Elliot Ackerman > Elliot's Quotes

“They'd all be buried together, and Haris imagined the seeds in the girl's pocket growing shoots that would swaddle them beneath the earth, the barley sprouting upward, an unexpected crop reaching toward the sun.”
― Elliot Ackerman , Dark at the Crossing

“Like the bottom of a lake, the trees trapped a cold reminder that the sun struggles to touch all parts of the earth equally.”
― Elliot Ackerman, Green on Blue

“ear about how I’d killed Gazan, and in that moment, when he knew what”
― Elliot Ackerman, Green on Blue

“The militants fought to protect us from the Americans and the Americans fought to protect us from the militants, and being so protected, life was very dangerous.”
― Elliot Ackerman, Green on Blue

“Politics,” he says, “can be defined as the acquisition or maintenance of power. You can do this in two ways: by either dividing people or uniting them. Uniting people is very difficult,” he explains, “but dividing them is far easier.”
― Elliot Ackerman, Istanbul Letters

“Damn Army's a screwup factory. They take guys who aren't screwed up, screw 'em up, then tell 'em they're too screwed up to be a part of the screwup factory.”
― Elliot Ackerman, Dark at the Crossing

“The militants fought to protect us from the Americans, and the Americans fought to protect us from the militants, and being so protected, life was very dangerous.”
― Elliot Ackerman, Green on Blue