Guyatri Kerr > Guyatri Kerr's Quotes

“Join the Army, see the world. Meet new and exciting people, and kill them.”
― Vaughn Heppner, Assault Troopers

“They had powered armor and heavy caliber rifles. We had bio-suits and pure hearts, oh yeah.”
― Vaughn Heppner, Assault Troopers

“they were strong and they had good tech. What they lacked was imagination.”
― Vaughn Heppner, Assault Troopers

“A key to success in battle was to make a decision—good or bad—and to stick with it. Being wishy-washy during a fight led to death or defeat or possibly both.”
― Vaughn Heppner, Assault Troopers

“Were the Cherokees right, though? Did a man own a conscience, and every time he went against it, did he wear it down a little bit more?”
― Vaughn Heppner, Planet Strike

“you can’t control how others react toward you, but you can always control how you react to them.”
― Cesar Gonzalez, Element Wielder

“My loyalty is to my friends, not to gold.”
― Cesar Gonzalez, Legacy of Chaos

“Wars were not won because you fought every battle, wars were won by winning those that you could win. ”
― Brad Clark, Knight Fall

“I always checked my respirator first, because there wasn’t much use in me having a rifle that was loaded and comms that worked if I was choking to death.”
― Phillip Richards, C.R.O.W.

“The funny thing about heavy weapons is that everyone wanted to fire them, but nobody wanted to carry them.”
― Phillip Richards, C.R.O.W.

“Since our straps prevented our bodies being thrown about the crew compartment, our vital organs just threw themselves about inside our rib cages instead.”
― Phillip Richards, C.R.O.W.

“Imagine the maddest rollercoaster on Earth and then get thousands of people to shoot at it, and that still wouldn’t even come halfway to a drop!”
― Phillip Richards, C.R.O.W.

“To do something like that a man must have had either nerves of steel - or a few screws loose.”
― Phillip Richards, C.R.O.W.

“Jackson laughed, ‘I bet you rag him for that all the time, don’t you?’ ‘He’s dead.’ ‘Oh. Sorry.”
― Phillip Richards, Lancejack

“Good shooting,’ Okonkwo remarked respectfully. I decided not to point out that the grenades were guided and that Geany was lucky he hadn’t died himself at such close range.”
― Phillip Richards, Lancejack

“The purpose of reserves was to re-enforce success, rather than protect from failure,”
― Phillip Richards, Lancejack

“For the Union,’ we chorused quietly. ‘For peace,’ the New Earther whispered instead.  We ignored him, having convinced ourselves that he was mad;  there would never be peace on New Earth…”
― Phillip Richards, Lancejack

“I could see that Konny didn’t belong in the dropship infantry, but not because he was a bad person. He simply loved life too much.”
― Phillip Richards, Lancejack

“Suppressive fire was about terror, about filling your foe with such fear that it compelled him to hide on the ground and weep for his mother.”
― Phillip Richards, Lancejack

“We would allow civilians to be killed, just so that it didn’t look like we were trying to kill them ourselves. Like New Earth, Eden was a messed-up place.”
― Phillip Richards, Eden

“Corporal Kamara laughed. ‘Well, I think I’d notice if they took it, I need my respirator to breathe!’ The operator regarded him sternly. ‘I don’t think they’ll much care if you’re breathing or not.”
― Phillip Richards, Eden

“The enemy of my enemy is my friend”
― Phillip Richards, Eden

“the original dream of creating a utopia away from Earth was lost, like a beautiful painting drenched in blood. No man would ever walk the surface of Eden without a respirator on his face, I decided, or a rifle in his hands.”
― Phillip Richards, Eden

“What chance do those poor bastards have? It’s no wonder your major needs a bodyguard!  If I was one of those kids I’d shoot him and run!”
― Phillip Richards, Eden

“he managed to throw his grenade. Instead of landing on the floor, the grenade fell back into the burrow, and someone below him screamed in horror.”
― Phillip Richards, Eden

“A child lay dead on the street, missing his respirator. His face was blue, and his swollen tongue lolled out of his mouth.”
― Phillip Richards, Eden

“We never left you, mate.’ ‘No, mate.’ Wildgoose said. ‘We just can’t run as fast as you!”
― Phillip Richards, Eden

“My fucking grandmother!  Vegas!” one of the sailors said. Ryck didn’t quite understand the reference of that, but he understood the tone of the sailor’s comment.”
― Jonathan P. Brazee, Recruit

“everyone might stay together for drinking and mess games, but the common understanding was that it was a little difficult for a private to let loose and have fun when there was a colonel standing there at his shoulder. ”
― Jonathan P. Brazee, Recruit

“Always fighting the last war, however, was a good way to lose the next one.”
― Jonathan P. Brazee, Sergeant