The Fateful Lightning Quotes

“Men with power either trumpet to everyone just how powerful they are, or they use that power effectively by keeping quiet about it, and going about their duties.”
― Jeff Shaara, The Fateful Lightning: A Novel of the Civil War

“I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting—its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands and fathers….Tis only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded or lacerated…that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.”
― Jeff Shaara, The Fateful Lightning

“Tis only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded or lacerated…that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.”
― Jeff Shaara, The Fateful Lightning: A Novel of the Civil War

“care about right now is how long this is”
― Jeff Shaara, The Fateful Lightning: A Novel of the Civil War

“Men with power either trumpet to everyone just how powerful they are, or they use that power effectively by keeping quiet about it, and going about their duties. I regret he is the former. This state will not”
― Jeff Shaara, The Fateful Lightning: A Novel of the Civil War