Balance Quote by Janet Morris

“The look on his face became like the tiny snapshot of a beloved that soldiers take with them to the battlefield, not only to…

— André Aciman

“...could a face have been fashioned to fit the attitude of his consciousness where it lay suspended between life and death that face would…

— William Golding

If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out…

— John Stevens Cabot Abbott

“Wars fought over a face like this,” he murmured like he was talking to himself, my heart stopped beating and his thumbs moved lightly…

— Kristen Ashley

As always, there was an all-American war hero look to him, coded in his tousled brown hair, his summer-narrowed hazel eyes, the straight nose…

— Maggie Stiefvater

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“It was the face that disturbed me. The artist had lit it in such a way that it appeared very strong, actually, to my…

— Barbara Cohen

His face was sad and stern because of the doom that was laid on him, and yet hope dwelt ever in the depths of…

— Anonymous

We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a red bushy…

— Victor Hugo

As long as the colour of the skin is more important than the brightness of the eyes, there will be war. I have that…

— Vinicius Junior

“His face is not what I expected. He looks more god than mortal. Though the angular shape of his jaw is the image of…

— Emily R. King

“The face you wear in a battlefield should be a solemn one until the time when things are cleaned up and the real world…

— Terry Pratchett