Karl Marlantes Quotes

Mellas continued to look at the wallet, saying nothing. Hawke, who had been watching Mellas through ...

Mellas was transported outside himself, beyond himself. It was as if his mind watched eveything cool...

How could you get mad at someone who neither needed to attack nor was at all worried about being abl...

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up some failure on the part of the adults...

We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every hu...

When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just start...

'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we l...

Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply ...

Many will argue that there is nothing remotely spiritual in combat. Consider this. Mystical or relig...

Thinking you might be crazy can drive you crazy.

Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death.

The chanting went on, the musicians giving in to the rhythm of their own being, finding healing in t...

He ran as he'd never run before, with neither hope nor despair. He ran because the world was divided...