✴ — sworn soldier sentences .
a collection of quotes from t. kingfisher's sworn soldier series . i may change some quotes to make them more rp friendly . feel free to change pronouns as needed ♥
“Tomorrow, in my experience, is only worth worrying about when there’s something you can do about it.”
“Why must you keep sending me innocent monsters?”
“A poet once wrote that these woods are as deep and dark as God’s sorrow, and while I am usually skeptical of poets, I feel this one may have been onto something.”
“Something bad happened to both of us, too. We don’t deserve to fall apart either.”
“May we always have the choice to err on the side of mercy”
“May they shit pinecones in Hell.”
“There is nothing supernatural about it. Nature creates horrors enough all by itself.”
“I am skilled at preparing exactly two meals: handful of dry stuff pulled from saddlebags, and burnt thing on a stick.”
“Grief does strange things to people, and there isn’t always a logical explanation.”
“People think a war is an event, something neatly bounded on either end by dates. What anyone who’s lived through one can tell you is that it’s actually a place.”
“We don't always know what we should be afraid of.”
“Paying one's condolences sounds well and good in theory, but in practice you have to walk up to a stranger and effectively say, "Ah, yes, that person you loved so much? Remember how that died horribly? So sorry about that.”
“Look, if you don't make a fool of yourself over animals, at least in private, you aren't to be trusted.”
“The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do.”
“If we don’t pretend we’re laughing, we might have to admit just how broken we are.”
“Headache is always preferable to heartache, and if you’re focusing on not throwing up, you aren’t thinking about how the friends of your youth are dying around you.”
“If we run then we would have to admit there is something to run from.”
“The war had been hard on my feet and my knees and my faith in humanity.”
“You know how bad news grows in villages. Sneeze at noon and by sundown the gravedigger will be taking your measurements”
“They ask questions, but what they really want to know is what’s in your pants and, by extension, who’s in your bed.”
“there’s a price you pay for being good at some things.”
“The dead may walk, but I will not walk among them.”
“This place breeds nightmares.”
“I have killed so many people and seen so many die, and what if none of them are peaceful in the ground? What if they are roaming around? What if I will have to face them and explain?”
"Perhaps it is only in dreams that I am sinning.”
“We cannot habeas the corpus.”
“Ha, yes, of course the enemy has cannons, why wouldn’t they? Oh, and we’re out of bullets, you say? Ha!”
“I have, as I have told you, the psychic sensitivities of mud.”
“Sometimes when people hurt for a long time, they start to think that hurting is part of who they are. And then anything that helps the hurt, even healing, feels like it’s trying to strip part of them away.”
“Rules of life: Be true to your friends, don’t cheat at cards, don’t piss on the less fortunate, and don’t steal other people’s skeletons.”