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.