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Ambush (Sydney Rose Parnell, #3) QUOTES

Ambush (Sydney Rose Parnell, #3) QUOTES

1 " Before the bomb hits, there comes a shriek that splits your soul. "

― Barbara Nickless , Ambush (Sydney Rose Parnell, #3)

2 " I've killed people. I've tortured people. Sometimes under orders. Sometimes to stay alive. I need to be clear on this, Sydney. So you know who I am. "

― Barbara Nickless , Ambush (Sydney Rose Parnell, #3)

3 " Wisdom is earned trench by trench, street by street, from one battle line to the next. "

― Barbara Nickless , Ambush (Sydney Rose Parnell, #3)

4 " I never wanted to claim him. I just wanted to give him a life. "

― Barbara Nickless , Ambush (Sydney Rose Parnell, #3)

5 " But if there's anything I've learned, it's that life will explode one land mine after another, even when all you're trying to do is walk from the couch to the refrigerator. "

― Barbara Nickless , Ambush (Sydney Rose Parnell, #3)

6 " When the dog has a chance to bite, he will. "

― Barbara Nickless , Ambush (Sydney Rose Parnell, #3)

7 " What fools we mortals are to think that the plans we make are anything more than a soap bubble blown against a hurricane, a frail and fleeting wish destined to burst. "

― Barbara Nickless , Ambush (Sydney Rose Parnell, #3)

8 " We always say live for today and don't waste time worrying about tomorrow. But what keeps us up at night is knowing that tomorrow is roaring down on us like a tsunami, and a lot of us don't know how to swim. "

― Barbara Nickless , Ambush (Sydney Rose Parnell, #3)

9 " Sooner or later, we all come to the ultimate contest, when it's just us and the devil. And the devil hates to lose. "

― Barbara Nickless , Ambush (Sydney Rose Parnell, #3)

10 " We were the marines the other Marines avoided. The pariahs, the bad-luck charms. The ones no one wanted to risk being near. As if we didn't just process death. As if we brought it. "

― Barbara Nickless , Ambush (Sydney Rose Parnell, #3)

11 " Marines don't cry. "

― Barbara Nickless , Ambush (Sydney Rose Parnell, #3)

12 " Hope is not a game plan. "

― Barbara Nickless , Ambush (Sydney Rose Parnell, #3)

13 " The only way you feel safe in a relationship is if you feel free to leave it. "

― Barbara Nickless , Ambush (Sydney Rose Parnell, #3)

14 " You can do everything for the right reasons, and still fuck it up. "

― Barbara Nickless , Ambush (Sydney Rose Parnell, #3)

15 " God teaches forgiveness. But he first cleaned house. "

― Barbara Nickless , Ambush (Sydney Rose Parnell, #3)

16 " Nina Simone wafted into the room. Cohen had queued up what I thought of as his deep-thinking playlist and piped it through the built-in sound system. I loved the great women of jazz. Simone, Holiday, Vaughan. "

― Barbara Nickless , Ambush (Sydney Rose Parnell, #3)

17 " A war in five senses. Blood, sweat, tears, dust, pain. "

― Barbara Nickless , Ambush (Sydney Rose Parnell, #3)

18 " Memories swirled through my head like leaves caught in a storm, urging me to a distant place, another time. "

― Barbara Nickless , Ambush (Sydney Rose Parnell, #3)

19 " Maybe it's not you I'm afraid of." I touched a single lock of Dougie's hair, "Maybe it's me. "

― Barbara Nickless , Ambush (Sydney Rose Parnell, #3)

20 " What had flowed not just under the bridge, but over it until the bridge was no longer even there. "

― Barbara Nickless , Ambush (Sydney Rose Parnell, #3)