Delia Falconer > Quotes

“Strange, how some things seem to have an extra weight because of what is put inside them: photograph albums, mourning lockets, pocketbooks.”
― Delia Falconer, The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers

“If you truly wish to understand the battle and my place in it, he writes now to the boy, you must understand the dreams and jokes and stories that we bore within us. You must see how, as we shared them, they formed a kind of landscape.”
― Delia Falconer, The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers

“But out on the plains we were, for the time those wars lasted, linked by our grim geography of fire beds and bullets, is a terrible third nation of our own.”
― Delia Falconer, The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers

“Death found me, not on the battlefield wher I was prepared to meet it as a gentleman, but buried my with paper and with words.”
― Delia Falconer, The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers

“God plays tiddlywinks, and we are the buttons.”
― Delia Falconer, The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers

“We are not what we have done but what people think they know about us.”
― Delia Falconer, The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers

“Custer's legend still growing even now, their corpses tied to his, their reputations measured by his actions.”
― Delia Falconer, The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers

“This is what you did before a battle, he said to Frabbie last night; you had to fold your life like a jacket you would return to, and leave it with De Rubio and his trumpet, on in among the bushes; important to move weightless and unburdened toward your horse, otherwise your life's tender weight would trip you up.”
― Delia Falconer, The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers