A False Mirror Quotes

“Courage is not measured by
Marching bands and banners in the wind.
If you have not walked
The bloody lines and seen the faces,
You have no right to describe it so.
We die here to keep you safe at home,
And what we suffer
Pray you may never know.”
― Charles Todd, A False Mirror

“Now he realized that somehow those who had served in France and elsewhere knew a world that couldn’t be shared. How could he tell his sister—or even his father, if the elder Rutledge was still alive—what had been done on bloody ground far from home? It would be criminal to fill their minds with scenes that no one should have to remember. No one.”
― Charles Todd, A False Mirror

“When you watch the living force go out of a man’s face as you fire your weapon into his unprotected body, it is very personal,”
― Charles Todd, A False Mirror

“No one ever stepped forward to protect me, Inspector. I wonder why I should feel any driving sense of duty to protect anyone else. Let me tell you something about love. It can be very cruel and very greedy. I’ve had done with it. And that has given me a freedom that I cherish.”
― Charles Todd, A False Mirror

“I have left a part of me wherever I have lain my head, including my youth. What remains will be satisfied to go home.”
― Charles Todd, A False Mirror