Quotes by : Karl Marlantes

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

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

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

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

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

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

We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply not....

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

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

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