Tool of War Quotes

“Certainly I’m qualified to crash a dirigible.”
― Paolo Bacigalupi, Tool of War

“It is difficult to hold on to the idea of some new kind of honor, and to balance it against the honor that one believed in before.”
― Paolo Bacigalupi, Tool of War

“It brings great shame to turn against those ideals. Our kinship. Our honor. It is almost unbearable to think that your god and brethren despise you. To think that you shattered the bones of the weak and sucked out their marrow, believing that they deserved to die… and then to see that you yourself are one of those failures. And then to see that, perhaps, we did not eat our weakest, but destroyed our strongest.”
― Paolo Bacigalupi, Tool of War

“Sometimes dying’s okay,” he said. “Sometimes keeping something alive just means you’re making it hurt more.”
― Paolo Bacigalupi, Tool of War

“Maybe it will die on its own, a hopeful voice whispered, but the general suppressed the thought. Wishes were for victims.”
― Paolo Bacigalupi, Tool of War