“The truth is found in whispers, in sidelong glances, in twitching jaws and clenching fists. What is the need for a lie when no one is listening?”
― Lady Macbeth
― Lady Macbeth
“My brothers in combat, white or black, need to believe that it isn’t the war that will kill them, but the evil eye. They need to believe it won’t be one of the thousands of bullets fired by the enemy from the other side that will randomly kill them. They don’t like randomness. Randomness is too absurd. They want someone to blame, they’d rather think that the enemy bullet that hits them was directed, guided by some cruel, malevolent, evil intent.”
― At Night All Blood is Black
― At Night All Blood is Black
“sometimes people and places serve a purpose for a finite amount of time to help you think and grow and love and then you move on.”
― How High We Go in the Dark
― How High We Go in the Dark
“Yes, I understood, God’s truth, that on the battlefield they wanted only fleeting madness. Madmen of rage, madmen of pain, furious madmen, but temporary ones. No continuous madmen. As soon as the fighting ends, we’re to file away our rage, our pain, and our fury. Pain is tolerated, we can bring our pain home on the condition that we keep it to ourselves.”
― At Night All Blood is Black
― At Night All Blood is Black
“Temporary madness, in war, is bravery’s sister.”
― At Night All Blood is Black
― At Night All Blood is Black
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