Wartime Quotes

People are so different in wartime. No one gets to be ordinary. Not really.

In wartime, everyone loves a soldier, and a wounded hero even more so.

Somebody's got to win this war, right?

We have our mission and we are going to complete it. So grab your straws and suck it the fuck up.

Fire supposed he needed to be there in order to give rousing speeches and lead the charge into the fray, or whatever is was commanders did in wartime. She resented his competence at something so tragic and senseless. She wished he, or somebody, would throw down his sword and say, 'Enough! This is a silly way to decide who's in charge!' And it seemed to her, as the beds in the healing room filled and emptied and filled, that these battles didn't leave much to be in charge of. The kingdom was already broken, and this war was tearing the broken pieces smaller.

Kristin Cashore

The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.

It's about more than us, now, can't you see? I love you, of course I do, but some things...some things just have to be done.

Natasha Farrant

In wartime, she thought to herself, you don’t call a death murder.

Tommy and I put on a radio play to entertain everyone while they unpacked their cookies. It was about a girl who saves up money for a prom dress, but at the last minute she says, "It's only clothes," and buys war bonds instead. The play was a big success, and my whole school pledged to buy war bonds, which should have made me happy. But it gave me a queer feeling; it's easy to write propaganda when everyone agrees with you. Do you understand? I think I'd rather bake cookies; it feels more honest. Your friend, LuluSammy looked down at me. "A girl after your own heart!" he said. "In my experience it is a rare female who can say, 'It's only clothes,' and when the war came, you discovered who you really were. Women changed. Children grew up overnight. I wonder what happened to this one.

In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.

There was, for many of us, a great escape in reading about the fantastic and supernatural during wartime. Terrors more terrible than those we were living through gave us an outlet for our anxiety.

M.J. Rose