Author: Ace Atkins

Cites

• Elmore Leonard (1)
  • IN: The Lost Ones (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A man is sent to war and taught how to kill; but after, the unlearning of it is left up to him
    FROM: Last Stand at Saber River, (1959), Novel, US
• NULL (5)
  • IN: The Lost Ones (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When you're on the march, act the way you would if sneaking up on a deer. See the enemy first.
    FROM: Rogers' Rangers Standing Order No.3, (1759), NULL, UK
  • IN: The Broken Places (1990) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Don't ever take a chance if you don't have to
    FROM: Rogers' Rangers Standing Order No.5, (1759), NULL, UK
  • IN: The Forsaken (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If somebody's trailing you, make a circle, come back onto yout own tracks and ambush the folks that aim to ambush you
    FROM: Rogers' Rangers Standing Order No.17, (1759), NULL, UK
  • IN: The Innocents (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: No matter whether we travel in big parties or little ones, each party has to keep a scout twenty yards ahead, twenty yards on each flank, and twenty yards on the rear so the main body can't be surprised and wiped out.
    FROM: Rogers' Rangers Standing Order No.12, (1759), NULL, UK
  • IN: The Fallen (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every night you'll be told where to meet if surrounded by a superior force.
    FROM: Rogers' Rangers Standing Order No. 13 according to Kenneth Roberts's Northwest Passage, (1937), NULL, US
• Ernest Hemingway (1)
  • IN: The Broken Places (1990) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of those, you can be sure it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.
    FROM: A Farewell to Arms, (1929), Novel, US
• Van Tilburg Clark, Walter (1)
  • IN: The Forsaken (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Most men are afraid of being thought cowards than of anything else, and a lot more afraid of being thought physical cowards than moral ones
    FROM: The Ox-Bow Incident, (1940), Novel, US
• William Faulkner (1)
  • IN: The Innocents (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much , had seen too much, I was a child no longer now; innocence and childhood were orever lost, forever gone from me.
    FROM: The Reivers, (1962), Book, US
• Chris Knight (1)
  • IN: The Redeemers (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Render unto Caesar no more than you got to Keep the Lord in your heart, and keep your powder dry. But do you good in mean time While you're waiting on a good time, draw the line.
    FROM: In the Meantime, (2012), Song, US
• Robert Rogers (2)
  • IN: The Redeemers (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If we take prisoners, we keep 'em separate till we have had time to examine them, so they can't cook up a story between 'em.
    FROM: Roger's Rangers Standing Order No. 5, (1757), Legal Document, US
  • IN: The Ranger (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Don't ever march home the same way. Take a different route so you won't be ambushed.
    FROM: Roger's Rangers Standing Order No. 11, (1757), Legal Document, US
• G. K. Chesterton (1)
  • IN: The Ranger (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• John D. MacDonald (1)
  • IN: The Fallen (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There are no one hundred percent heroes.
    FROM: Cinnamon Skin, (1982), Novel, US