Contact Front Quotes

“didn’t want to hope. Hope was counting on shit I couldn’t control,”
― Rick Partlow, Contact Front

“The only easy day was yesterday, and the only good time was last time.”
― Rick Partlow, Contact Front

“Don’t fucking worry about that,” I’d assured him. “I may be shooting before I get out of the fucking dropship.” Everyone had laughed like they’d thought I was joking.”
― Rick Partlow, Contact Front

“Gonna take a while to fill all those empty slots.” A few weeks ago, I might have jumped or sprang to attention at First Sergeant Campbell’s voice, but instead, I just nodded to the woman. “It sure is, Top.” I looked at the gaping hole where Gunny Guerrero’s suit had been stored. “I don’t know how you’re going to do it.” “Same way they do in any war, son,” she said, her tone surprisingly casual, even friendly. I found it a little disconcerting, like I should be checking over my shoulder for an ambush. “We promote what’s left and let them train the next group of newbies.”
― Rick Partlow, Contact Front

“I know all those words you said must be related, somehow,” I told him, shaking my head, “but when you put them together like that, they just seem like one giant wall of static to me.”
― Rick Partlow, Contact Front

“And that was enough for them. Jets glowed white and red and the surviving enemy troopers were gone just as quickly as they’d arrived, leaving me standing in a cloud of smoke and holding my proverbial dick.”
― Rick Partlow, Contact Front

“And to coin a phrase, no battle plan survives contact with battalion staff.”
― Rick Partlow, Contact Front

“But I’d held out the barest scrap of hope in the irrational recesses of a child’s brain that still believes in Santa Claus.”
― Rick Partlow, Contact Front

“It grabbed at the air and rode its coattails rather than brute-forcing its way into the sky”
― Rick Partlow, Contact Front