Quote by Hilary Mantel

“My orders are to hold,’ said Damen. ‘We let the Regent commit first, to draw him out of position.’ ‘If we do that, and…

— C.S. Pacat

“getting their ashes hauled.”

— C.J. Box

“To his brother Edgar he confided, “I suffer from the usual difficulty that besets the higher commander—things can be ordered and started, but actual…

— Rick Atkinson

“The whole business of the human race, between London and Dover, being spoliation, Mr Dorrit was waylaid at Dartford, pillaged at Gravesend, rifled at…

— Charles Dickens

“Walk the midway and hear the carnival barker. Come see the freak named after his deceased father. Come see the prince who wants to…

— Sherman Alexie

“choke him. They filled him with their trial and”

— William Lashner

“The demands for vengeance, short of death, however, were so insistent that the wise counsels of Edward, the giver of victory, were swept aside.…

— Thomas B. Costain

“The authorities did not wish to confront those citizens with the sight of the dead. Finally bodies were dumped unidentified into mass graves. Like…

— Susan Griffin

I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or…

— Eddie Campbell

“We investigate, we prepare, we execute. We find them, we take them down, and then we piss on their ancestors’ graves.”

— Lee Child

“Mirabeau: “If you have been told to clear us from this hall, you must ask for orders to use force. We shall leave our…

— Hilary Mantel

“While at Colonel Niel's marquee I saw a detail of soldiers bring out a man by the name of Rowland, whom they were going…

— Sam R. Watkins