Special Forces - Mercenaries Part II Quotes

“Let me live. Keep me alive. Both sentences so close in English, but very different meaning.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Special Forces - Mercenaries Part II

“I think it sometimes takes me a while, but I end up making good decisions at some point. Pretty much when I have exhausted all other options.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Special Forces - Mercenaries Part II

“Sometimes history is just an excuse for incompetence at getting along with each other.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Special Forces - Mercenaries Part II

“Vadim inhaled, but couldn’t form words, struggled with translating soldier concepts into something civilians could understand.

Dan moved into the breach. “Violence, Duncan. I’m afraid we didn’t meet under a full moon with roses and a bottle of wine. We were set on killing each other. Just … that it didn’t work out like that.”
― Marquesate, Special Forces - Mercenaries Part II

“You broke me up there in the mountains. You cracked something in my head, I don’t know. I have never been obsessed with another person before or after. You just drilled your way in and since then, I’ve been yours. You got to a place that I didn’t know existed ... and all that has changed me, taken the stuff away I thought was true about me. In some weird, weird way, started something that turned me into more than a goodlooking bastard.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Special Forces - Mercenaries Part II

“Take me on R&R, aye? Back to where we were before, or a similar place. Sea, sky, sun, and sex 24/7. Deal?'...'Make that 12/7 - getting old.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Special Forces - Mercenaries Part II

“Hey, comrade,” Dima said, tone, choice of words, everything exactly as it would have been in the eighties, in that forsaken country.
Vadim peered at him in the mirror. “Yes?”
“Are you guys in trouble?” Dima moved closer, stood within touching distance. “I don’t mean your little crusade a while back. I mean the rest.”
Vadim inhaled and lowered his gaze for a few moments. “Life isn’t easy, Dima. That’s our set of rules.”
“You know you can change them. If he’s fucking around….”
“So am I.”
“But you’re not happy with it?”
“It’s just sex, Dima.”
Dima looked at him for a long time. “It’s never just sex for you, though. Am I wrong?”
“No. You’re right.” Vadim shook his head. “Rules, Dima. We’re a different case.”
Dima reached out and took him by the shoulders, pulling him up and back against him, which made Vadim look at himself in the mirror.
“It’s not easy. I wish it was.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Special Forces - Mercenaries Part II

“…So, how did you figure out that you were attracted to each other?”
“Oh,” Dan laughed suddenly, a single dry sound, “that was easy. Vadim just shot me in the shoulder.”
Duncan’s expression turned almost comical.
“I think we give the saying ‘love hurts’ a completely new dimension,” said Vadim, laughing.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Special Forces - Mercenaries Part II

“And all I know is that I can't lose you. I need you. You keep me together. You keep me going."
"That's a big fucking lot of responsibility, istn't it?" Dan's dark eyes were vulnarable, "you need me, or you love me. Wich one is it? And is there room for understanding me as well?"
"It's both, Dan. Not either or".”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Special Forces - Mercenaries Part II

“And so he sat, waited in the silent night, occasionally checkin his watch to stay awake, and letting his mind wanter once more. Across the decades, across the countries and across the wars. His family, his friends, the sex he'd shared and the love he'd known. Lust and laughter, anger and jealousy, and a thousand other things, and he smiled in the end. If they got him this time, at least he had lived and he regretted nothing. (Dan)”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Special Forces - Mercenaries Part II

“Arousal is a fairly complex thing. Many people masturabate when they're bored, not because they're aroused." (Dima)”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Special Forces - Mercenaries Part II

“Vadim moved to touch his lips to Dan's, tilting his head with his hand, urging him to open up and pressed in harder, needed that feeling now, that want and need. The fact there was the desire that had been the basis of everything, much before any feelings or thoughts had become important, complicating it all.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Special Forces - Mercenaries Part II

“You’re better than the mountains, you know.” Murmured against Vadim’s lips.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Special Forces - Mercenaries Part II