If you’re just now finding out that this world is unjust, well, you’re behind the times. - Lois McMaster Bujold

I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.

She’d have no objection to the principle of the thing, but she didn’t exactly approve of the military. She didn’t exactly disapprove, either; she just made it plain that she thought there were better things for intelligent human beings to do with their lives.

I suppose my determination to be a soldier stems from that date. I mean the real thing, not the parades and the uniforms and the glamour, but the logistics, the offensive advantage, the speed and surprise—the power. A better-prepared, stronger, tougher, faster, meaner son-of-a-bitch than any who came through that door.