Ben Parish Quotes

“It isn’t about destroying our capability to fight so much as crushing our will to fight.”

“The war itself. How easy it was. How incredibly easy, even after all that we’d been through. Or maybe it was easy because of all we’d been through.”

“There’s a thousand ways this could go wrong and only one way for it to go right.”

“Don’t think a play ahead, or two or three. Think about this play, this step. Get it right one step at a time, and you’ll score.”

“When the moment comes to stop running from your past, to turn around and face the thing you thought you could not face… if you can’t get up and you can’t give up, here’s what you do: Crawl.”

“It occurs to me that there’s no real difference between us, the living and the dead; it’s just a matter of tense: past-dead and future-dead.”