Henry V. O'Neil > Quotes

“Some of the things that beat the shit out of you . . . can beat the bullshit out of you too.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Glory Main

“This is what I hate most about guys like you. You didn't even try.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Dire Steps

“It’s a lot cleaner when Command kills you on purpose . . . than when they do it by accident.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Glory Main

“Don't let 'em see they killed you!”
― Henry V. O'Neil, CHOP Line: The Sim War: Book Four

“A night in space can last a long time … or maybe it never ends.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Dire Steps

“How long you been in the infantry, sir? Anything under ten miles counts as 'almost there'.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Dire Steps

“No food, you die in weeks. No water, you die in days.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Glory Main

“I’m in the infantry. What you just showed me, for us that’s not even good pornography.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Live Echoes

“Follow the plan until it goes to shit, and then kill everything that isn’t human.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Live Echoes

“Because when you’re really scared to do something … do it right away.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Live Echoes

“Never diagnosed the enemy before.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Glory Main

“Sergeant Tin said it would be easier to just call you Corporal. She said you go back and forth, promoted one day and busted the next.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Live Echoes

“It’s important to have a buddy like that. Somebody who’ll stop you from doing that really stupid thing you were gonna do just because you couldn’t think of anything better. -- unidentified soldier, eulogizing his dead buddy”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Orphan Brigade

“You can pray and fight at the same time, Corporal. Especially if you learn how before things get rough. It’s important to have a philosophy of life . . . and of death.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Glory Main

“Because if I ever get nailed, I don’t want you running out to get the same medicine. Believe me, if it’s you lying out there, I’m gonna make sure you’re alive before I go after you.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Live Echoes

“Therm-bombs! Drop ’em right on us! I been roasted before—it’s nothing!”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Live Echoes

“He relaxed into the dirt, it was all right, he was infantry and the dirt was home. He felt warm liquid all over his left thigh and wondered if he’d peed himself, it didn’t matter, none of it mattered, the stars were out in the blackness overhead and that was where he was going.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, CHOP Line: The Sim War: Book Four

“Nobody ever kills everybody anywhere, big man. Somebody always gets away.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Glory Main

“Food’s the killer. The clock starts as soon as the troops are on the ground. You wouldn’t believe how fast they consume what they’re carrying, and then … if I don’t get them more, if I don’t find them more … they die.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Orphan Brigade

“But that’s part of being in charge, Jan. Maybe the most important part. You can’t let your people get fucked over. Not if you expect them to follow you.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Orphan Brigade

“That’s it. Keep that edge. Fight like there’s no tomorrow.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Dire Steps

“Lieutenant Mortas is the black sheep of the family--I thought you knew that.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Dire Steps

“With all the god-awful suffering in this war, I suppose somebody ought to be enjoying it.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, CHOP Line: The Sim War: Book Four

“You help us, they’ll lock you up for the rest of your life.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Live Echoes

“Remember what they did to Broadleaf, and remember what they did to us. Now it’s time for us to kill ’em back.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Dire Steps

“Good units walk a thin line between indiscipline and ineffectiveness. Ignore the rules too often and you’ve got a mob, but enforce the rules too strictly and you’ve got a herd.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Orphan Brigade

“This is a Spartacan fighting knife. Heard of the Spartacan Scouts? Rough boys. This knife belonged to one of them. He died saving my life.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, CHOP Line: The Sim War: Book Four

“Because Banshees don’t think much of medals!”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Dire Steps

“I swear, lying there thinking about what they might decide to do next was worse than anything they did later.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Glory Main

“Well tonight we’re passing an amendment. I call it Jander’s Law.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Live Echoes