Chris Pourteau > Quotes

“After the Battle of Waterloo, Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington—who managed to defeat Napoleon by the skin of his teeth—surveyed the blood-soaked cornfields of Belgium and wrote in a letter, “Nothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won.”
― Chris Pourteau, Tales of B-Company: The Complete Collection

“Megan’s face took on the pouty look trademarked by Teenage Angst, Inc.”
― Chris Pourteau, Apocalypse Weird: The Serenity Strain

“Being isolated in space has a way of making you appreciate the least of humanity because at least it’s humanity.”
― Chris Pourteau, The SynCorp Saga: Books 4-6

“He found arrows cut by hand from tree limbs and tipped with flint points. A knife of quartz, jagged and hand-sized, was embedded in the earth. And there was blood. Whatever else had happened here, the Wild Ones—armed only with handmade weapons—had chased off a much more advanced Transport dropship armed with a state-of-the-art Gatling laser. The Amishman in him appreciated the irony. The soldier in him was impressed as hell.”
― Chris Pourteau, Tales of B-Company: The Complete Collection

“Having all those lives in her hands … for the first time, Halsey understood the phrase weight of command.”
― Chris Pourteau, Tarantula

“Mary endured—for the sake of a man she’d once loved; maybe still loved. For the sake of the little girl she once was. And for the legacy she could leave Anne—an indomitable resolve to never surrender, however unavoidable the future seemed.”
― Chris Pourteau, Tales of B-Company: The Complete Collection

“She was a big woman, muscle and fat mixed together as they often are in people who had once made their living with their backs but then reclined away everything hard work had built.”
― Chris Pourteau, Shadows Burned In

“She was turned away on her side, and he rested his hand on the warm curve of her right hip. He liked feeling her there, having the usually empty side of his bed filled with another breathing human being.”
― Chris Pourteau, The SynCorp Saga: Books 4-6

“Stug felt pieces of metal thump into the body he held up in front of him. He was starting to like this tactic of recycling dead porters for body shields.”
― Chris Pourteau, Tales of B-Company: The Complete Collection

“run the gamut from strong dislike to outright hate—when I thought she’d betrayed me—to a pretty goddamned high peg of respect at the end.”
― Chris Pourteau, Masada's Gate

“Her response was what she named B-Company’s shark strategy: keep moving or die.”
― Chris Pourteau, Tales of B-Company: The Complete Collection

“the reason he loved the dogs so fiercely was because he was never required to kill them. All the affection for animals he couldn’t afford to feel for the family’s livestock, he invested in their dogs.”
― Chris Pourteau, Tales of B-Company: The Complete Collection