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“How could she compare the lives lost? One genocide against another—how did they balance on the scale of justice? And who was she, to imagine that she could make that comparison?”

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Book:The Poppy War

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“War’s never a winning thing, Charlie. You just lose all the time, and the one who loses last asks for terms. All I remember is a lot of losing and sadness and nothing good but the end of it. The end of it, Charles, that was a winning all to itself, having nothing to do with guns. But I don’t suppose that’s the kind of victory you boys mean for me to talk on.”

War

Book:Dandelion Wine

Source: Dandelion Wine

“That was the day the ancient songs of blood and war spilled from a hole in the sky And there was a long moment as we listened and fell silent in our grief and then one by one, we stood tall and came together and began to sing of life and love and all that is good and true And I will never forget that day when the ancient songs died because there was no one in the world to sing them.”

War Music Ancient Songs

Book:Traveling Light: Stories & Drawings for a Quiet Mind

Source: Traveling Light: Stories & Drawings for a Quiet Mind

“We were not born to fight, but our cradles were built from struggles and hardship. Pens, swords, sticks—weapons shoved into our fists as soon as we’re old enough to grasp them. So we fight because the world will cut our throats otherwise. We fight, because we won’t go down without one.”

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Book:We Free the Stars

Source: We Free the Stars

“You gotta admit, it's a messed-up world when going to war is safer than staying home.”

War

Book:The Fallen

Source: The Fallen

“. . . chasing after words like trying to grab the tails of comets.”

Writing Poetry

Book:The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

“It's about that applause I want to speak to you. I want you to remember that when you've done a little dance or a song or sketch, the applause which you get is not only because you yourself have done your best, but because each of those men is seeing in you someone he loves at home, and because of you is able to forget for a little while the unhappiness of not being in his home, and in some cases the great tragedy of not knowing what has happened to the children in his family.”

War Acting Stage Singing Theater Dancing Applause

Book:Theater Shoes

Source: Theater Shoes

“I saw Oberon charge into the fray on a huge black warhorse, glamour swirling around him, and sweep a hand toward the thickest of the fighting. Vines and roots erupted from the ground, coiling around the Iron fey, strangling them or pulling them beneath the earth. Atop a rise, Mab raised her arms, and a savage whirlwind swept across the field, freezing fey solid or impaling them with ice shards. The armies of Summer and Winter howled with renewed vigor and threw themselves at the enemy.”

War Oberon Mab

Book:The Iron Queen

Source: The Iron Queen

“Ruth, do what you must to keep our family out of harm’s way.”

War Action Powerful Fiction Military Drama Exciting Revenge Honour Fast Paced

Book:Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime

Source: Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime

“By the dawn of the seventeenth century, the order of Stormsongs had grown both darker and more powerful, while the Holy Roman Empire they allegedly still served found itself surrounded by powerful enemies – and on the brink of collapse.”

War Drama Catholic Literary Fiction Fiction Writing Complex Impactful Literary Novel Bohemian Protestants

Book:Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy

Source: Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy

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