Hardtack Quotes

“Sometimes the smoke from the factories and riverboats and trains would obscure the night sky entirely. But the town's industrial breath was blowing somewhere else tonight, and so the Armstrong house was bathed in starlight. Nell studied the little white specks, like glittering dust on black velvet, and she asked,

"You boys ever wonder what it'd be like to be somewhere else?”
― Kelsey Brickl, Hardtack: A Civil War Story

“It wasn’t that Nell was weak. It was that the world was dangerous.”
― Kelsey Brickl, Hardtack: A Civil War Story

“She was an afterthought, little Martha. She was treated the way many families treated pet dogs - she had to be fed and cleaned every now and then, but she was left to her own devices for the most part.”
― Kelsey Brickl, Hardtack: A Civil War Story

“Pick a side? You done picked the wrong side.”
― Kelsey Brickl, Hardtack: A Civil War Story

“The war dragged on, as wars tend to do.”
― Kelsey Brickl, Hardtack: A Civil War Story

“The ground had opened up and spit out hell, Nell thought, and the detritus was Shiloh.”
― Kelsey Brickl, Hardtack: A Civil War Story