H.W. "Buzz" Bernard > Quotes

“I understand, lieutenant. I share your feelings, your anger.” Jim read in Jürgen’s eyes that he truly did. Against his better judgment, Jim drew a deep breath, then continued. “What I wanted to say is that I believe we’re going to uncover a plot so devastating it would put a Greek tragedy to shame. I think we’re on the verge of unearthing a genocidal scheme that will cast a shadow over German society for generations. I’m sorry, I don’t mean to throw spears at you, sir.” “But maybe I deserve them. Perhaps all of us who never swore allegiance to the Party deserve them for not standing up to the man we let commandeer our nation.” “The trouble is, you realize such things only in hindsight, never as they’re happening, never as you’re going down the road.” “Maybe,” Jürgen said, his words almost a whisper, “the road was just too dark.” “It had to have been,” Jim said softly, though he couldn’t really imagine, couldn’t really envision, living in a police state where the ideology of a despot was the only credo acceptable, and dissenting beliefs and actions were deemed punishable by imprisonment . . . or worse.”
― H.W. "Buzz" Bernard, Down a Dark Road

“An enemy never remains an enemy, but a man’s integrity is eternal.”
― H.W. "Buzz" Bernard, When Heroes Flew

“hours”
― H.W. "Buzz" Bernard, The Shangri-La Raiders

“How do you measure the worth of a human life? Is yours worth more than someone else's. Is mine?”
― H.W. "Buzz" Bernard, Cascadia

“Far to the south, behind them, lightning painted the horizon in broad, explosive sheets of electric whiteness.”
― H.W. "Buzz" Bernard, Supercell

“Egon nodded. He knew”
― H.W. "Buzz" Bernard, When Heroes Flew

“War, after all, was the result of the idiocy of men, not the creation of God. Al”
― H.W. "Buzz" Bernard, When Heroes Flew

“The landscape had morphed into a post-apocalyptic movie set, an urban dump that likely extended for hundreds of miles north and south, a countryside with a salty sheen devoid of life and hope.”
― H.W. "Buzz" Bernard, Cascadia

“Sometimes you don’t have to see it, but only know the character of the men leading you there.”
― H.W. "Buzz" Bernard, When Heroes Flew

“People find it hard to believe their homes, their businesses, even their lives are in acute danger and can be snatched away just like that.”
― H.W. "Buzz" Bernard, Cascadia

“There are events that occur in our lives we absolutely can't explain, that don't make sense, at least to us. But that doesn't mean they didn't happen or that we made them up, or that we're tripping off into Far-Fetched Land.”
― H.W. "Buzz" Bernard, Cascadia

“Well, she’s either Jackie or . . . hey, how about Stormy? Like some North Hollywood stripper?”
― H.W. "Buzz" Bernard, Supercell

“What took place here is not just an interesting geological study of something that happened in the past. It's a canary in a coal mine.”
― H.W. "Buzz" Bernard, Cascadia

“25”
― H.W. "Buzz" Bernard, The Shangri-La Raiders