Danger Close Quotes

“Before that, we got an opening act, and like most opening acts, it’s bound to be smaller, shorter and probably disappointing.”
― Rick Partlow, Danger Close

“try not to look threatening.” “I’m in a big, black, metal suit bristling with weapons, sir,” Delp reminded me. “I don’t know how to look anything but threatening.” Good point. “Just keep your plasma gun pointed down, okay?”
― Rick Partlow, Danger Close

“I need you alive, and because I need you to do something that isn’t your duty to do, I’ll offer you your life in exchange. My people don’t kill prisoners of war.” That was a lie, but we generally didn’t kill them once we’d taken them on board our troop ships, so it was mostly true,”
― Rick Partlow, Danger Close

“So that’s why God made 2nd lieutenants, to block that shit before it can hit the NCOs.”
― Rick Partlow, Danger Close

“Nothing is ever fool-proof because fools are so damned ingenious.”
― Rick Partlow, Danger Close

“Son,” he said, squeezing my shoulder, wistful sadness in those usually steel-hard grey eyes, “there’s always another war.”
― Rick Partlow, Danger Close

“You’re more alone than you ever have been, with no real authority but shitloads of responsibility. You’re a human shit-catching machine,”
― Rick Partlow, Danger Close