The Bullet Garden Quotes

“He whom the gods destroy first they make proud.”
― Stephen Hunter, The Bullet Garden

“I suppose one owes God a death, eh? He takes it when he wants it, nothing a chap can do. So do remember me around the campfires and do now and again take a taste of something stronger than water to conjure me, if only for the second, out of the night into which I have passed. That’s all one can ask.”
― Stephen Hunter, The Bullet Garden

“The art of the pitch was to keep it clear, quick, with a good sense of suspense toward a climax, leading to a single conclusion. It had to be a story, in other words.”
― Stephen Hunter, The Bullet Garden

“The French word—actually it’s a Norman word,” said Colonel Bruce, “is bocage. Ancient by any standard. Won’t trouble you with etymology. Basically it describes a terrain featuring a checkerboard of pasture, woodland, brush, hill, hedgerow, farmer’s fields plowed or unplowed, lots of cows and bumblebees,”
― Stephen Hunter, The Bullet Garden

“possibly a wretched believer in our superheated Aryan master race pornography. Or someone with a weakness for Nietzsche.”
― Stephen Hunter, The Bullet Garden

“overexaggerated”
― Stephen Hunter, The Bullet Garden