True War Story Quotes

#1. In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a war story nothing is ever absolutely true.

Tim O'Brien

#2. We made it through the traps. Though dangerous, I'd go back through them all just to have her wrap her arms around me like that again.#Ren

Colleen Houck

#3. The rich countries are rich because of their practices at home, and because of their readiness to adopt and adapt new things, such as Chinese inventions or New World crops.

Ibn Warraq

#4. You can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty.

Tim O'Brien

#5. And in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe Oh.

Tim O'Brien

#6. Because you're lying to me. And you're lying to yourself. Jace's eyes were blazing.

Cassandra Clare

#7. A true war story is never moral.

Tim O'Brien

#8. The worst stories usually make you think: 'but nobody had to die'.
These are called true stories.

Moonshine Noire

#9. Things never come when they are expected.

Agatha Christie

#10. You know, we didn't want to kill anyone, but we knew that "Star Wars" is a generational tale. It always is. And for it to have some guts and some resonance and true stakes, I don't think that everyone could have come through the story unscathed.

J.J. Abrams

#11. Only in the shattering can the rebuilding occur.

Barbara Marciniak