The Commander Quotes

“The Commander stood directly opposite her. He smiled with a feigned understanding, and his empty eyes gleamed with a phoney compassion – until his face turned to snarl and his fist slammed the stand.”
― Louis Saunders, The Retreat

“The crowd clapped and cheered with thunderous applause. Some of the adults had begun to wail, including Hattie. All that pain – the loss of her friends, their betrayals, and the life she’d been denied by that terrible pandemic – that excruciating pain pulsed through her veins and made its way out her lungs, screaming, screaming and screaming, hysterically, as she ceded control to that wonderful orator. Commander Tommy’s words were like a song, the way he composed them.”
― Louis Saunders, The Retreat