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Hopebreaker (The Great Iron War, #1) QUOTES

Hopebreaker (The Great Iron War, #1) QUOTES

1 " Terror had them all for a moment, and it ravaged them, and when it was finished, shock had its way with them, and left them cold and helpless. "

― Dean F. Wilson , Hopebreaker (The Great Iron War, #1)

2 " From this vantage point, Jacob noticed the distinctive emblem of the Resistance on a patch sewn onto the right shoulder of Rommond’s uniform. It showed a white equilateral triangle with two lines horizontally through it, all upon a royal blue field. What it meant was the subject of some discussion, but some thought it represented an uprising that pierced the ceiling of Hell and the floor of Heaven, as if to say they would resist not only the Devil, but God too. "

― Dean F. Wilson , Hopebreaker (The Great Iron War, #1)

3 " Rommond placed his gun upon the table like a writer places an exclamation point at the end of a sentence. There was a hint of finality about the gesture, like an announcement that this was the end of the debate. Taberah must've recognised it, for she didn't sustain her verbal assault. She turned and left, and if silence was her shield, it was also her weapon, leaving a sting behind in the quiet air. "

― Dean F. Wilson , Hopebreaker (The Great Iron War, #1)

4 " Solitude was the friend of the smuggler, and was undoubtedly on good terms with the scout as well. "

― Dean F. Wilson , Hopebreaker (The Great Iron War, #1)

5 " In Altadas, chance was a loaded die—and just as often a loaded gun. "

― Dean F. Wilson , Hopebreaker (The Great Iron War, #1)

6 " The Hope factory was menacing in the distance, for it was one of the few buildings that somehow managed to present itself through the smog. Its hulking form consumed almost all of the horizon, and its many pistons, pillars, chimneys and flumes ate into the heavens. For the parts of the sky it could not reach, those towers sent up endless streams of smoke, and this smoke devoured the natural clouds and left an unnatural haze in the heavens. The factory was a greedy mass of brick, a ravenous form of iron. As much as it gobbled up all the landscape, it threatened that it might eat the onlookers too. "

― Dean F. Wilson , Hopebreaker (The Great Iron War, #1)

7 " If the Regime had a factory producing Hope, the Resistance had a factory producing the tools of despair. "

― Dean F. Wilson , Hopebreaker (The Great Iron War, #1)

8 " Her words were like knives to his conscience, and as much as avarice dulled their blades, her tongue sharpened them. "

― Dean F. Wilson , Hopebreaker (The Great Iron War, #1)

9 " As much as he was thankful for the rescue, his pride kind of wished he wasn't. It'd taken twice the beating the Regime guards'd given him, and pride never took a beating well. "

― Dean F. Wilson , Hopebreaker (The Great Iron War, #1)

10 " The desert mocked the map-makers. "

― Dean F. Wilson , Hopebreaker (The Great Iron War, #1)

11 " They continued this deadly dance across the battlefield, played to the music of gunfire, which rattled them as much as it rattled the hulls of almost every landship in sight, and almost every one they couldn't turn quickly enough to see. Then the music took a bullet of its own, for Jacob no longer heard the song of Andil’s gun. "

― Dean F. Wilson , Hopebreaker (The Great Iron War, #1)

12 " Spotlights appeared by the dozen, like the bullets of heaven’s gun, and anyone caught running through one of them didn't run for long. "

― Dean F. Wilson , Hopebreaker (The Great Iron War, #1)

13 " Jacob couldn't really hear the sound of the other landships over the humming and cranking of his own. He heard the whistle of steam coming from the pipes and the latching of the iron tracks as they clicked into place. He heard gears adjusting, the rhythm of the pumps, the revving of the engine, and the fuming of the furnace. He also heard Andil’s heavy breathing, and he heard his own heart’s heavy beating. "

― Dean F. Wilson , Hopebreaker (The Great Iron War, #1)

14 " Further still, there were numerous machines on wheels and tracks and treads, pushed and powered by steam, creaking and heaving as they moved, dripping oil, the blood of industrial war. "

― Dean F. Wilson , Hopebreaker (The Great Iron War, #1)

15 " Behind the sternness of his voice there was a shackled anger, and beneath that shackled anger there was a buried pain. "

― Dean F. Wilson , Hopebreaker (The Great Iron War, #1)

16 " Moments passed like the lives of the dead. Who knew how many had died in that explosion? The Order wouldn't stay long enough to count. Names would be ticked off from a list later, and their passing wouldn't seem quite so bad on the page. Yet as people fell, the counters rose, and the anger rose in those who remained. "

― Dean F. Wilson , Hopebreaker (The Great Iron War, #1)

17 " It was hard to conceive of one so young roped into the war, but that was war for you. Jacob was just shy of twice his age and had avoided the rope so far. He thought that was a good thing. You see, the rope'd hang you. "

― Dean F. Wilson , Hopebreaker (The Great Iron War, #1)

18 " The glare filled the cockpit like a passenger, until every piece of metal, every crag and cog, was illuminated, until the very metal itself glared back, and might've blinded the eyes of the sun. "

― Dean F. Wilson , Hopebreaker (The Great Iron War, #1)

19 " Monster was such a subjective word. It was what they called the demons that made up the Regime. Perhaps it was what the demons called them. Yet they all looked alike, so perhaps neither of them were monsters—or perhaps both sides were. "

― Dean F. Wilson , Hopebreaker (The Great Iron War, #1)

20 " For now, the world of Altadas was mostly an empty desert, but in the future it might be a world of iron. "

― Dean F. Wilson , Hopebreaker (The Great Iron War, #1)