Grenade Quotes

“Being brave doesn't mean not being scared. It means overcoming your fear to do what you have to do.”
― Alan Gratz, Grenade

“There were some horrors you couldn't fight and couldn't change. The real courage was just in enduring them.”
― Alan Gratz, Grenade

“Fear isn't a weakness. Anyone who's never been afraid is a fool.”
― Alan Gratz, Grenade

“Ichariba choodee,” she said in Okinawan. It meant, “Now that we’ve met, we’re family.”
― Alan Gratz, Grenade

“There were some horrors you couldn’t fight and couldn’t change. The real courage was just in enduring them.”
― Alan Gratz, Grenade

“A real coward would have run away and never looked back. Fear isn’t a weakness. Anybody who’s never been afraid is a fool.”
― Alan Gratz, Grenade

“Germany surrendered. Hitler committed suicide. The Nazis are through.”
― Alan Gratz, Grenade

“How you frame a photo says everything about the story you’re trying to tell.”
― Alan Gratz, Grenade

“This is it! Stay low, don’t bunch up, and run like hell!”
― Alan Gratz, Grenade

“Then, after you have killed as many Americans as you can,” Sano added, “you are to use the other grenade to kill yourself.”
― Alan Gratz, Grenade

“What story does the picture tell?" Lieutenant Tanaka had said to Hideki. "That's what I'm always asking myself. Not just what's happening in the photograph I take, but what happened before it was taken, and what will happen afterward. How you frame a photo says everything about the story you're trying to tell.”
― Alan Gratz, Grenade

“Sergeant Meredith was the one who’d taught him how to survive. Sergeant Meredith was the one who’d given him his nickname. Sergeant Meredith was the one who had listened when Ray had argued for the Okinawans. Sergeant Meredith was the one who had taught Ray how to grieve for the death of a soldier.”
― Alan Gratz, Grenade

“Alan”
― Alan Gratz, Grenade

“For”
― Alan Gratz, Grenade

“Heaven help me, Hideki thought. I’ve gotten used to it.”
― Alan Gratz, Grenade

“American devils, whose only purpose is to kill you and your families in the most brutal, merciless ways possible.”
― Alan Gratz, Grenade

“A wide streak of blood trailed from the entrance of the tomb to Hideki’s father, and Hideki’s heart lurched.”
― Alan Gratz, Grenade

“Almost four years ago, the Japanese had sneak-attacked Pearl Harbor, a US naval base in the Hawaiian Islands.”
― Alan Gratz, Grenade

“Hideki had always been the smallest boy in the school, and Yoshio had never let him forget it. Hideki was fourteen years old but looked like he was twelve, with a round boyish face, thin arms and legs, and short-cropped black hair.”
― Alan Gratz, Grenade

“It was all Ray could do not to pee his green pants.”
― Alan Gratz, Grenade

“The Yamato will be here soon, and it’ll smash those American ships!”
― Alan Gratz, Grenade