Sunrise Over Fallujah Quotes

“It's hard to be brave when you can stumble across a world of hurt around any corner.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Sunrise Over Fallujah

“I asked myself what did Adam know of paradise?" said the sheik, who told us to call him Hamid. "He woke up one day and found himself in the Holy Garden and he had never known anything else. That's what I think has happened to America. You are a young people. What have you known but the paradise of peace and security and wealth?”
― Walter Dean Myers, Sunrise Over Fallujah

“How do you keep your guys safe?" Coles asked. "By killing everything that ain't smiling, and half of everything that is," the marine captain answered.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Sunrise Over Fallujah

“...Folks, there's not much on this table to eat," he said. "When you give it to one person, you have a chance to make a friend. When you divide it between two people, you're liable to make two enemies...”
― Walter Dean Myers, Sunrise Over Fallujah