Phillip Richards > Quotes

“I could see that Konny didn’t belong in the dropship infantry, but not because he was a bad person. He simply loved life too much.”
― Phillip Richards, Lancejack

“We never left you, mate.’ ‘No, mate.’ Wildgoose said. ‘We just can’t run as fast as you!”
― Phillip Richards, Eden

“Jackson laughed, ‘I bet you rag him for that all the time, don’t you?’ ‘He’s dead.’ ‘Oh. Sorry.”
― Phillip Richards, Lancejack

“the original dream of creating a utopia away from Earth was lost, like a beautiful painting drenched in blood. No man would ever walk the surface of Eden without a respirator on his face, I decided, or a rifle in his hands.”
― Phillip Richards, Eden

“What chance do those poor bastards have? It’s no wonder your major needs a bodyguard!  If I was one of those kids I’d shoot him and run!”
― Phillip Richards, Eden

“Since our straps prevented our bodies being thrown about the crew compartment, our vital organs just threw themselves about inside our rib cages instead.”
― Phillip Richards, C.R.O.W.

“We would allow civilians to be killed, just so that it didn’t look like we were trying to kill them ourselves. Like New Earth, Eden was a messed-up place.”
― Phillip Richards, Eden

“There was no missile that I could see, the only thing that lit up the dark were the sparks from ricocheting darts and the fires that burnt from within the city. It seemed such a stupid question, since any smart missile would have hit us before I could even open my mouth. ‘Where?’ ‘Launcher,’ Daniels corrected”
― Phillip Richards, C.R.O.W.

“Corporal Kamara laughed. ‘Well, I think I’d notice if they took it, I need my respirator to breathe!’ The operator regarded him sternly. ‘I don’t think they’ll much care if you’re breathing or not.”
― Phillip Richards, Eden

“Good shooting,’ Okonkwo remarked respectfully. I decided not to point out that the grenades were guided and that Geany was lucky he hadn’t died himself at such close range.”
― Phillip Richards, Lancejack

“I always checked my respirator first, because there wasn’t much use in me having a rifle that was loaded and comms that worked if I was choking to death.”
― Phillip Richards, C.R.O.W.

“The enemy of my enemy is my friend”
― Phillip Richards, Eden

“For the Union,’ we chorused quietly. ‘For peace,’ the New Earther whispered instead.  We ignored him, having convinced ourselves that he was mad;  there would never be peace on New Earth…”
― Phillip Richards, Lancejack

“Imagine the maddest rollercoaster on Earth and then get thousands of people to shoot at it, and that still wouldn’t even come halfway to a drop!”
― Phillip Richards, C.R.O.W.

“To do something like that a man must have had either nerves of steel - or a few screws loose.”
― Phillip Richards, C.R.O.W.

“he managed to throw his grenade. Instead of landing on the floor, the grenade fell back into the burrow, and someone below him screamed in horror.”
― Phillip Richards, Eden

“A child lay dead on the street, missing his respirator. His face was blue, and his swollen tongue lolled out of his mouth.”
― Phillip Richards, Eden

“The purpose of reserves was to re-enforce success, rather than protect from failure,”
― Phillip Richards, Lancejack

“The funny thing about heavy weapons is that everyone wanted to fire them, but nobody wanted to carry them.”
― Phillip Richards, C.R.O.W.

“Suppressive fire was about terror, about filling your foe with such fear that it compelled him to hide on the ground and weep for his mother.”
― Phillip Richards, Lancejack

“Check, check and check again, because you can’t check when you’re dead.”
― Phillip Richards, C.R.O.W.

“Just be glad you’re not melting, the engine works at over five hundred degrees, and its right above you.’ A loadee flicked his head upward as he checked our straps were secure. Nobody answered, but I knew we were all thinking the same thing … Cheers for that bit of useless information, mate!”
― Phillip Richards, C.R.O.W.