Heavy is the Crown Quotes

“And, as I’d heard many times back in my Army days, a half-assed plan executed now is always better than an excellent one executed too late.”
― J.N. Chaney, Heavy is the Crown

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― J.N. Chaney, Heavy is the Crown

“You mean it. I can tell because you’ve got those same damned eyes as your father and your grandfather before him. The eyes that tell the truth. That mean it when you say that you want to do what’s right. I—don’t know what that feels like. But I’d like to find out. Try it on for size before I twist off into the great beyond.”
― J.N. Chaney, Heavy is the Crown

“Are you calling me old?” “She ain’t saying you’re a kid anymore, Boss. Wear those cargo shorts with pride, and we’ll stay off your lawn,” Perry put in.”
― J.N. Chaney, Heavy is the Crown

“That is because we realize that we begin to die the moment we are born. Every minute of life we experience thereafter is merely another minute during which we’ve staved off our inevitable end. Other races celebrate life. We Surtsi celebrate not dying.”
― J.N. Chaney, Heavy is the Crown