The Darker Chase Quotes

“Jimmy Singer Grossmann wasn’t God, but he was the closest thing we had to an all-seeing, all-knowing protector, and if he was ready to turn in his rifle, the rest of us had some immense soul-searching to do before we stepped foot into harm’s way again without the faith that we were noble men doing noble work for a noble purpose greater than the sum of us all.”
― Cap Daniels, The Darker Chase

“of absence, but those men know that peace is fleeting and their rest only momentary, for their battle resumes and rages on with the undefeatable passage of time.”
― Cap Daniels, The Darker Chase

“were nothing. In fact, they were merely the absence of light. And just as those shadows appeared with every dawn, they vanished at midday, with the sun at its zenith, and when the absence of light no longer casts itself onto the endless earth and sea. For that fleeting moment, a man could believe the shadows were gone forever, but the eternal revolution of the globe would leave such a man doomed to realize the relentless shadows would return and haunt the eastern reaches that had previously known only the light of the morning sun. Such is the eternal rise and fall of evil forces faced by men of valor—men who wage war against all that humanity cannot face. Such men battle the willowy shadows until beating them back into their moment”
― Cap Daniels, The Darker Chase

“Like most days of my adult life, I watched the dawn gently consume the night and cast its long-reaching shadows across the sand and sea. The shadows, though visible and blatant,”
― Cap Daniels, The Darker Chase

“Singer said, “That’s the thing, Miss Penny. We never ask for thanks. We only ask that everyone who loves the life we defend never forgets that life comes at a price—a price people like us willingly pay on their behalf.” The solitary tear that had fallen from her eye suddenly was not alone, and my beautiful wife would be forever changed.”
― Cap Daniels, The Darker Chase

“For freedom to exist and remain, warriors—men and women capable of doing terrible things for the best of reasons—must be willing to step outside the walls of that freedom and security and do things most people can’t stomach. We’re those warriors, Penny. It’s not what we do. It’s what we are.”
― Cap Daniels, The Darker Chase

“Good. That smile from that teenage girl is the most genuine thing you’ve likely ever experienced. That little girl loves every ounce of your three hundred pounds, and she turns you—the strongest man I’ve ever met—into putty in her hands. She’s precious and honest and sincere in that affection for you. And you feel exactly the same toward her. She brings a joy to your life you’ve never known, and you give her a sense of family and even a loving father she’s never known.”
― Cap Daniels, The Darker Chase

“tears of those left behind that change the world one stone at a time, until the weightiest of all stones rests upon the grave of the noblest of men and women.”
― Cap Daniels, The Darker Chase

“Freedom, purely for freedom’s sake, is the noblest of all pursuits, and the heroes who taught me that eternal truth were sitting a dozen rows behind me, watching me parade around like a clown in a wasted, useless ceremony, bestowing a collection of letters after the name of a man who would likely one day fall to the blood-soaked earth beside one or more of them in defense and preservation of what we love and hold most dear. Ceremonies and titles have never, and will never, make the world safer, nor mankind freer, for it is the blood of noble patriots and the”
― Cap Daniels, The Darker Chase