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“He could live in this shifting place of betrayals within betrayals, of no loyalties honored, of the strong crushing the weak, no more. He…

— Kathleen Koen

“For this one night, I saw with my own eyes the balance, the madness, the respect, the damage, the love, the intensity, and the…

— Rachel Stephens Showman, Those Ducks Look Aggressive

“I shut my eyes and turned them on my heart, As a man calls for wine before he fights, I asked one draught of…

— Robert Browning

“Being the dutiful soldier he was, he didn’t waste energy on trivial matters. If something needed to be done, he did it. If something…

— Mia Dymond

“I'm hurting you to make you a better soldier in every way. To sharpen your wit. To intensify your effort. To keep you off…

— Orson Scott Card

“I sent out words like soldiers to battle and they never returned.”

— John Mortimer

“It hurts, but I can bear it. Because I am a doll, and a servant. Because I am a pretty thing and a soldier…

— Leigh Bardugo

“I scoffed at such old fashioned notions as duty, patriotism, the military virtues. And here I was, aged fifty, standing on guard at the…

— David Malouf

“It was, I think in retrospect, the most dramatic individual personal act I have ever seen a soldier take. The mighty powers may try…

— Robert Fisk

“We meet as mortal enemies hereafter - let us, like gallant gentlemen, exchange polite attentions in the meantime.”

— Wilkie Collins

“Your fellow soldiers had to know that you had their back. That was rule one, lesson one, and above all else.”

— Harlan Coben

“You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the…

— Charles Mackay