Quote by David Christopher Perez

“You're allowed to miss the people who were bullets to you, but you're not allowed to let them shoot you again.”

— Reyna Biddy

“I do not shoot at my military enemy from hatred or revenge; I fight against him because the paramount interests of my country cannot…

— Henry Wager Halleck

“I'm sorry about shooting you.”

— Lili St. Crow

“I’ve never shot a civilian except when under orders.”

— William T. Vollmann

“Once we fired the first shot, all of our choices disappeared. We were just reacting and retreating. And dying.”

— Bobby Adair

“Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people…

— Jodi Picoult

“Our guns are good, our bullets are hard, and most of all, we've got a righteous kind of wrath to spare.”

— Bec McMaster

“Maybe that’s what we do to the people we love: we take shots in the dark and realize too late we’ve wounded the people…

— Jodi Picoult

“You know the gentlemanly thing to do would have been to say I didn’t have to apologize for getting shot. It wasn’t my fault.”

— Heather Long

“And as he recalls the old soldier's wisdom regarding bullets and fate, how pointless evasion is when each shot has a man's name on…

— Emma Richler

“Don’t aim a gun if you have no intention of pulling the trigger.  And if you do pull the trigger, shoot to kill.”

— F. Paul Wilson

“Life is a bleak place. Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.”

— Tahereh Mafi