Quotes About Guadalcanal

#1. Take your time.
Stay away from the easy going.
Never take the same way twice.
Gunny Arndt's rules for successful reconnaissance; Guadalcanal 1942

GYSGT Charles C. Arndt

#2. Before Guadalcanal the enemy advanced at his pleasure - after Guadalcanal he retreated at ours.

Halsey

#3. If they can fight and die on Okinawa, Guadalcanal (and) in the South Pacific, they can play ball in America.

Happy Chandler

#4. There it is. It is useless to ask ourselves why it is we who are here. We are here. There is only us between the airfield and the Japs. If we don't hold, we will loose Guadalcanal.

Merritt A. Edson

#5. Guadalcanal U.S. 1,600 killed, 4,200 wounded.

Peter Darman

#6. She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.

Kate Chopin

#7. Isn't it too late at night to begin something like this?"
"Not when one has a dire case of imagine-somnia.

Lisa Kleypas

#8. Being a part of the Mafia was like being in a chess game where you had no idea if you were the queen or a pawn, until it was too late, until you lost the entire game or until you won.

Rachel Van Dyken

#9. The Jedi thought of the cellular organelles as symbionts, but to Plagueis midi-chlorians were interlopers, running interference for the Force and standing in the way of a being's ability to contact the Force directly.

James Luceno

#10. In many ways, being pregnant and working were more difficult than motherhood.

Bethenny Frankel

#11. The end of a novel, like the end of children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plum

Anthony Trollope

#12. The door opened. She looked in the mirror and suppressed a curse. Slipping in behind some tourists, that winged shadow was back again. Karou rose and made for the bathroom, where she took the note that Kishmish had come to deliver.
Again it bore a single word. But this time the word was Please.

Laini Taylor

#13. When you want to do something creative and you want to do something new, you have to start with the thing that's making you want to jump up out of bed in the morning.

Elizabeth Gilbert