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“No one had ever told her how to get her heart to abandon a dream once the dreamer stops dreaming. - Grace Steele, Sisters In Arms”
― Kaia Alderson, Sisters in Arms

“On the day you were born”—Mother gave Eliza a fond look—“I vowed that I would do everything within my power to make sure that my daughter would not be trapped within the same gilded prison. Even if it meant butting heads with her father from time to time on what a ‘proper young lady of means’ should and should not be doing.”
― Kaia Alderson, Sisters in Arms

“(Eliza and Charity returning home on ship) "None of the crowds that they had seen in the papers overseas were there to greet them. A local officer pointed in the direction of a nearby bunker. “Go thataway for debriefing, ladies.” “That’s it?” Eliza grumbled. “No official greetings? No fanfare? No nothing? You’d have thought we were over there on a pleasure trip instead of serving our country.”
― Kaia Alderson, Sisters in Arms

“One last thing. The Army is full of people like that.” He jerked his head at the now pink-faced officer. “People like that don’t expect much out of people like us.”
He gestured his fingers back and forth in the space between their bodies. “They don’t think we have sense enough to excel at anything they hold dear, much less know how to tie our shoes. Don’t let any opportunity to prove them wrong pass you by.”
Grace nodded in understanding. “I won’t, Daddy.”
“Remember, half the fun is the look on their faces when we show them how wrong they are.”
― Kaia Alderson, Sisters in Arms

“They couldn’t afford anyone making the battalion look bad, which in turn would make every one of their sisters in the corps look bad. Any perceived “bad” behavior from the Six Triple Eight ultimately would reflect back onto every Negro woman back home—whether she was in uniform or not.”
― Kaia Alderson, Sisters in Arms

“German POW: "All those things they say we did, all the immorality . . . We were just following orders, you know.”
― Kaia Alderson, Sisters in Arms