Keeping Watch Quotes

“Thing was, a person needed a community that spoke the same language. People who had been there, whom he could trust not to get it wrong. People who could come to trust him, through shared ordeals.”
― Laurie R. King, Keeping Watch

“so self-absorbed it was easy to lie to him, so self-important it was a pleasure.”
― Laurie R. King, Keeping Watch

“For eleven months, Streak Rychenkow had survived all Charlie had to throw at him, only to fall to a bullet made in the USofA.”
― Laurie R. King, Keeping Watch

“Westmoreland claimed a victory on his way out the door, but when Walter Cronkite came to see for himself, he declared to the American people that the war was lost.”
― Laurie R. King, Keeping Watch

“a part of him did not want to acknowledge what he in fact was. A twenty-year-old cold-blooded killer.”
― Laurie R. King, Keeping Watch

“When battle couldn’t be joined against the enemy, sometimes the definition of enemy had to expand.”
― Laurie R. King, Keeping Watch

“In the bush, at night, Charlie was the predator.”
― Laurie R. King, Keeping Watch

“the main difference between old-timers and new guys was, they knew how to sleep in a fire zone.”
― Laurie R. King, Keeping Watch