healing. We never become whole again … we are survivors....

She smiled at him like a freshman invited to the senior prom. It made my blood boil.

It’s not about winning, it’s about doing what’s right. And yes, we will do what’s right.

Imagine a soldier who believes killing another human being is wrong, kills his first human being in war when he has never killed before. Worse still, imagine this same soldier has his enemy in his...

Most likely, they were writing the same type of macho bullshit that I wrote, trying to sound tough with their words in case words were all that made it home.

…It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to...

Don’t let people supervise your life, If you know who you are, you shouldn’t be living in that prison of dominance, live by your orders, you are your own soldier.

I like to think she hates my guts a little less every hour.

We choose and make our heroes from what we have read, heard and believed in.

It was her turn to hold him up.

War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance.

A little while ago, I stood by the grave of the old Napoleon—a magnificent tomb of gilt and gold, fit almost for a dead deity—and gazed upon the sarcophagus of rare and nameless marble, where...

I don’t know how these things died without benefit of a bullet to the brain pan. They seemed to exist in an eternal twilight of longing.

Damn the wars but bless the soldier.

Exactly. Well, except for the fact that at the time we didn’t know if we ever could deliberately send something or someone, but we were already sure it was a one-way trip.

A soldier is not always just a soldier.

She played me with a bad hand, and I fell for it every time.

‘Can’t you see what they are?’ I said. ‘They’re all dead.’

Tis action moves the world….[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if...

A hard soldier is a strong soldier is a living soldier.

A soldier wages war, and for what, minimum wage? I’d rather make love for free—or better still, get paid to have sex.

Fear the soldier who stammers, for he is very fast at pulling the triger.

I wanted to see the bullet coming, wanted to know the exact moment of my death.

Every solider believes in war till the time he actually fights it.

I like you better in a pair of worn jeans, and I think you deserve someone who appreciates what he’s got. Not someone out to have a good time.

Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love.

A murderer is a killer without a uniform.