Dark at the Crossing Quotes

“They'd all be buried together, and Haris imagined the seeds in the girl's pocket growing shoots that would swaddle them beneath the earth, the barley sprouting upward, an unexpected crop reaching toward the sun.”
― Elliot Ackerman , Dark at the Crossing

“Damn Army's a screwup factory. They take guys who aren't screwed up, screw 'em up, then tell 'em they're too screwed up to be a part of the screwup factory.”
― Elliot Ackerman, Dark at the Crossing

“Educated, idealistic men began our revolution, but every time I looked into this boy soldier’s face and he spoke his chipped Arabic, with his cigarettes yellowing his teeth, I knew the uneducated would have the final say in my country’s future.”
― Elliot Ackerman, Dark at the Crossing