Word of Honor Quotes

“This place is so small you have to go outside to change your mind.”
― Nelson DeMille, Word of Honor

“the military constructs a unique subculture whose teachings supersede everything a man has learned in church or Sunday school, everything he has been taught by parents, teachers, and the community—indeed everything he knows in his own heart.”
― Nelson DeMille, Word Of Honour

“The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.”
― Nelson DeMille, Word of Honor

“people firing rifles with live ammunition at me. Do you know what I did? I laughed. It was too ludicrous.”
― Nelson DeMille, Word of Honor

“The shadows are lengthening for me. The twilight is here. My days of old have vanished tone and tint; they have gone glimmering through the dreams of things that were. Their memory is one of wondrous beauty, watered by tears, and coaxed and caressed by the smiles of yesterday. I listen vainly for the witching melody of faint bugles blowing reveille, of far drums beating the long roll. In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. But in the evening of my memory, always I come back to West Point. Always there echoes and re-echoes Duty—Honor—Country. Today marks my final roll call with you, but I want you to know that when I cross the river my last conscious thoughts will be of The Corps, and The Corps, and The Corps. I bid you farewell.”
― Nelson DeMille, Word of Honor

“Neither a fortress nor a virgin will hold out long after they begin to negotiate.”
― Nelson DeMille, Word of Honor

“of themselves. At least until the next glacier came through. Sloan looked up from his newspaper, apparently”
― Nelson DeMille, Word of Honor

“concurring.’ But now we know what I suspected. Two people on the board voted for acquittal, which means there are”
― Nelson DeMille, Word of Honor

“back up his story? He didn’t give Picard any other names. Only Farley.” Tyson shook his head. “Maybe Farley was the only one whose whereabouts he knew. Maybe they kept up their wartime acquaintance.” “A medical doctor and a strung-out paraplegic junkie? I doubt that. Were they good friends over there?” “Not that I recall.” Corva sat. “This is like pulling teeth. You are not going to tell me what motivates Brandt and Farley, though I think you know.” “Maybe later, Vince, if it gets down to that.” Corva snapped his briefcase shut. “Okay. So Friday it will be you and I and Colonel”
― Nelson DeMille, Word of Honor

“arms, and the other pulled the camera from”
― Nelson DeMille, Word of Honor