Mariah Decker

“Special Forces soldier, Anthony Herbert, the single most decorated combat veteran of Vietnam, published a bestselling book, Soldier, that detailed typical orders from his Phoenix superiors: “They wanted me to take charge of execution teams that wiped out entire families and tried to make it appear as though the Viet Cong had done it themselves. The rationale was that the Viet Cong would see that other Viet Cong had killed their own and… make allegiance with us. The good guys.”
― Tom O'Neill, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

“You see, a conflict always begins with an issue—a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn’t matter anymore, because now it’s about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“People don’t alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Mort

“Many do. Many blame all humans for the curse. But I’m capable of hating a circumstance while still pitying the people trapped within it. I know the curse was not your fault and you must see that too.”
― Elise Kova, A Duel with the Vampire Lord