Guns of the Dawn Quotes

“The secret of gunpowder is that anyone—a man, a woman, a child, a cripple—can kill with it.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Guns of the Dawn

“Once we have made ourselves into monsters, we shall never again be men.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Guns of the Dawn

“And so, you see, perhaps the coward is the bravest of all men, when he goes to war. He must conquer himself even before he goes to meet his enemy.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Guns of the Dawn

“I am picked apart.
Each day, some new part of me is pecked out. I am losing those things that make me human.
Take me away from this place before it devours me, piece by piece.
But, of course, you cannot come here, and I cannot leave.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Guns of the Dawn

“The past is no man’s clay for remodelling. It is fired the moment it is moulded, alas. I”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Guns of the Dawn

“She would carry her pistol with her, perhaps even Grant’s old musket, and she carried both of them loaded.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Guns of the Dawn

“She would write to him. She would write to her sisters, something true but, yes, shying from the whole truth, but she would write honestly to him. He would keep her heart for her, until the war was done and she had need of it again.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Guns of the Dawn

“If all that separates this terrible place from home is mere distance, then we are lost.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Guns of the Dawn

“The past is no man’s clay for remodelling. It is fired the moment it is moulded, alas.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Guns of the Dawn