Yet a sailor’s life is at best but a mixture of a little good with much evil, and a little pleasure with much pain. The beautiful is linked with the revolting, the sublime with the commonplace, and the solemn with the ludicrous.
“There are many trails in this life, but the one that matters most, few men are able to walk … even Comanche men. It is the trail of a true human being. I think you are on this trail. It is a good thing for me to see. It is good for my heart.”
― Dances with Wolves / The Holy Road
― Dances with Wolves / The Holy Road
“Often in war, you don’t know why you’ve not been fired upon. War’s like that. It’s long stretches of confusion and boredom, interspersed with insane, adrenalin-pumping bursts of action. It’s unpredictable, and there are no set rules. That’s just how it is.”
― Born Fearless: From SAS to Mercenary to Pirate Hunter
― Born Fearless: From SAS to Mercenary to Pirate Hunter
“The meaning isn’t important. What matters is the story hidden deep in the words. You’re at the point now where you’re trying to extract that story. Your soul is trying to bring back the things it lost in the disappearances.”
― The Memory Police
― The Memory Police
“The memory of that time has remained fresh, however, and it isn’t hard for me to write about it. I shall never forget the fragrance of summer, the rainstorms and the evenings glittering with stars.”
― The Wall
― The Wall
“I opened the card. It read: SO YOU CAN FIND YOUR WAY BACK TO ME. I opened the box. It was a lensatic compass. You said, “Read the back.” I turned it over. It was engraved. MY TRUE NORTH. You hung it around my neck and whispered, “Without you, I’d be lost.”
― The Mountain Between Us
― The Mountain Between Us
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