Quote by Ilona Andrews

“The fire was extinguished, and sniper fire had ceased. Nobody will budge, they were all dead. And the wind swept across jagged rocks, without…

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“The confrontation lasted about five minutes; then the display died out as quickly as it had begun, and everyone drank his fill of the…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“How the soldiers had lain, slain and forgotten, no marker for their demise, no songs to their name, not even mourners who knew them.…

— R.W. Schmidt

“Those who had been in on the night started telling about it with a kind of quiet pride and wonder, the way people tell…

— Ken Kesey

“It only remained," he said, "that the noble Chiefs assembled, laying aside every lesser consideration, should unite, heart and hand, in the common cause;…

— Walter Scott

“Quite a few soldiers . . . had ended up spending some time wrapped around each other, alone in the night. Most often, it…

— Robert Lee Wolfe

“First, the explosion of life. Then came the celebration. Such as it had been for generations and generations, as long as the eldest of…

— Colin Meloy

“Their fights didn’t so much end as dissipate, like a drop of ink in a bowl of water, with a residual taint that lingered.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“In the trenches between the burial mounds hundreds of dead soldiers sat side by side with their heads against the torn earth, as if…

— J G Ballard

“...the weather was atrocious. A frightful storm burst upon us. We camped literally in water...To cap our woe, there was no means to light…

— Leonce Patry

“Despite what legend might have us believe, death is not proud, it isn’t fanfare and trumpet blasts. It is quiet but unassailable, absent one…

— S.K. Falls

“We walked away from all that was warm and dear and stood frightened in cold rain where the guns fired, and in the end,…

— Charles Todd