Carver Greene > Quotes

“Chase located North in the break room. Instead of a flight suit or cammies, he was dressed in a white T-shirt and his dress blue trousers with the blood stripe running along the outer legs. Blood stripes represented the bloodshed of Marines during the Mexican-American battle at Chapultepec in 1847.”
― Carver Greene, An Unlawful Order

“Surprising how many people assumed that when a helicopter failed it simply rotored on down. Truth was, it fell with the aerodynamics of a grand piano.”
― Carver Greene, An Unlawful Order

“There’s an old Marine saying that there’s no worse duty station than the one where you currently are and no better duty station than the one you just left.”
― Carver Greene, An Unlawful Order

“Family comes first, Anderson.” The tone was warm, fatherly. “Don’t ever forget that.”
― Carver Greene, An Unlawful Order

“His hands slowly folded into fists, taking on the shape of knobby lumps of coal. His body stiffened, and every pore seemed to ooze with indignation. However, to his credit, he answered with a remarkably restrained, “How so?”
― Carver Greene, An Unlawful Order

“He offered a toast, “The Arabs have a saying, ‘The sands are blowing.’” He softly clinked his glass with hers. “Here’s to the winds of change.”
― Carver Greene, An Unlawful Order

“When a cloud slid across the moon, the ocean vanished into an inky, blank space—a void waiting to be refilled, an empty womb.”
― Carver Greene, An Unlawful Order