25 Quotes by Miles Watson

Gene was six feet three inches of lean muscle and hard bone enclosing a brain that had only one object: the acquisition of power.

Fighting is a lot like making love. Timing is everything.

Love? What's that? Preferring someone to someone else? If that's love, then yes, she loved you. Of course, if that's love...then I love you. At least for tonight.

I don’t want to saw I flew into her arms. I wasn’t in condition for flying. Or running. Or even dignified limping. I simply fell. Fell towards the center of gravity in my own personal universe. And if our lips met on my way down, was that any fault of mine?

I thought fleetingly of Anne, how the faces changed but the act was always the same, the need was always the same, no one drew a line between the sex you bought and the love you made, and your body could not tell the difference.

Is certainty proof of being right?

The Jews are cowering along the wall, eyes wide, palms up, fingers splayed -- a collective posture of submission. Even now, with everything that has happened, with the city in ruins and the dead as thick upon the streets as busted glass, they don't want to believe we are actually going to kill them. We are Germans, after all; the most civilized people in Europe. And we are soldiers, not murderers. Except for today. Today we are both.

No one knew much about the Twenty-Eighth Infantry. It was not a glamour outfit. They knew about the Big Red One and the Screaming Eagles, about the Eighty-Second Airborne and Hell On Wheels, but not about Twenty-Eighth Infantry. The name was met with a certain silence, as if he was in a room full of Harvard graduates and told them his degree was by correspondence.

Just remember: when you lose, don't lose the lesson.