#comb

The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I think the word he's trying to say is 'please'. Pity, not vengeance sends my arrow flying into his skull. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#hunger-games #pity #vengeance #enemy

Combat is fast, unfair, cruel, and dirty. It is meant to be that way so that the terrible experience is branded into the memory of those who are fortunate enough to survive. It is up to those survivors to ensure that the experience is recorded and passed along to those who just might want to try it. ↗

— Bruce H. Norton

#foce-recon #marines #military-history #vietnam #vietnam-war

...the experience of battle forever divides those who talk of nothing else but its prospect from those who talk of everything else but its memory. ↗

— James D. Hornfischer

#combat #war #wwii-history #experience

He kissed me for a long moment, holding my shoulders, perhaps to keep me from pressing my whole body against his. Then he tried to lift my bag. "My God," he said. "What happened?" "I found out one may check out twenty books at a time from the school library. ↗

— Laura Whitcomb

#humor #kiss #laura-whitcomb #library #reading

I want to do something spontaneous, like combust. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #spontaneity #funny

V had a passing thought that she used the word "anyway" like an eraser on a crowded chalkboard. She said it whenever she needed to clear off the things she'd just shared to make room for more. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#paranormal #paranormal-romance #romance #vampire #vishous

Spontaneous human combustion is for superstitious atheists. I believe in deliberate human combustion. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #funny

I find it rude to laugh at a man with a sword. ↗

— Derek Landy

#combat #duel #dueling #humor #humorous

It is the man on the ground with his rifle who ultimately wins the war. ↗

— Bruce H. Norton

#war #death

The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the shared commitment to safeguard one another’s lives is unnegotiable and only deepens with time. The willingness to die for another person is a form of love that even religions fail to inspire, and the experience of it changes a person profoundly. ↗

— Sebastian Junger

#combat #psychology #change